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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about American, However, Lord with the genre: Religion & Spirituality, New Age & Spirituality?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'My Descent Into Death'
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conversations.value: Provide the first three paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: My Descent Into Death
  Angels don't make mistakes, because they communicate directly with God. Their will and desire are the same as God's. We can ask God to send angels to guide us and protect us. We can ask the angels to teach us God's will. We can't make the angels appear to us or do anything that is not God's will.
  There are different kinds of angels with different responsibilities and different attributes. One angel may accompany a child, another has the responsibility for a city, another a nation, another a world, another a universe. We might think that the mighty angels are gods, but they don't think of themselves that way. They know they are servants of God participating in the divine plan. Angels love God with their whole being. They desire nothing but to serve God. Angels can experience what we think and feel. When this is consistent with God's will, they are joyful. When we are opposed to God's will, they suffer emotionally. If we knew how empathetic our angels are with us, we would want to please them and God. We would never want to do anything that would distress them, but we do. The Spirit of God is the spirit of the angels. This same Spirit is in us, leading us to truth and love. When we allow the Holy Spirit to guide us, we are in harmony with the angels and God. Then we become like the angels, messengers of God.
  The best word to describe an angel is compassion. As we live by the Holy Spirit, our compassion grows. The compassion of the angels for us becomes our compassion for all people. We discover that the love of God is tough love. The love we learn is complex and difficult. Just as the angels refuse to control us, we understand that we shouldn't control one another. We can try to influence, but we can't control spiritual development. Worldly things we have power over, and we are to use this power for good. Spiritual things we can only influence.
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conversations.value: Provide another paragraph.
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conversations.value: Our pilgrimage is not a journey of time or space, it is a journey into reality. This present moment is where you can and will find God.
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conversations.value: Provide the last three paragraphs.. End with the sentence ' As Jesus so amply demonstrated to us, the only way to grow spiritually is by serving others.'.
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conversations.value: The biggest challenge that I have found in pastoring a church has been raising the consciousness of the congregation toward compassion for people beyond the boundaries of the church. The work of the church is not simply to comfort the members of the church; rather, the work of the church is to be like Christ to the world. The world consists mostly of people who do not know God or Christ and could care less. As Jesus spent his life going out to the world and sending his disciples out into the world, so the church must do likewise. For reasons that I do not fully understand, I have found this difficult for many Christians to appreciate.
  For the past several years I have been leading mission groups to work with the Maya of Belize, Central America. Many of these beautiful people have been marginalized from the global economy to live subsistence lives. We have had the opportunity to significantly impact their lives through improvements to their schools, substantial improvement in their health care, improving their living conditions, and, most important, encouraging their faith development. The overwhelming majority of people that we work with there belong to the Roman Catholic Church, and we have been blessed with a wonderful working relationship between the Catholic Church and a number of different Christian denominations that support this ministry. We experience a sign of the Kingdom of God as we work together without denominational differences. The people who have gone on these mission trips have received spiritual riches from the people that we serve far beyond the material gifts that we bring to them.
  When we make our small sacrifices to serve God, we are encouraged and rewarded by God with spiritual gifts far in excess of what we deserve. This is God's way of raising us to become the children of God we were created to be. As Jesus so amply demonstrated to us, the only way to grow spiritually is by serving others.