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David's Thoughts
Twelve Steps to
Personal Transformation
Sunday, July 10, 10:00 AM
This week I am continuing with my series, The Twelve Steps of Transformation, based on The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
I appreciate that The Twelve Steps recognize and allow for our human nature. The founders of The Twelve Steps understood that spiritual recovery is a process, which does not happen instantaneously, or even quickly. They understood, from their personal experience, that one who is so deeply entrenched in their own way of thinking and being, as most addicts are, does not let go hastily or without effort.
This is why step two begins with "Came to believe..." and step six begins with "Were entirely ready..." and step eight includes the phrase, "Became willing to." They acknowledge that it is not human nature to surrender control. Believing we are in control gives us a sense of power. In Truth, personal control is simply an illusion. It is an illusion that many of us hold tightly. It is not easy for us to give in to God and stand with our brother and way shower Jesus and say with conviction, "Of myself I can do nothing. It is the Father within that does the work." (John 5:30)
From our Unity perspective ...
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Special Musical Guest: Marcy Baruch
Sunday, July 10th 10:00 AM
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Marcy Baruch |
We are excited to welcome Marcy Baruch as our musical guest artist this Sunday!
If the stars could sing a love song, they might very well sound like the voice of Marcy Baruch (bah-Roosh). Full of radiant warmth, passion, and honesty, her music is born of one soul-mission: to open us into the wondrous depths and magnificence of who we truly are. Refreshing in scope, Marcy's songs embrace the listener in a number of styles: the sounds of Scottish bagpipes; the sparseness of Americana-style folk odes; the lushness of piano-based orchestral numbers; a cappella original hymns; and chants of devotion--all of these have their place in an experience with this soulfully engaging musical artist.
Following the release of her third CD, The Strength of Love, Marcy's song "This Inner Space" received the emPower Music & Arts Posi Award for the best healing song of the year. Emmy nominated producer Steve Avedis, whose clients include Tony Bennett and Kenny Rogers, exclaimed, "You've got to hear this woman. Her voice drew me in right up front with its silky-smooth, sultry quality; she is like no one else I have ever heard." Her song "House of the Soul's Belonging," written with Jan Garrett & JD Martin, received the 2015 Posi Award in the Uniting category. Later this year, she will be creating a new CD of devotional chant. She also loves her work as a voice coach, her studies in mystical and evolutionary Christianity-and she is so very honored to be joining Rev. David and all at Unity Spiritual Center of Denver!
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UNITY 101
The Unity movement was founded by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in 1890 as a healing ministry
based on the power of prayer and the power of our thoughts to create our own reality. The
Fillmores regarded Jesus as the great example rather than the great exception; interpreted the
Bible metaphysically; and taught that God is present within all of us.
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NEWS FROM YOUR SPIRITUAL CENTER
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2016 Photo Directories Are Here!
Available in the bookstore this Sunday!
All families who were photographed receive one free directory!
They may also be purchased for $6 each.
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New Unity Leadership Development Opportunities
For Small Group & Service Group Leaders
Leadership Development Kick-Off
Sunday, July 24th, 11:30-12:30 pm
We are excited to launch a new
S
mall Group
Book Study
t
he week of September 5th.
Together we will study
Divine Audacity by Linda Martella- Whitsett.
This is also marks a new leadership opportunity for anyone interested in leading a Small Group!
Our goal is to offer meaningful leadership opportunities to support you in the
discovery of your own innate gifts & talents!
The following curriculum is required for Small Group & Service Group leaders.
Unity Leadership Curriculum
* The Five Principles Class:
Tuesdays, June 26- August 23rd, 6:30-8:30 pm
* New Members Class: Saturday:
August 13th, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
(Membership is a requirement for leadership positions)
Leadership Development Curriculum:
* The Art of Facilitation & Team Building:
Saturday, July 29th, 9:00 am -2:00 pm
* Organizational Skills & Technology Overview:
Saturday, August 27th, 9:00 am -12:00 pm
Join us on Sunday, July 24th at 11:30 for complete leadership program details.
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Our Financial Snapshot
Our January - May Financial Results
Income $ 129,040
Expenses $ 165,833
June 19th
Weekly snapshot
Income $ 4,828
Expenses $ 7,667
($2,839)
Enjoying summer travel? We have created a Summer Giving Fund, allowing you to initiate an automatic contribution via
Secure Give
here.
Please give prayerful consideration to setting up a recurring donation to help us plan effectively to meet our weekly and monthly operating expenses. Thank you!
We are grateful for your continued support of Unity Spiritual Center Denver.
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GIVE ON YOUR SMART PHONE
Via Secure Give 
In addition to online donations via our website,
we are now able to accept text-to-give donations
via Secure Give.
A one time set up process is required. After that a simple text is all that is needed!
Click here for detailed instructions
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Family Promise
Through our partnership with Family Promise of Greater Denver, there are many ways you can serve beyond the needs of our spiritual community.
You can make an impact in the lives of those experiencing homelessness in greater Metro Denver.
Click
HERE to see all of the ways you can serve. Connect with your heart to determine for which roles you are being called to sign up.
Thank you for your support!
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Unity Friday Movie Night
Friday, July 22 at 7:00 PM
Featuring "Finding Joe" produced & directed by Pat Solomon
Join us for Unity Movie Night! 
In the early 20th century, while studying world mythology, Joseph Campbell discovered a pattern hidden in every story ever told and he called it "the heroes journey". A truly inspirational film, FINDING JOE takes us on the ultimate heroes journey: the journey of self discovery. As you slay dragons and uncover treasures, you just may find that the holy grail you seek is closer than you think
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We will have popcorn available during the film which is 80 minutes in length.
If you're coming from work, feel free to bring your dinner. This is a casual event.
Following the film we will have an opportunity for discussion with each other about the premise.
We hope you can join us!
More information about this film is available
here.
A monthly event to be held the 4th Friday of every month, this event is open to everyone!
Unity Movie Night is proudly sponsored by Next Generation Unity at Unity Spiritual Center Denver!
Check us out on Facebook:
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Compelling Conversations: Cultivating Spiritual Community
Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
NGU: Next Generation Unity Sponsored Event
Guest Speaker: Kelly O'Connor
For more information on Kelly, please visit her
website.
We are looking for speakers for these events.
If you are interested or would like more information, please email
Potluck and discussion to follow our speaker.
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Check out the event page and sign-up for the potluck,
This event is sponsored by NGU and is open to all persons wishing to participate regardless of age.
Check us out on Facebook:
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Contemplative Service
First Wednesday of the month
August 3, 7:00 PM
Our monthly contemplative service is
at 7:00 p.m. on the first Wednesday of every month.
prayer, meditation, readings and music.
Our Spiritual Leader, David Howard, will be responsible for creating and facilitating the services; however,
if you are interested in participating by providing music, reading, prayer or meditation, please let David know by email -
[email protected].
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Women's Retreat
A Sacred Day of Awakening for Women
at Loretto Spirituality Center,
4000 S. Wadsworth Blvd, Littleton, CO. 80123
Self-care is one of the most important gifts we can give ourselves.
Join your sisters in creating a true sanctuary as you journey through six phases of self-discovery: worthiness, presence, power, beauty, freedom, and wisdom. Uncover these phases through meditation, reflection, movement, creativity, ritual and music. Rediscover the light of who you really are-your glorious I AM-as you awaken to all the gifts within you and walk in your true beauty.
Facilitated by Rev. Dr. Phyllis Hoover, LUT and Denise Vega, Ed.M.
Cost: $75 (includes lunch), limited to 20
Online registration only:
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Ongoing
Thursday
Tai' Chi Gung Class
7:00 - 8:00 PM
A 5-week Monday Morning Tai Chi Gung class is beginning on
Monday, June 20th
from 10:00 - 10:45
followed by a meditation from 11:00 - 11:45 AM.
Do you want to make your spiritual life physical?
Tai Chi Gung is sometimes called the "simple yoga". It features fluid breathing and graceful moving exercises that build stamina, relieve stress, improve balance, speed recovery from injury, strengthen the immune system, foster peace of mind and develop mental focus. This gentle, ancient system of health and longevity from Tibet has been passed down in an unbroken lineage from the original Master Boganathar, known in China as the sage Lao Tzu for 3000 years.
Can the Infinite Abundance in your mind be in your body as well?
Tai Chi Gung includes a series of simple standing exercises that help people connect to the energy of the life force in nature consciously. It is an ancient art and science that shows students how to draw, store, project and release the chi through their spirit, mind and physical body; gradually returning it to the perfect image in which it was originally created ... manifesting good on earth as it is in heaven.
Facilitated by Rev. Phyllis Hoover, ThD on a love-offering basis.
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In The Flow of Life
Ongoing Sunday Morning Class
Offered on a love offering basis the open class will be facilitated by Rev. Dr. Phyllis Hoover, LUT and will meet on Sunday mornings upstairs in the Adult Education Office from 8:45 to 9:45.
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HEALTH & WHOLENESS EVENTS
July 9 - Food Awareness I 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM
BASIC CONCEPTS OF NUTRITION FOCUSING ON THE HEALING COMPONENTS OF FOOD with Dr. Peter Stucz .
For the remainder of the year, Unity Spiritual Center Denver is pleased to present events, classes and a series of workshops which will focus on ideas of individual Health and Wholeness. Our Unity perspective views Wholeness as the fundamental Reality of each person. In order to demonstrate wholeness in mind and body, we need to understand that we are seeking to express the eternal, Divine Idea called Life.
This Idea is the pure potential or pattern for wholeness that attains form through our individual consciousness.
Like Wholeness, Health is a Principle that underlies and pervades everything. In the Absolute, Health is an aspect of the truth of What we are. It is not something that is imposed from without; Health expresses from within consciousness as we keep our thoughts centered on the Principle of Life. As Unity co-founder, Charles Fillmore states "Health is the normal condition of humankind and of all creation. Health...is as universal and enduring as God."
The Saturday workshops include the following:
August 6- Food Awareness II
September 10 - Meditation I
October 1 - Meditation II
November - Science and Spirituality
December 3 - to be announced
Classes include:
Life of Prayer, June 21 - July 26
The Twelve Powers - September 6 - October 18
Special events:
Women's Retreat - August 13th
August 20 - Linda Martella-Whitsett workshop on prayer
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New Member Class Update:
Saturday, August 13th, 9:00- 2:00 PM
We are condensing our New Member class rotations into one Saturday class,
offered twice a year.
The first section is Unity Quick Start, which
covers the history of Unity and the New Thought movement as well as basic Unity principles and spiritual practices.
The second section is Unity Spiritual Center Denver and You, which covers the history of the church and introduces the many ways of
becoming involved as an active member.
The third section is Connecting to Unity Spiritual Center Denver, which explores the culture of Unity Spiritual Center Denver and how we choose to be together in community.
Please email the office with any questions or to register for this class,
here.
*If you have taken any of the sections via the Sunday rotations, please contact David Howard, here. We may make special arrangements for you to complete the classes if the Saturday workshop does not work in your schedule.
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Special Events with Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett
August 20th & 21st
Prayer with Others Workshop
Saturday, August 21st, 10:00AM-12:30PM
This will be part of our
2016 Prayer Chaplain Training
(open to anyone interested).
During a "Prayer with Others" workshop, participants can expect to:
- Review affirmative prayer in light of Unity's principle of oneness (One Power and our oneness with the One);
- Develop awareness of unifying language;
- Learn an approach to affirmative prayer w/ others that identifies the spiritual issues at the heart of a prayer request/intention;
- * Practice drawing from one or more of Unity's 12 Powers, as describable divine attributes; and empowering the prayer requester to draw from their spiritual powers in response to their circumstances.
Training is based upon Linda Martella-Whitsett's books:
How to Pray Without Talking to God: Moment by Moment, Choice by Choice
Divine Audacity: Dare to be the Light of the World
More about Linda here
10:00 AM Sunday Service Message, August 22nd
Divine Audacity: Dare to be the Light of the World
The 1990's Christian evangelical imperative was "WWJD"? What would Jesus do? Following Jesus is a monumental assignment. Being the light of the world? Preposterous. Mission impossible. Or is it? Linda de-mystifies Jesus' great declaration, "You are the light of the world," by revealing the power behind many facets of the light, our spiritual abilities. Audaciously, Linda shows how it is possible for everyone to do what Jesus did.
Suggested love-offering, $25
Sunday August 21st, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Let Your Light Shine Workshop
Wanna be nobler, kinder, bolder, or freer? More open-hearted, intuitive, or willing? Wanna live larger or expect greater? Uncover your longing leading to innate body, mind, and spirit capacities. Daringly excavate aspects of the light within, spiritual forces you can cultivate in order to strengthen, stretch, and succeed.
Suggested love-offering, $20
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Compassionate Communication
Practice Group
NOT MEETING ON Wednesday, July 13,
due to Family Promise.
Anyone who has completed at least the Introductory Compassionate Communication skills class at Unity Spiritual Center Denver or has completed a foundations class elsewhere is welcome to join the Practice Group.
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Did you know that we now have a YouTube channel? That's right! If you miss a Sunday service or if you would just like to hear a message again, you can watch videos of our Sunday lessons online.
You can also subscribe in order to be sure you don't ever miss another one. Once you subscribe you will receive notification each time a new video is uploaded.
Share them with your friends and family!
Click on the YouTube logo to the right to be directed to our channel and subscribe today!
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Couples Spirituality Group Meeting
Sunday, July 24th from 11:30 to 1:00
How can our spiritual growth support both the individual and the couple?
The Unity Couples Spirituality Group will be an opportunity for couples in a committed relationship to discover ways to explore this unique spiritual territory.
Whether spirituality is already a strong part of your relationship or you are looking to add a spiritual dimension to your relationship this group may be for you.
Join other couples interested in exploring spirituality together!
For more information contact
Lori here
or Tim here.
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Recorded Prayer Line
303.757.6761 
Unity Spiritual Center Denver offers a recorded prayer line as a service to all. Our own Phyllis Hoover records the Daily Word reading for each day. If you would like to receive a special blessing, call and listen 24-hours a day.
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CONTRIBUTING TO UNITY OF DENVER
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Need to release an old car, boat or other vehicle?
Consider donating it!
Unity Spiritual Center Denver is listed as a beneficiary with Car Donating Is Easy!
For general information on the program, click here.
To initiate a donation via the program, click here
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Help us spread the Online word about
Unity Spiritual Center Denver Online!
Click on these links for Unity Spiritual Center Denver :
We ask that you actively get involved by:
- Check in to Facebook on Sunday mornings
- Write a review
- Invite Friends
- Like, comment and share.
If everyone gets involved, we can easily increase our reach from 50 to 500 to 5000. Help spread the word of Unity Spiritual Center Denver. It's only a few clicks away.
Video and Picture Disclaimer
Unity Spiritual Center Denver actively engages in social media. We take photos and video of the services and church activities on a regular basis and post them to Facebook. If for any reason you do not want to be photographed or to appear in any of the online activities of Unity Spiritual Center Denver, we ask that you to sit on the right side of the sanctuary during the service (non-piano side), or let the photographer know you would prefer not to be photographed.
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ARE YOU
ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTING TO
Unity Spiritual Center Denver?
We recently learned that if you have a zero balance on your re-loadable for Unity King Soopers card for 30 days or longer, it is no longer connected to the payback program.
While you can still re-load your card as usual, it is no longer connected to Unity of Denver, and thus, does not contribute to our payback program.
The only way to rectify this is to purchase another $10 card in our bookstore, and be sure to use it once a month.
NOT SURE... if your card is still active in the payback program, please email the office with the serial number on the back of your card for confirmation.
If you don't have a card, they are available in the bookstore for $10. *This initial $10 is available for use at any King Soopers. You can reload it thereafter and use it just like cash and Unity Spiritual Center Denver will receive 5% of your total purchase.
This program has been a good source of income for us in the past!
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ANOTHER WAY TO CONTRIBUTE TO UNITY SPIRITUAL CENTER DENVER
You Shop. Amazon Gives.
Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases to
Unity Spiritual Center Denver when you shop on AmazonSmile!
You can use the same Amazon account you have always used. Just go to Smile.Amazon.com, select Unity Spiritual Center Denver as your charitable organization and start shopping.
It's that easy!
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