Mile Hi Church Podcast

Four-Week Sunday SeriesBack To Basics 2024Four Spiritual Rites of ThrivingSun., Jan. 14From Without To WithinThe Power Within Youwith Michelle MedranoThere is no greater rite of passage in the spiritual life than when you learn not to just seek a power outside of you, but to nurture and accept that it is also within you.This awareness helps us move from victimhood and blame to one of cocreation and positive responsibility. It also assists us in understanding life isn’t something happening to us but something we play a part in creating, for better or for ill.The spiritual life never requires we go without, but we learn to turn within and learn by doing so. Blessings then begin to reveal themselves all around us.

Four-Week Sunday SeriesBack To Basics 2024Four Spiritual Rites of ThrivingSun., Jan. 7From Broken To WholeThere Is Nothing Wrong With You  with Josh ReevesAlthough Religious Science celebrates the Golden Thread in all the common faith paths—Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and their many branches—there are some things that are unique about us and what we believe.The world is fundamentally good and sacred.Although brought up in a collective consciousness of separateness and violence, we are not born of sin or separation. We are born whole and complete.We are here not only to learn but to thrive.Explore what it’s like to graduate from the school of hard knocks into a new level of being that embraces a thriving life in a world made for good. There is nothing wrong with you!

Are you ready to step into the new year with delight, or will you drag past mistakes, blunders, and absurdities with you into each new day, like Ebenezer Scrooge traveling through his past? How can you learn to leave what doesn’t serve you behind? Learn tools to help you embrace each day with its new moments and potential, knowing every day is the best day in the year.

In this episode, our lead ministers, Michelle Medrano and Josh Reeves discuss rituals for the new year.

The Real Gift of Christmas with Josh Reeves

Along with celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas is a season for personal reflection and actualization. It is an opportunity to connect with the Christ self, the mystical nature of our inner essence, and to sense the potential for renewal and dynamic leaps forward. The soul of Christmas invites us to step forth as instruments of transformation by expressing our love and shining our light.

Two-Week Sunday SeriesDo You Believe in Magic? Part IIwith Josh ReevesSun., Dec. 10Robert Anton Wilson hit on some cynical truths when he pointed out that human beings live in their myths and endure their realities. There are moments when the sense of family relationships being as brittle as that glass teetering at the edge of the kids' table is what happens when the hope for holiday cheer transforms into holiday stress. Whoever says magic isn’t real is engaging in sleight of hand. We learn of Christmas magic through our great myths and stories, whether they are religious or in television and film. Even if the stories may be fiction, what they teach is real.

Two-Week Sunday SeriesDo You Believe in Magic? Part Iwith Josh ReevesSun., Dec. 3Robert Anton Wilson hit on some cynical truths when he pointed out that human beings live in their myths and endure their realities. There are moments when the sense of family relationships being as brittle as that glass teetering at the edge of the kids' table is what happens when the hope for holiday cheer transforms into holiday stress. Whoever says magic isn’t real is engaging in sleight of hand. We learn of Christmas magic through our great myths and stories, whether they are religious or in television and film. Even if the stories may be fiction, what they teach is real.

Two-Week Sunday SeriesFinding a Truth That Is Truewith Michelle MedranoMany of the issues that arise between hearts have to do with the perceptions we have about what is true of us, life, and the Universe. Learning to navigate this realm, peacefully, can be challenging and requires profound spiritual maturity.Sun., Nov. 26When Your Truth Is Not MineJust as we stand near a field of diverse wildflowers and feel great appreciation and beauty, can we develop the ability to perceive others from this same perspective? Here is a clue: gratitude is a first step.

In this episode, our lead ministers, Michelle Medrano and Josh Reeves chat about how to make the holidays sacred.