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https://akronalliance.sermon.net/22495896 Pastor Gus Brown

https://akronalliance.sermon.net/22489125 Pastor Gus Brown

Staying in the middle lane going down the road of life is easy as long as you don’t have to make a decision about 'religion,' 'faith,' or 'god.' As long as there’s road ahead of you and you’re still moving along, there’s no reason to change lanes…that is, until that neutral middle-of-the-road lane ends. Then the question is — “Will I be taking the left exit or the right exit?”

Is this you? Are you driving down the road of your life in that uncommitted center lane, never having made up your mind or even seriously thinking at one point that comfortable “I don’t have to choose” lane is still available?

Here is a Real-World Warning that you Cannot Afford To Ignore!

That seeming endless road of life WILL end, and it is up to you to decide when it ends which exit you will take. No one sends you to one exit or another, you will either Consciously or Un-Consciously make that choice.

Friend, please make that choice before it is too late, or You Will Be LEFT BEHIND.

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god.

(part two)

other times I believe in god but it doesn't echo the roots in the same way as I do at other times. I was raised christian and I think that that is one version of god that will always be in my mind. but I think there's another, that maybe is my own. the marks of the lives that came before me and taught me will always leave a mark.

but when I was born, there still came new life. I think maybe this one is my own, it came from my own life as it blossomed through the cracks in my hands. 

so, this is the other version of god in my mind, when I don't see god as in memory, as i was raised ,

in these times, god is everything, and in every thing. and god isn't a person, nor exactly is god an "it", but the real being of everything and every idea and movement and feeling. god is all of this romanticism even in a cruel world. the reason why there can be pleasure in pain and pain in pleasure. god is also in pain, in all the despair. that god is meaning. I think this version of god; is simply everything.

the ideas and the world and the very feeling of being in it. that god is every interpretation and perspective, and person, and all the values and ideas i can hold within my mind. the very fact that I can see it, that i can think of it. I think god is the space in our brains that is thought. that god is consciousness. 

I think god is that last magic of missing understanding that is a search for meaning in everything. the invisible strand of red string that is our thoughts, that connects everything- that is god. the stretchy and stiff and stringy and sinewy connection, as well as the twirling of it, a tangle jumbled mess that makes a pulsing hole in the center of everyone and everything.

god

(part 1)

I don't believe but I'm not quite exactly an unbeliever. I mean, most of the time I don't believe in god, but at the same time I think I kinda do. 

I grew up in a christian home and when I think of my idea of god I think of that little joke quote i read Bruce Springsteen once said when answering a question- "once a catholic, always a catholic". the thing he was talking about at the time was mostly unrelated to what I'm trying to say now. but I think that I can't quite get rid of it, what I was raised believing in. 

so I think I'm a half believer because I don't know if there's a god for certain and I think most of the time it's probably not. but I think sometimes I do believe, and I believe in the biblical, christian god but just not in a biblical way. 

I don't see him as all powerful. 

-not so perfect and wise.