Michelle is a leader in Wellspring Derry. Wellspring is a community Church in the Celtic trandition. Michelle sketches her spiritual journey from her first conscious encounters with God to discovering Wellspring.

Those who sell short Christ's Word are as St. Paul said 'Peddlers of God's Word' - 2Cor. 2:17. Some of those peddlers are trying to sell God's Word short to support their abominable position on what is happening in Gaza.

Jesus clears the Temple of Peddlers of His Word. Peddlers sell short the Message of Jesus and desecrate the temple by replacing God's Fullness with a small abominable desecration.

The story from Abram to Abraham and from Moses to Christ. This full story does allow for the ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

We'll see how Moses meets Christ and sees the fullness of the Salvation Story fulfilled in Him.

This trailer introduces a 3 part series on the abominable desecration present in parts of the Church/Temple today. This desecration of Christ's message is being used to justify ethnic cleansing in The Holy Land.

The difficulty in living the choice of Choosing the presence of God first in your life. How that choice comes with a cost that we choose not to pay maybe for a time. We will explore this challenge in this episode.

If I by the finger of God do whatever, then know that the Kingdom of God has come near. In this episode, we will explore the presence of God in our world. How our resurrected imagination sees the Lord's purposes moving all around us. We begin to talk about the Imaginal and its role and how this perspective impacts our mission.

Transfiguration following the ascension is an integral part of the Christian message and it is for everyone, not just any elite.

Mary meets Jesus following the resurrection.

Mary is asked not to hold on to Jesus as He is ascending to Our Father. What does that mean? But she is sent to the Apostles with the message that Jesus is risen and is ascending.

What is contemplation and why is it important to our spiritual growth?

In what way is contemplation essential to our being transformed into the image of Christ?

Is Contemplation part of the original Christian experience?

Is it an essential part of our Christian walk?

Does Christ call for us to be contemplative?

Different levels of prayer. Jesus would have us perfect in prayer by following Him. This is His challenge to the Rich Young Man.

This is our final episode with Terry on prayer before we start our conversations of contemplation in the next episode.

Detachment, as a discipline to allow praying at all times.

St. Peter says,Discipline yourself for the sake of your prayers.

So, that is to say, that Prayer is not the focus of disciple/technique, but we are to be disciplined so that we can pray as we ought.

The start of prayer, what it is, and where to get started. 'It's like

breathing' and try stopping breathing and see how you get on,'

Says Terry. We discuss that view of prayer.

This 2nd Season will be conversations with Terry Hogg on Prayer, Contemplation, and Ascending with Christ up His Prayer Mountain.

There will be additional bonus interviews with others.

A new episode each Sunday for at least 12 weeks.

Finally, if you have questions arising from what you hear submit them, and we'll try to respond.

Enjoy

Choosing the Presence of God above all else is a recurring phrase I use in introducing each of the Episodes in Season 1. But what does it mean and where does it come from? These questions will be answered in this episode. The Bible text referred to, is Exodus Chapter 33.

I was asked this question by an Intercessor who felt called by God to Pray for the people of Gaza - Can I pray for the people of Gaza?

She had heard from preachers encouraging people to focus their prayers on Israel ignoring the suffering of those in Gaza; that Israel's actions align with God's plan.

Here is the Biblical answer I gave to her question.

We have heard from Tommy Kelly telling the story of Wellspring in Derry and Terry Hogg who told of Coricale in Belfast now it is my turn to tell of The Gathering in Galway. I will be completing the narrative of the Celtic, Organic, or Indigenous Church in this Land of Saints and Scholars. I will outline our shared message: choose the Presence of God first and to meet God face-to-face we must have a face.