Now Playing: The Gospels of Holmes
Rev. Bill Marchiony is a co-founder and Spiritual Director of New Thought Philadelphia. He has been a practitioner of Practical Healing Prayer since 2002. His spiritual studies began six years earlier, and he received ministerial credentials in 2011 from the Emerson Theological Institute.
Rev. Bill is the author of "Practical Prayer for Real Results", available in Kindle and paperback versions at Amazon.com and other booksellers. It's a wonderful primer on the steps of Practical Prayer, with 40 complete prayers on a variety of topics that you can customize for your own immediate use.
This young convert was deeply impressed and determined to make these the rules of his life. From that day onward throughout his life he made it a rule to spend the first moments of his day alone with God and God's Word. Before he read a letter, looked at a paper or even read a telegram, he went first to the Bible, that the first impression of the day might be what he got directly from God.
The Science of Mind textbook is the foundational work by Ernest Holmes. In the first four chapters he clearly describes the philosophy: The Thing Itself, The Way It Works, What It Does, and How to Use It. Rev. Bill Marchiony takes us through them, with suggestions about the ways we can use them to bring more good "Stuff" into our lives.
We begin the new year with a special ceremony, using white stones imported from Jerusalem to set an intention for the Good that we're inviting into our lives in 2022. It's a beautiful way to ring in the new.
With winter underway, Christmas behind us, and a new year looming, we can take the cue of anticipation from the holiday carol to consider what we'd like what's next to look like. Rev. Bill Marchiony helps us turn away from seeing life as an established path, and envision new possibilities instead.
Ernest Holmes wrote that we can have anything we want in life, and that we pay for it in spiritual coin. Rev. Bill Marchiony investigates what that means in our lives, how we can invest, and how that investment pays dividends.
Learning to act and communicate in a manner that creates the result we desire is always possible, but not necessarily easy. Rev. Bill Marchiony talks about metaphysical lessons cloaked as business and production questions learned in the years he spent working in the graphics, printing and publishing industry.
Widely known in New Thought, Martha’s trainings approach deep inner work as an adventure with a sense of curiosity and wonder. A master of the art of right questioning, she calls forth the most stubborn and self-defeating patterns to create a new way of being, literally. Ordained in Religious Science and Divine Science, Martha has served as Great Lakes Unity Consultant, and is a member of Unity Institute faculty. She has attended Emerson Theological Seminary (Masters and Doctorate), Byron Katie School for The Work, and Hoffman Institute. She is a Healthy Congregations Facilitator and Trainer.
Guest Speaker Martha Creek shares insights that And teaches us to say yes. And keeps us from either-or. And allows us to be both-and. And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything.
There are many times and many ways we're reminded that we must take care of ourselves. Rev. Bill Marchiony unravels the metaphysical lessons in situations ranging from the air travel safety briefing to put on our own oxygen mask first to the New Thought technique of Practical Prayer.
Michele Whittington became an ordained minister in 1997, received her Doctorate of Divinity in 2007 and had the honor and privilege of serving the spiritual community of Creative Living Fellowship in Phoenix, Arizona, for 22 years as its Senior Minister. As a certified Real Love coach for over a decade, she has worked with countless individuals and couples to make the internal changes necessary to create loving, joyous relationships. And now as an Art of Feminine Presence® master teacher, she has added a set of practices and tools to amplify her own personal power and magnetism and to support others in doing the same.
Enthusiasm (literally meaning “being God filled”) is contagious. Guest Speaker Rev. Dr. Michele Whittington explores the power behind being excited about expressing our Godliness, and we will see what we can do to be contagions for God’s Good.
The Infinite Creative Power is always at work, allowing new ideas and experiences to unfold - and we're participating, by using our conscious intention to invite those new experiences. Rev. Bill Marchiony reminds us that it's not a "one-and-done" event, but instead a process which we use continuously, or repeatedly.
After a spring of sprouting and a summer of blossoming, the plants know that it's time to let go of what has served its purpose to allow the cycle to continue. Rev. Bill Marchiony investigates the way we do the same thing in our lives, and the ways we often try to resist.
We're usually pretty comfortable when we're inside of our comfort zone, for obvious reasons. Rev. Bill Marchiony explores what's in the world beyond, and the ways that we can experience it either as a "discomfort zone", or a growth zone.
Our spiritual practice is an ongoing evolution, not something that gets finished. Rev Bill and the Practitioners explore some of the techniques of meditation, prayer, contemplation, and mindfulness that we can use to uplift our personal spiritual practices.
Prayer is an activity, a practice, something that we can put on our to-do list and then check off when it's done. Rev. Bill Marchiony describes how prayer can also become a state of mind that we can bring to all of our activities and experiences.
\One of the things that sets Practical Prayer or Spiritual Mind Treatment apart from other forms of prayer is the purpose statement. Rev. Bill Marchiony explores the importance of it, and how we can use it to fine-tune the prayers that are creating our lives.
The perceptual lens we look through sets the stage for our "how", the way we are in relationship with what’s before us. Guest speaker Rev. Rhetta Morgan shares insight on the ways, in times of great change, we get to choose, to cultivate internal power and see the world that can be.
For a year and a half we've been anticipating the "new normal" as life returns from pandemic fears and isolation. Rev. Bill Marchiony explores the differences between our hopes, expectations, and experiences, and the metaphysical lessons that can be found within.
Some people work it a creative field... writing, painting, singing, performing, or doing something that the rest of the world labels "creative". Rev. Bill Marchiony points out that we are ALL creative, channeling the Power that creates everything into our activities.
We all know that words are important, that we speak our Word of Intention and release it to the Infinite Creative Power to create a new experience in our life. Rev. Bill points out that the little connecting words can be as important as the big ideas, or even more.
Living the abundant life is synonymous with being free of lack and limitation, but lack and limitation are concepts of mind. Guest speaker Pankaj Sharma addresses The Path to Wealth Consciousness, pointing out that, just like dirty water can be cleaned and filtered, we are able to clean and clear our mind of the concept of lack and limitation.
There's a saying that the past is history, and the future's a mystery, so all we have is the present, which makes it a gift. Rev. Bill Marchiony explores our balance point between the stories we tell about the past, and the ones we tell about the future, and how both sets of stories are subject to change.
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