Tag: abundant life

TOS070 Receiving Blessings by Sharing the Abundant Life (Part 1)

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TOS070 Receiving Blessings by Sharing the Abundant Life (part 1)  For audio TOS070: Receiving Blessings by Sharing the Abundant Life (Part I) | Listen Notes

Blessing comes forth when those who seek the Face of God share what they have been given.  Patti Brunner shares how she learned to test the Lord per Malachi 3:10 and how the Lord responded with blessings and an abundant life.  This story of learning to trust God through tithing shows the fulfillment of the Parable of the Talents and the Lord’s command in Luke Chapter 6:38 “Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure packed together, shaken down and overflowing, will be poured into your lap”.

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TOS069 Walk Among the Needy

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TOS069 Walk Among the Needy 

With Patti Brunner.  When stress attacks the weak, the needy, it takes the intercession of others to bring the light of dawn into the situation.    Wherever you are in the world there is a need greater than your own.  Compared to most of the world, America is not poor.  But poverty of spirit does not use financial wealth or “need” as its barometer and measure.  The fruit of Christianity is a desire to take care of the needs of others. “Untold riches” is not based on money but on the Word of God.  Managing the taking care of the needy is a responsibility of the Church leaders and that sometimes it is an overwhelming task.

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TOS058 Basics of the Laity’s Role as Priest, Prophet and King

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TOS058 Basics of Faith VI: Priest, Prophet, and King For audio  TOS058: Basics of Faith VI – Priest, Prophet, and King | Listen Notes

Join Patti Brunner and Truth of the Spirit to explore Basics of Faith with the Basics of the Laity’s Role as Priest, Prophet and King.  Jesus provides the example for us to lead an abundant life as Priest, Prophet, and King.  Jesus is the High Priest. There is a ministerial priesthood and a common priesthood.  A priest is someone who connects man to God and God to man.  According to our baptism, that is one of our duties as a Christian.  What’s a prophet?  A prophet is someone who hears the voice of God and shares what God says.  What is a King?  Someone in charge of others by royal birthright, and their duty is to protect, provide and expand the kingdom and to be a good steward.  Jesus gives us the example.

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TOS052 Facing Finals Session III: Preparing for a Happy Death and Eternal Life

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TOS052 Facing Finals Session III: Preparing for a Happy Death and Eternal Life  For audio TOS052: Facing Finals III – Preparing for a Happy Death and Eternal LIfe | Listen Notes

Join Patti Brunner and Truth of the Spirit for concluding Facing Finals Session 3:Preparing for a Happy Death and Eternal Life.  Saint Anthony of Padua wrote that “Nothing is more certain than death and nothing more uncertain than the day and hour of our death.”  Sue Yarbrough taught children, “The happiest day of your life is the day you die and get to go to heaven!”  In this Facing Finals episode of Truth of the Spirit, Patti Brunner shares that a happy death does not mean an ‘easy’ death.  In fact death surrounded by great suffering can still be a happy death. 

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TOS050 Facing Finals Session 1: Bucket List & Forgiveness

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TOS050 Facing Finals Session 1: Bucket List & Forgiveness   For audio TOS050: Facing Finals I – Bucket List & Forgiveness | Listen Notes

Join Patti Brunner and Truth of the Spirit guest Dc. John Pate for Facing Finals Session 1:   Bucket List & Forgiveness.  Do you have a “Bucket List” somewhere that needs to be refreshed?  As weather seasons change, we can see the same rhythm take place in our lives.  In the winter of our lives it may be more difficult to complete various tasks.  Take up those challenges and chores and see how completing your own tasks can then benefit others.  The steps you must take to prepare for “final days” are similar for everyone.  Not to worry but to prepare. 

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TOS025 Duties of A Christian

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TOS025 Duties of a Christian , for audio: TOS025: The Duties of a Christian – Truth of the Spirit (podcast) | Listen Notes   

The “Duties of a Christian” episode of Truth of the Spirit with Patti Brunner reminds us that we are not alone in our relationship with God.  We are not alone in the Church.  And so we need to know how to get along with each other in the Church.  That’s why God, through the Fathers of the Church, gave all Christians rules to follow.  These Church rules are called Canon Law.  

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