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Christianity is a Call to Every Kind of Freedom Not to Bludgeon Others With Legalism…Rigby’s Podcast

Posted in Dr. Jim Rigby, Gender and Sexual Identities, Lessons for Living, Mystery, Non-Mainstream Religion, Non-Mainstream Theology, Podcast, Political Candidates, Political Commentary, Politics, Religion, Sacred Message, Sexuality, Theology, tagged Bludgeon with Legalism, Christianity, Freedom, God, Homosexuality, josephudo, Legalism, Religion, religion bloggers, Slavery on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For Freedom, Christ Has Set You Free My response josephudo and other bloggers like him, is found in this recent Rigby Podcast. Have a listen. Ashtora, itsawonderfulife, ashtoraspeaks, love is not…

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Another Rigby Podcast: As Great As We Are America…God Likes Other People Too!

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The last in Dr. Rigby’s series of coupling the writings of Eastern Taoism together with the texts of Western Christianity, managing to unravel the mysteries of life in under twenty minutes.

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Red, Green and Brown, The Earth is Where Truth Is or What is It You’ve Traded Your Real Worth For?

Posted in Christianity and Taoism, Dr. Jim Rigby, Lessons for Living, Love Is, Love Is Not, Nature Religion, Non-Mainstream Religion, Non-Mainstream Theology, Podcast, Religion, Sacred Message, Spiritual Renewal, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Taoism, Taoism and Christianity, Truth, Uncategorized, tagged Abused, afraid of losing ourselves, asked where his authority came from, Biggest Problem You Now Face In Life, Brown symbolizes the earth our common ground, Buddah touched the earth, but rather stories celebrating the basic irresistabilit, By honoring the Parent who nourishes, By willing not to be a King, Can't find self-esteem in the eyes of another person, Can't quench your thirst with a mirage, Christ in his humility, Christian texts can be hard to hear, clutches to our own being, Constricted notion of self, Disowned humanity, essentially we choke ourselves into numbness, Every little afront will rip your heart out, Green represents Life itself, How dejected, How nebulous as the ocean, How worthless everything is if you don't realize what y, Humility brings us to a basic sanity, I alone am bereft, I alone am stubborn and uncouth, I alone am vague and uncertain, I alone seem confused, I am everything, I am nothing, I desire to be uniquely different from others, I have nothing, If your own heart is numb, It's A Wonderful Life! Dr. Rigby, It's incredibly easy to be upstaged, Johnny Cash, Joyful are the masses, leave the foam of all our problems, Literary addict, Masses all have a purpose, Motionless am I, Mystics, Naked, Nature Religion, Nobody wants to be an orphan, not for your books, Not having his own worth effected, Notes from recent podcast, Podcast, Problem is Ego, Real Love is Being Your Authentic Self, Red Green Brown, Red symbolizes the common blood of our humanity, Religious journey is getting back to your heart, Revealed our own humanity to us, Rigby refutes this interpretation, Risk being rejected if we're to be authentic, Sacred text from Taoism, Sage speaks, Scripture doesn't give us miracle stories, self-love, settle into the broth of reality, so enraptured by someone, suffering from an essential disorientation, that's where truth is, The Humility of Christ Podcast, The Life in You is the Most Valuable Thing You Have, then you've been in touch with a much more important pl, there was a tenderness in your heart, this sacred message has been heard all over the world, took us to our worth as human beings, trade away our true selves for higher positions, unlike mainstream theologians, Unlike Rick Warren Joel Olsteen or other mega church pu, Value your life over any object, water into wine, We can lose our true self, We've heard Christian texts in such bad ways, what else has meaning in the world, What would you trade it for, when asked who you were, When we pile up "stuff", When we think our worth increases, When we try to live in images, When you began this journey, When you don't know your own value, Where you can feel again, Whoever wins the rat race is still a rat right, Wound that's hard to deal with, You are loved, You can have it all My empire of dirt, you couldn't answer on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Have you ever been so enraptured by someone that when asked who you were, you couldn’t answer for just a second? I hope you’ve been that close to somebody before. When you have, you’ve been in touch with a much more important place.

When you began this journey, he says, there was a tenderness in your heart….Much of the religious journey is getting back to your heart, simply making it where you can feel again. This may not sound religious, but what else has meaning in the world, if your own heart is numb? he asks.

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The Reverend Dr. Jim Rigby Stands Out Even Though He Doesn’t Pastor a “Mega Church” Like Saddleback

Posted in Politics, Religion, Theology, tagged Joel Olsteen, Mega Church, Pastor Rick Warren, Presidential Candidates, Reverend Dr. Jim Rigby, Saddleback, Spiritual Leadership, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, What is truth? on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

While Joan Walsh concerned herself with the merits of our nation’s current Presidential Candidates, I was more stunned by “Pastor Rick Warren” and his apparent lack of credentials, character, integrity, and authenticity, in stark comparison to the Reverend Dr. Jim Rigby, who stands out in any convention of religious leaders, regardless of how “mega” their churches [...]

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Finding the Eternal in the Temporal or The Empty Vessel Never Filled

Posted in Agnosticism, Atheism, Christianity, Eastern, Mystery, Pantheism, Philosophy, Religion, Spiritual Renewal, Taoism, Theology, Western, tagged Agnostic, Agnosticism, Atheism, Austin, Austin Churches, Bubbles, Dr. Jim Rigby, Dream Within A Dream, Eastern, Edgar Allan Poe, Finding the Eternal in the Temporal, harsh criticism, Inform and Transform Our Lives, Merge Taoist and Christian Teachings, Metaphors, Metaphors and Poetry, Mystery, Mystery Religion, Pantheism, Podcast, Poe, Providing Richness and Presentness, Religion, Religious figure, Rev. Dr. Jim Rigby, Reverend Dr. Jim Rigby, Sandcastles, Spiritual Renewal, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Stories, Taoism, The Empty Vessel Never Filled, Theologians, TX, Wells Branch Church, Western, What you need to hear in order to heal on August 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This podcast is his most recent teaching, given live before a mixed audience of Christians, Atheists, Agnostics, Pantheists, Buddhists, Taoists, and persons of just about any religious or anti-religious perspective. Worth bearing in mind, perhaps, is the fact that his audience assembled themselves in a small building, located in Austin’s northern Wells Branch suburb, called St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, where justice advocate and often controversial Dr. Rigby has taught for more than twenty years, for the specific purpose of hearing him [Reverend Dr. Jim Rigby] speak on his chosen topic.

His teachings have brought him oftentimes, harsh criticism from theologians…

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