What We Believe

1. We see God as a presence that is everywhere, not a person.
2. We believe that everyone’s life is eternal and forever expanding. We call God by different names such as Spirit or First Cause to help eliminate the gender prejudice associated with God the Father, and to see more accurately that there is One Life back of everything that lives.
3. We practice and teach people how to pray. We identify God’s power as a loving and perfect intelligence from which everything is created.
4. We depend upon the goodness of God to internally guide and direct our actions with compassion, love and peace. We believe evil is ignorance and that people can act in an evil manner because of their ignorance.
5. We do not, however, believe evil is inherent in anything or a power separate from God.
6. We study the writings and lives of great spiritual thinkers and leaders such as Jesus, Moses, Emerson, Thoreau, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Buddha, Gandhi, Carl Jung, William James and more, in order to learn of Spirit’s unlimited power for good. We were founded by Dr. Ernest Holmes in the 1930’s. He based his work on the teachings of Jesus, Eastern Philosophy, and the above mentioned writers and leaders.
7. We see similarities in our teaching with distinguished personalities such as Deepak Chopra, Joseph Campbell, Wayne Dyer, Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey and many others.
8. We emphasize and believe God to be a Universal Power for good that we can use to live peaceful, productive and creative lives. We believe that all of life is sacred, eternal and divinely guided.

Quotes about what we believe...

• Change Your Thinking… Change Your Life!
  ~ Dr. Ernest Holmes
• Imagine all the people living life in peace.
  ~ John Lennon
• Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing or right-doing there is an open field. I’ll meet you there.
  ~Rumi
• There is a power for good in the Universe and we can use it.
  ~Dr. Ernest Holmes
• People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive...
  ~Joseph Campbell
• It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
  ~Maya Angelou

A Fresh Approach...

1. Our teaching is a fresh approach that is a practical and down-to-earth way to understand God, Nature, the Universe and your relationship to it.
2. Our philosophy is a spiritual path of cause and effect that gives you a solid way to think and a functional way to change your life.
3. The Sunday message is always logical, offering a practical path to God using prayer as the primary tool to strengthen your faith, heal your life and expand your experience of love.

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