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Sermon Clip: You Are Not The Tree

Sermon Clip: You Are Not The Tree

What do the Gospels, Christmas Trees, and Eastern Spirituality have to do with one another? Greg Boyd explains in this weeks sermon clip.

In the full sermon, we explore the Gnostics belief of the church in Colossae and how those relate to the New Spirituality movements rooted in Eastern thought of our day. We explore the biblical perspectives on pantheism, interacting with spirits and reincarnation and ultimately see how finding enlightenment in anything or anyone other than Jesus is deceptive and misses out on the loving character of God.

Full sermon here: http://whchurch.org/sermons-media/sermon/you-are-not-the-tree

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