First Religion

We live in a world drenched in shame. Shame is the core belief not that I did something wrong, but that I am wrong. It severs us from the inherent goodness of our desire, our body, our Eros. This split disconnects us from the beauty of our Unique Selves and fuels many of today's personal and cultural pathologies. Wilhelm Reich called it "the murder of Eros"-and it is not metaphorical, but civilizational.

A collection of religious and social thoughts written by Dr. Roland Roopchand.

In 1969, astrophysicist Dr. Horace Mitchel spent three years totally alone in a Nevada desert "Deep Underground Military Base" with what was believed to be a female extraterrestrial visitor from another world. The highly classified black project was a scheduled visitation called Project Mogul. Without any supervision or oversight, they grew very close and more intimate with each other, finally making the discovery that their bodies were sexually compatible. They fell in love. Against protocol, she decided to give him forbidden knowledge.

Why must everything be so black and white? Like many of us, Derwin Gray is weary of the racial divide in our society. He longs to see hurts healed, wrongs corrected, and trust replace distrust. The good news is that the Bible has a lot to say about how to heal our persistent racial divides. In this book, popular Bible teacher Derwin Gray walks us through Scripture, showing us the heart of God—how God from the beginning envisioned a reconciled multiethnic family in loving community, reflecting his beauty and healing presence in the world. This message is central to the gospel itself.

As a young man is thrust into a journey of spiritual awakening, he is met with the inner demons that have tormented him since childhood. Wandering through the dark fantasies of his inner life, he's met with a life-changing decision in his outer life that will forever alter his direction. As he reaches the core of his darkness, he is met with the emotionally shattering reality of a childhood trauma that has haunted him his entire life.

From the opening chapter of the Gospel of Mark, The First 24, is an exciting, fast-paced investigation and commentary on the first 24 hours of Jesus' public ministry in the town of Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee.

The insecure little girl was the platform God used to get to Stevie Wonder, former President, Donald J. Trump, Whitney Houston, Elizabeth Taylor, Bob Hope, Gladys Knight, and so many more entertainers.

This short Bible book is about the First Book of Kings (1 Kings). The listener can also capture the Hebrew culture of the Bible with the "World Messianic Bible" translation (the British edition). This translation also keeps the authentic Hebrew names for you to enjoy.

The Eclectic Diet: A Mastery of Things Hidden and Unseen is a map that takes a person into the deep realms and thoughts associated with spirituality. It is an entry point to exit your body, a mental phenomenon to be interpreted by each in their own way.

For most Christians, God is He. That’s the unnoticed wallpaper of our Christian lives, impacting our understanding of both God and ourselves. Finding God’s Feminine Side is an invitation to discover the beautiful, but often overlooked feminine imagery for God in the Bible and an exploration of why our view of God has been so masculine, why that imbalance might be a problem and what we might want to do about it. Entering this territory inevitably raises difficult questions.

These sermons were preached at Black Mountain Presbyterian Church, where I have the privilege of serving as Parish Associate. They were shaped by the honest questions of people walking through ordinary days filled with both joy and sorrow. Over these first seven years at BMPC, I discovered again and again that sermons are not speeches but conversations—between scripture and the present moment, between faith and doubt, between God’s promise and our lived experience.

Thomas Boston explains the first commandment as consisting of three parts: Knowing. Acknowledging. Worshipping and glorifying. He shows that every command has an affirmative part and a negative. The negative is included in the affirmative, and the affirmative in the negative.

On the third day, God planted the garden in the east of the earth, on the border of the world eastward, beyond which, towards the sunrising, one finds nothing but water, that encompasses the whole world, and reaches to the borders of heaven.

The First Book of Prayers is a book that God asked me to write. In it he wanted me to write out prayers to him. I didn’t know what it would look like when it was complete, but I obeyed. As I began to write it, I began to understand the purpose of the book more. This is a book of prayers for others to pray. It is also a deep glimpse into how I pray personally. It is my heart speaking to my heavenly father. Contained within are 60 prayers making various requests of the Living God.

Are you interested in learning how to have lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences (also known as astral projection or astral travel)? You'll appreciate this set of step-by-step instructions and advice based on the author's personal experiences. The first part of the book focuses on lucid dream techniques. The second part focuses on having an out-of-body experience. This book is brief and to the point, absent of any fluff, conversation, or anecdotes. If the listener wants to begin their training tonight, this concise guide makes that possible.

A quarter of a century before Smith Wigglesworth, John G. Lake, and Maria Woodworth-Etter, Ethan Otis Allen pioneered an extraordinary move of God. Rising from abject poverty, this uneducated man became, in the words of A.B. Simpson, “The father of divine healing in America.” Who was this forgotten man, and what did he discover about the mysteries of the Kingdom of God?

“When I discovered the simple and sustainable principle of The God-First Life,” says pastor Stovall Weems, “it changed every area of my life.” In this six-session study, pastor Stovall Weems teaches how to let go of things you don’t have the answers for and trust Him enough to simply...

This book is written for the lost. It originated as a result of an epiphany based on an article about the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars. Once a year, Curiosity would stop and celebrate the anniversary of its arrival on Mars by stopping briefly to sing "Happy Birthday" to itself. Then, once again, it continues through the dry desolation of the planet surface on a path of discovery.

No other book of the Bible gives a clearer sequence and detail of the events surrounding the glorious return of Jesus Christ than the two letters Paul writes to a young church at Thessalonica (Greece) that fears it will be left behind when that great day comes.

"I, Nephi, having been born of goodly parents..." So begins the first book in the Book of Mormon. In this brief theological introduction, philosopher and theologian Joseph M. Spencer investigates the central themes and purposes of a book he calls a "theological masterpiece". What was Nephi trying to accomplish with his writings? How can readers/listeners today make better sense of Nephi's words? What can an ancient seer offer readers/listeners in the 21st century? Spencer introduces a Nephi for our moment, a complex prophet with an urgent message for a world in turmoil.