Mile Hi Church Podcast

Activate Your Worship Circuit with Michelle MedranoHumans appear to have a circuit within that can cause us to worship all sorts of things and people. However, the circuit sometimes gets overused, underused, or out of balance. Ho

Embrace celebration as a spiritual practice. Celebration shouldn’t only happen once in a while but as a key, regular practice to help you reflect, acknowledge your accomplishments and step proudly into your next-to-be.

Four-Week Sunday SeriesBack To Basics 2024Four Spiritual Rites of ThrivingSun., Jan. 28From Living For, To Living From Abundancewith Michelle MedranoEric Butterworth said, “Things may happen around you and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.”Life is abundant. Yet, our lives are only as abundant in our experience as our consciousness to receive them. The key is not about how much we can take in, it’s about our capacity to cultivate an awareness of the abundance of life within us and to live from and for it.

In this episode, our lead ministers, Michelle Medrano and Josh Reeves discuss political anxiety in 2024.

Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science, tells of a man who is incredibly thirsty, drinks a glass of water, and then carries on about how thirsty he was. The point being, too many of us have so learned to be thirsty that we must learn to be fulfilled and satisfied.An important rite of spiritual living is when we acknowledge past disappointments and hurts and no longer choose to have our identity defined by them. There is a greater story of our life yet-to-be told. We all have the potential to live thriving lives, but it’s up to us to choose to realize that potential.As we learn to live thriving lives, the thriving takes care of itself.

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