[ggc-urantialist] Re: Golden Gate Circle (SF Bay Area) Weekend Bulletin 3/16/13
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- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:49:00 -0400 (EDT)
GOLDEN GATE CIRCLE
WEEKEND BULLETIN:
March 16, 2013
Spring in Penngrove
Reminders of Upcoming Local and U.S. Events
YaYA Regeneration Conference
A Youth and Young Adult Conference, Gloucester, MA. Thurs, Apr 18-Sun, Apr
21, 2013
Register from: _http://urantianow.com/yaya-regeneration-conference/_
(http://urantianow.com/yaya-regeneration-conference/)
ROB BELL / What We Talk About When We Talk About God
Mar 18, 2013 7:30 PM @ Berkeley Arts & Letters, First Congregational
Church of Berkeley (2345 Channing Way at Dana) Tickets $12 ($5 students) in
advance only; $15 at the door
The Chancel Choir of St. John’s Episcopal Church, with Guests and
Orchestra, performs Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor (K.626) on Sunday, March 24 at
4
pm, under the direction of Ernest Fredric Knell, at St. John’s Episcopal
Church,
1707 Gouldin Road, off Thornhill, in the Montclair District.
“I am singing with this group--should be a nice concert.” (Bettina Gray) ”
-- Orchestra is from the SF Opera orchestra and choir will have opera
chorus members as well.
The United Urantia Family Festival (TUUFF-2013)
to celebrate Jesus/ Michael’s birthday at Yosemite, August 20-24, 2013!
This venue promises to be very special since we will all gather together
at noon on August 21 at the famed “Grizzly Giant” in Mariposa Grove,
believed to be an angelic place on Urantia. Our theme: Celebrating Jesus’
Family,
in the Presence of Angels!
The United Urantia Family Festival 2013 will be a true Jesusonian
family-bonding memorable experience for all the ones who will be present.
Remembrance and Celebration of Jesus' Bestowal: Sunday, March 31
1:00 PM, 4:00 PM Potluck dinner
Place and time: Larry and Elizabeth's home in Bonny Doon
220 Country Estates Terrace, Santa Cruz, Ca 95060
831-425-1882
Healthy Living Expo in Long Beach
Here is an article by Thomas Orjala on his latest outreach efforts in
California. Enjoy!
_http://www.urantiabook.org/_blog/The_Fellowship_and_Dynamic_Outreach_
(http://www.urantiabook.org/_blog/The_Fellowship_and_Dynamic_Outreach)
Courtesy of Andrea Barnes, Outreach Committee, Chair
Abegunde and Jeff Wattles in Nigeria
Abegunde Julius Taiwo’s Facebook message 3/12/13
What are the possibilities of partnership with the Holy Spirit?
Between us and the Holy Spirit, there is no where we cannot go, nothing we
cannot do - the world is not big enough! Is it not?
The Holy Spirit—this is the initial supermind bestowal, and it unfailingly
appears in all bona fide human personalities. This ministry to a
worship-craving and wisdom-desiring mind creates the capacity to self-realize
the
postulate of human survival, both in theologic concept and as an actual and
factual personality experience. ~ The Urantia Book, (92:0.4).
Our obligation is to live by, and to keep in step with, The Spirit! Romans
Chapter Eight states quite clearly that we live one of two ways – either
by the Spirit, or by the sinful nature. The truth in this is, that when we
desire to live Gods way, “Living in the Spirit” is the only option. To live
in accordance with the Spirit, “our minds must be set on what the Spirit
desires” (v.5) and we obtain “life and peace” when “our minds are
controlled by the Spirit”(v.6). So then, we “have an obligation - but it is
not to
the sinful nature, to live according to it. For if you live according to
the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the
misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit
of God are sons of God” (v.12-14).
"Be not deceived by those who come saying here is the kingdom or there is
the kingdom, for my Father's kingdom concerns not things visible and
material. And this kingdom is even now among you, for where the spirit of God
teaches and leads the soul of man, there in reality is the kingdom of heaven.
And this kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy
Spirit. " ~ Jesus, The Urantia Book, (137:8.9)
I am re-educating myself to adopt the attitude of “Amaze me, Lord!” In
other words, not to be limited in my thinking as to the possibilities for my
life in God, but to “enlarge the place of my tent, to stretch my tent
curtains wide, to not hold back, to lengthen my cords, and to strengthen my
stakes” (Isaiah 54:2 .
What about you!
Do you see yourself as a valued partner of the Holy Spirit, ready and
willing to tap into the gifts and potential within you, to bring glory to your
Heavenly Father, and to live a life of seeing His will being bought to pass
where ever you go together?
In partnership, our obligation is to live by, but to keep in step with,
The Spirit! (Galatians 5:2.
The presence of the Holy Spirit of the Universe Daughter of the Infinite
Spirit, of the Spirit of Truth of the Universe Son of the Eternal Son, and
of the Adjuster-spirit of the Paradise Father in or with an evolutionary
mortal, denotes symmetry of spiritual endowment and ministry and qualifies
such a mortal consciously to realize the faith-fact of son ship with God. ~
The Urantia Book, (34:5.4) .
May we “humble ourselves before the Lord and He will lift us up” (James
4:10.) Amen!
Abegunde Julius Taiwo.
Fruit Heaven (Chilambo)
From the Mailbag …
“I sure hope you and many locals plan to attend the Rob Bell show Monday
eve in Berkeley. Woosh I could go… Here’s a modified phrase from his
latest book, re the term “open”:
“Being open-- beyond all the ancient, primitive, superstitious thinking
amidst a science of reason and logic and evidence. What does God have to do
with the new challenges we're facing and knowledge we're acquiring? Quite
a lot. It turns out the universe is way, way weirder than any of us first
thought. Weirdness will demand that we be open.”
“So if you’re going and are planning to present him a Urantia Book,
please remind him of the phrase, “weirdness will demand that we be open.” From
Pamela Chaddock ;)
The Boat
(By Kabir, translator Robert Bly’s title)
The Guest is inside you, and also inside me;
you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed.
We are all struggling; none of us has gone far.
Let your arrogance go, and look around inside.
The blue sky opens out farther and farther,
the daily sense of failure goes away,
the damage I have done to myself fades,
a million suns come forward with light,
when I sit firmly in that world.
I hear bells ringing that no one has shaken,
inside "love" there is more joy than we know of,
rain pours down, although the sky is clear of clouds,
there are whole rivers of light.
The universe is shot through in all parts by a single sort of love.
How hard it is to feel that joy in all our four bodies!
Those who hope to be reasonable about it fail.
The arrogance of reason has separated us from that love.
With the word "reason" you already feel miles away.
How lucky Kabir is, that surrounded by all this joy
he sings inside his own little boat.
His poems amount to one soul meeting another.
These songs are about forgetting dying and loss.
They rise above both coming in and going out.
Thanks for tuning in and reading our news. And please -- Stay tuned!
Dave Holt, Communications Chair for GGC
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