SYNOPSIS:

    This cyber-sermon offers an inside account of the dynamics of our spirits:
(1) a description of our Spiritual Malaise in eight different disguises
and (2) some guidance about how to open ourselves to Grace,
which releases us from our Spiritual Predicament.

     Do we feel lonely, guilty, depressed, meaningless,
empty, insecure, despairing, & anxious?
Each of these psychological feelings (which we can easily understand)
hides a spiritual twin, which is much deeper than the surface problem:
(1) Behind interpersonal loneliness, we will discover spiritual loneliness.
(2) Below understandable pangs of conscience, we will find spiritual guilt.
(3) Underneath psychological depression, we will notice spiritual depression.
(4) Behind lack of meaning, we will discern spiritual meaninglessness.
(5) Under ordinary losses, we will discover the spiritual Void.
(6) Below ordinary insecurity, we will distinguish spiritual insecurity.
(7) Behind ordinary disappointments, we will feel spiritual despair.
And (8) beneath ordinary fears and worries, we will perceive spiritual anxiety.

OUTLINE:

1. Interpersonal Loneliness & Spiritual Loneliness.

2. Pangs of Conscience & Spiritual Guilt.

3. Psychological Depression & Spiritual Depression.

4. Relative Meaninglessness & Spiritual Meaninglessness.

5. Filling Our Spiritual Void.

6. Ordinary Insecurity & Spiritual Insecurity.

7. Sinking into the River of Despair.

8. Simple Fears & Spiritual Anxiety.

    If you can't wait for this cyber-sermon to be selected and composed,
there is a book upon which it is based of the same name.

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