Another Rigby Podcast: As Great As We Are America…God Likes Other People Too!
September 6, 2008 by itsawonderfulife
Take The Lowest Place or What Does It Really Mean to “Surrender”?
Dr. James Rigby
The last in Dr. Rigby’s series of coupling the writings of Eastern Taoism together with the texts of Western Christianity, in which he manages to unravel the mysteries of life in under twenty minutes.
It’s important to me that my readers know this man, this pastor, who has been faithful to one path called Truth for his enitre life, dedicated to one congregation called St. Andrew’s for more than twenty-five years, and committed fully to equipping humanity to live out their lives fully, in ways that press us towards our highest compassion, our deepest love, and our most authentic selves. Unlike any theologian, pastor, minister, evangelist, televangelist I’ve ever known, he’s not selling anything. He’s not after our pocketbooks. He’s not after fame and wealth. He doesn’t dress in expensive suits or drive expensive cars or even own a home–he’s more like the “Columbo” of ministers, living a modest and unassuming life. He’s on this planet to do the work of justice; Dr. Rigby does so, every day of his life, with utter humility and grace. He’s real, he’s funny, he’s deep and everytime he speaks, he articulates what most of us can’t even begin to put into words. I am so grateful for this teacher, his life, his gifts that he has surrendered on behalf of the greater good of and for us all. {More on Dr. Rigby and his podcasts can be found on http://ashtoraspeaks.wordpress.com]
Master of storytelling, using metaphors and images from life in addition the symbols of the ages, Rigby attempts to help each of us to understand the concept of ‘Surrender’ in its deepest, most valuable context. With the intimacy he shares with those who listen, self-evident, whether you actually “get this” or not, you’ll find this teacher’s insights easy to listen to, thought provoking and entertaining. You can write him, Dr. Jim Rigby with your questions and comments: jrigby0000@aol.com He always takes the time to write back.
The spoon never tastes the soup; because it is not porous [the spoon] misses out on tasting the soup…so can we, if we don’t open every pore to the gift of this day and the next day….Rigby, 2008
[for Carol Creel's blog on Surrender, refer to www.lifeworks-marketing.com]
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Another Rigby Podcast: As Great As We Are America…God Likes Other People Too!
September 6, 2008 by itsawonderfulife
Take The Lowest Place or What Does It Really Mean to “Surrender”?
Dr. James Rigby
The last in Dr. Rigby’s series of coupling the writings of Eastern Taoism together with the texts of Western Christianity, in which he manages to unravel the mysteries of life in under twenty minutes.
Master of storytelling, using metaphors and images from life in addition the symbols of the ages, Rigby attempts to help each of us to understand the concept of ‘Surrender’ in its deepest, most valuable context. With the intimacy he shares with those who listen, self-evident, whether you actually “get this” or not, you’ll find this teacher’s insights easy to listen to, thought provoking and entertaining. You can write him, Dr. Jim Rigby with your questions and comments: jrigby0000@aol.com He always takes the time to write back.
Posted in Christianity, Christianity and Taoism, Commentary, Dr. Jim Rigby, Eastern, Lessons for Living, Mystery, Nature Religion, Non-Mainstream Religion, Non-Mainstream Theology, Pantheism, Podcast, Religion, Spiritual Renewal, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Taoism, Taoism and Christianity, Theology, Western | Tagged A God in charge of granting wishes, A little thing called reality that we're trying to harm, A spoon never tastes the soup, At the end of it I'm sorry we die, Austin TX, Baptized into the River of Life, Buddhism, Carol Creel on Surrender, Combustion we call Life, Doing the work of Justice, Dr. James Rigby, Eastern Taoism, Einstein, Einstein went place physicists had not gone yet, Email from someone having just started a twelve-step pr, Even though we live about 2000 miles apart, everytime he speaks, Flowing Water, Go Deeper, God doesn't usually get a word in, he articulates the ineffable, He' more like the Columbo of minister, he's funny, He's my pastor, He's real, http://ashtoraspeaks.wordpress.com, I adore myself, I don't see God with flesh-on, I have taken form but I am still One, If you come to your real life you will know how to live, images, Insights, It Doesn't Take Much To Throw It All Off, It is the burning, It's a mistake to surrender responsibility for life, jrigby0000@aol.com, Like the sugar in the juice of the sugar cane, Living Water, Mathematical Truths must be written in us, Matter gets into a chain reaction that we call life, Merge Taoist and Christian Teachings, Metaphors, Misery of the Peasants Doesn't Matter, Missing the Point, No matter how strong you are nature is stronger, No matter where we are, Not after fame and wealth, Not after our pocketbooks, Not Selling Anythin, On this planet for Justice and Truth, One Cancer Cell is A Problem, Podcast, Received an email, Religion is intended to unite those parts of yourselves, Renunciation of the temptation to possess basic goodnes, Repentance or Renunciation, River of Life, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Storytelling, Surrender, Symbol of Baptism, Symbols and Rituals are ways of, symbols of the ages, Terrified to be Emptied, Thanks to podcasts, That's our home, The flame as life, The I Am Sayings Where Jesus Teaches on Behalf of That, The last of his series, The light as consciousness, The rich the beautiful the powerful want the field want, The stone rejected becomes the most important stone, The Whole Universe is Yours and Mine, The wick as the material world, There is no life if the candle blows itself out so it c, Think about God in non-theistic ways, Think of life and nature as also being sacred, To Live in the Wholeness You Have to Give Up Those Part, Unravel Mysteries, Water is good because it takes the lowest place, We are able to listen, We repent of whatever separates us from others, Western Christianity, What does it mean to surrender to Western models of God, When you walk out of here and see the Stranger as Famil, Wisdom Teachings, You cannot make a personal possession out of the basic, Your Body Isn't Logical | No Comments Yet
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