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Spiritual Growth Program Materials "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you." (Matthew 7:7)

Living your Religion - Spiritual Growth with the New Church!

The New Church offers a variety of programs designed to assist people in applying God’s teachings to their everyday lives. Using step-by-step modules, available on www.newchurch.org,  these courses guide participants towards becoming more spiritually evolved human beings. Whether you are participating within a group framework or on your own, this site is your link to program materials for Rise Above It, Foundations, and The Journey.

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Journey Program Sermons and Papers used in Boynton Beach

Shift: Small Changes. Big Difference. (A New Church Journey Program)

  Orientation to the spiritual meaning

• General notes
• Setting the stage

  Week 1 - Shift of Awareness: notice the conflicts

• Sermon - Getting Our Priorities Straight  by the Rev. Kurt Horigan Asplundh (Which is first in the church, love and charity or truth and faith? Doctrine teaches that love is first in end but truth is first in time.)
• Resources for week 1 daily readings
• Handout by the Rev. Kurt Horigan Asplundh with additional readings.

  Week 2 - Shift of Perspective: Remember the Lord is here, now

• Sermon - Surely The Lord Is In This Place (even though we do not know it. Chiefly He is present in our freedom, in His Word, and especially when we are receptive to Him.)
• Resources for week 2 daily readings &  with additional readings

  Week 3 - Shift of Focus: keep in mind who you want to be

• Sermon - Serving For Rachel - Focusing Spiritual Goals (As Jacob’s focus shifted to marrying Rachel, so our heavenly goals come to focus on loving and applying specific truths of the Word to life.)
• Resources for week 3 daily readings

Week 4 - Shift of Expectations: have patience with the process

• Sermon - Keep Loving Spiritual Things (Expectations of how ready you are for heaven may shift, but don’t let go of the Lord’s goals for you: keep diligently following the Lord.)
• Resources for week 4 daily readings

Week 5 - Shift of Motivations: recognize when it's time to make a change

• Sermon - Rise Up And Return (When we see our mixed motives are hindering our spiritual progress, we are ready to shift to purer motives.)
• Resources for week 5 daily readings

Week 6 - Shift of Confidence: hold on through the wrestling

• Sermon - Confidence in Goodness (To change from learning truth to living by it, our confidence needs to shift to a confidence in goodness–that it is good to live by truth.)
• Resources for week 6 daily readings

Week 7 - Shift of Heart: show your love

• Love Takes The Lead (By learning and living according to them, truths must be prepared step by step into an order that good can flow into, for love to take the lead in life.)
• Resources for week 7 daily readings

Week 8 - Conclusion

• Return To The House Of God (The Lord made Himself the House of God so that in receiving Him in ourselves, we could have the House of God in us, and He could dwell with us.)