posted September 08, 2019 03:10 PM
Joel's wife's name is Victoria (not Esther).
Back in the 80s 90s, I used to like to listen to his dad and mom. Joel and Victoria, as a team, have done much towards presenting a positive gospel message of Hope and Grace. Positivity. Seeing the Beauty and the Help Available within in the battles of life. I'd been watching his astro chart years ago when he went through some Chironic ordeals. He has a beautiful soul, and I appreciate his life, and his work.
TD and I have excellent synastry 
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He is a Gemini, and an incredibly PRAGMATIC person when it comes to applying spirituality into your actual work-a-day life.
btw-- He is NOT in support of astrology.
Just want to make that clear.
You Learn. You Pray. You Listen. And you work.
God adds his blessings to the Work that you do.
Many (nonchristian) entrepreneurs flock to him for counsel and advice in the ways of Capitalism.
Observe asteroid 10895 Aynrand in entrepreneurial-based church leaders.
What I really like about the idea of 'church' is that it provides the (Saturn/Capricorn) skeleton, the bones, an organized established and proven working-model for Community.
It's the Cooperative Village idea. Important in providing safety-network for those involved, with satellite-villages for those villages, as a pod and place for one to Serve in an extended-family concept.
Partnership.
You yourself pledge as member to Give of what you have from your own talents resources and experience, and ideally, you can count on receiving from Others who freely give of their own time and talents to assist any areas with shortfalls, and to further strengthen and develop what IS working "already" for better use.
There is Strength in Numbers.
There is Health and Wisdom in a Multitude of Counselors.
No one should be alone--
as this places them at terrible disadvantage and prey, needing to handle solo-weights that are more than --(or an impossible expectation for)-- an individual to bear by themselves.
The church's ordered and organized system template was designed with compartmentalized functions, to Serve the whole body-- And, with parts of those also in systems with various specialized functions-- for the aggregate whole. The Equipping of the Saints-(members). For spiritual maturation and development (improves everyday individual lives).
Access to Many Hands, make work Burdens Light.
EACH person has a Purpose, and they are embraced and included-- given Welcome and are Utilized as a valued part of the 'Common-Unity'.
People become attracted to various spiritual styles--
For me?..
I'm a SUPER finicky-picky connoisseur when it comes to 'what/who' I choose to listen to-- in order to feed and grow my soul and spirit, and, to education myself.
Music is the FIRST consideration and a door-opener for me!!! haha. Then, the preaching-teaching HAS to be anointed. And I 'know' the difference. LOL
I'm 64yo, and have been on a Quest as a spiritual seeker (I'd say, even from my birth????).
Every congregation has its own personality and group signature, as well as (karmic) lessons to grow through.
{see delineations of types of these in Book of Revelation, last chapter of Bible}
I get so disgusted at some of what I hear in religious/philosophy circles. OFF-path, un-anointed, shallow, BORING??!! lol, and sometimes even pretty ~bizarre.
-- (Said from broad-span of everything I've ever had involvement with. My 'experience bank.')
Looking back on my life, I'd say that the MAIN DRIVING FORCE behind my entire life has Been a Search for God, and to KNOW God Better and Better. It's been THE underlying energy behind ALL that I've ever done. Everything.
It's truly refreshing and nurturing when I can tap into something that TRULY feeds me. And this in turn, enormously helps me to feed Others.
What appeals MOST to me is The Anointing.
When the delineation of the Word, and The Music is blessed/anointed, there is no struggle to digest what's going on.
When The Presence is there, The Holy Spirit opens the message out Within you. The Holy Spirit is the teacher/Teacher that speaks and Validates the truth of what you Hear inside you. You're in the Flow.. and bathed by Holy palpable sub-perceived effluvium substance. Astral humidity bath.
In my lifetime, I've spent quality time in an assortment of kinds of Christian churches.
Was even into eastern philosophy groups for some short whiles in sections of my life.
Had been involved in New Age study groups concurrently with other faith systems, during the time I was an earlier teen through to my 30s.
Spent time as a postulant in R.C. cloistered monastery {mystical}.
Spent a year within a Messianic Jewish congregation.
WHAT a gorgeous experience when (like a phlebotomist, or a mosquito), you are able to Tap-into the Flow of The Spiritual Cosmic Nectar.. and River.
haha.
I guess that also makes me a spiritual addict? You can find/sense God's Presence in sooo many things.
You can come Aware to perceive the GodPixels, like the illuminated pegs on a light-board..
like the individual stars speckled through the night sky.
One of my attractions to astrology {and the Cosmos} had BEEN that it increased my Love for God, and the Majesty He displays through His Works. It enhanced my Worship experience, Glorifying God the Creator, through His Marvelous GENIUS in Ordering the intricate SkyClock.
He gave us (children) a Toy, that has practical applications.
But-- why stop there?
The Toy implies there's a Cosmic Toy&Clock-Maker!!!
Seek the Heart of The Maker-and-Creator of all things that were manifested.
I don't and cannot "worship" the actual rock-planets and the stars as god. These are only a Product of His Creativity.
I Worship 'The Beautiful One' who MADE them.
I can appreciate very much delving into the "mythical archetypes" with stories and traits to be found apparent in modern day human behaviors and personality. Very relevant!!!! (and love the asteroids!!) But (for me) I study not in order to 'worship' these mythic greek roman gods and goddesses, but to explore the incredible synchronicities that are present.
These are only images and ideas, that POINT to the Author of them. Myths, Archetypes-- are Part of God's Artistry and Unique Expressions. INFINITE boundless weave of Beauty.
Again, these are only the various PIXELS and Hints at revealing Who He is--
Oh--- I call God 'He' only because that was my training and orientation for 64 years.
God embraces BOTH the feminine and masculine energetic levels together! God is 'There' as Needed--
{I AM that I-Am .. however you need me to BE in your life}.
God in the Feminine is called the "Well-Breasted One"-- El Shaddai.
God is. And God is a Never-Changing backdrop like the black cloth of Space, that encloses and encompasses Everything!, and is ALWAYS interesting.
He is Detailed, like a spark that glints off the face of a fiery jewel-- always interesting, new, and fresh, never ever boring.
The God who Changes Not, reveals aspects of who he is within me. What is outwardly perceived through the Eyes of my Imagination, is Inwardly there, and Projected.
What is withIN, is recognized withOUT in all I see.
Maybe its hard to describe?
Some say that God is "only" within you..?
But more...
If you think about a Human Being on Earth.
The Human is on the earth,
breathing-in this atmosphere.
Without Atmosphere, ALL is naught.
God Inside and Out--
Without the invisible Air and Atmosphere over us, providing the needed Oxygen, we would NOT exist inside a Human Body.
God is as much a Part of Us as Oxygen.
In Him.. We Live, and Move, and Have our Beingness.
{scripture}
God Within, -- Present IN and OUTSIDE of us --,
is as the marvel of Oxygen-exchanges occurring in the process of Biological Respiration. God is BOTH In my Cells, and In the Air around me.
I Breathe Him. He is in my Cells.
I can feel His Wind.
I am sensitive to the Changes of Personality in His Various Expressions.
It's a TOTALLY Intimate life-giving, life-exchanging Relationship.
When Plugged In,
it's like having an antenna on a TV.
With no antenna Connection?--
life-itself can be bland and ugly.
GOD is the Beauty I find in Living Things--
in the People I see every day {whom He Created}.
When I walk the sidewalks in town, it's such a Joy to Meet-Eyes (spiritually) with Others who are ALSO Plugged in.
They can come from ALL various religious expressions--
(I call eastern a 'religion' too; it's an organized system of beliefs).
When a person has Plugged into an Expression of God, there is a palpable sense-Difference in that person.
Some teachers preachers fail when they see their OWN self as being god. They FORGET that they are here to be Servants and Channels. It's NOT about *them*.. God strives to get Messages THROUGH them. It's about being a vessel. It's about The People they are assigned to Serve.
{That was the edge of mistake and downfall of 1930 Lucifer. We EACH have this indicated in our charts. It stands as an impediment sometimes, until you 'Get' what you're supposed to be and do, with what you are assigned to carry forth into the world.}
Some exalt their own self. Their own name.
They do things 'by' their own arm (unconsciously), and call it "Of God."
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So. I say all those things, being a Life-Long religious INSIDER.
Until you've been IN the "swimming pool" and have experienced 'Wet', then you're an outside-observer and really can't imagine (or judge) the whole experience. Observers can only go by the crispy shallow things they have heard of.
This applies to every kind of Belief System.
Unless you've Walked FAR into the immersion-experience of whatever journey, you're still a tourist reading its brochures and pamphlets?! LOL
You have to have a Direct experience for your own self. I'm not talking church, or rules and doctrines. I'm speaking of the "One-on-One Available".. to tap into-- like the Air you Breathe.
Don't intellectualize it and hold it 'apart' from you, and claim that you Know.
Yeah. There's a LOT OF CRAP found impersonating itself as Belonging to The Christ.
Be a Fruit-Watcher. Know them By The Spirit.
For yourself, YOU have to jump in with Both Feet. Not just on a shallow intellectual Sunday-Christian type of level-- but bring a living breathing expression of "The Christ" in you, into the Week, on your job, and into your EveryDay world.
Everyone was born with a "God Seed" inside them, in their Heart. Everyone has a soul and spirit, and because THIS belongs to Source, it functions and acts as a Tag or Homing-Device installed.
This Device has to be "activated".
That's the Holy Spirit's job {The Awakening Spirit}.
People are sensing it..
The Spirit takes you into a Sense-HighDefinition with ONLINE capabilities.
When you Connect-In,
and with time develop your spirit muscles,
the Spirit's World opens vistas.
metaphorically again.....
You can look at a House from your yard inspecting the outside.
But once you Enter and Explore the house (spirituality), then it becomes another world available to you.
Some people don't know there's an Attic with an elaborate HVAC blowing Oxygenated Air through each of the rooms in the House.
Some remain stilted and in the 'box' of a plain 4 wall room, not knowing that they are a part of a very elaborate Mansion. 
There are a lot of parts of Christianity that people have 'heard' of and react to, without thorough understanding. (Again, the "pool" analogy.. you have to listen to Context, BY someone who Understands it.)
Not every teacher or preacher does..
Just because they wear the outfit, the vestments, the label-- doesn't mean they Know. Awake.
It takes The Spirit to OPEN the Eyes of The Understanding. God chooses.
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(music) E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come (Paul Manz, perf by Kansas City Chorale) [2:57] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCut48BRwEs
(music) God Be in My Head (John Rutter and Cambridge Singers) [1:34] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGMcFt61yjo
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In News--
MANY of the sicknesses and PERVERSIONS still being revealed in the religion churches these past decades, do NOT portray Christ and his message. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater? These are HURTING The People, the Victimized, and Christ's reputation.
God is Cleaning House right now, concerning these. 
GOD... as Living Oxygen !!!!
(music) Breathe (Michael W. Smith, lyrics) [6:32] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-0EgzOWkvc
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