Mystery pervading all we think we know

We use wonderful words when we talk about our faith. Words like mystery, and silence, and love and discerning the will of God. Each of those words with layers and layers of meaning from thousands of years of human and spiritual experience, including our own.

They all point to the mystery of the flow of Spirit. That is who we are – in our being and in our doing. Day by day, in our meditation and in our living, in our joys and even tragedies of life, we can trust and be in that flow in all things and in every circumstance.

God is essentially mystery, beyond all names. We name the reality beyond naming when we cry from the heart, in the voice of our longing, in our very living and being and doing.

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What is a vital faith in a scientific world?

Science and technology are the dominant authorities in our culture as to what is true and real. Science and technology are advancing faster and faster. Can there be a vibrant and powerful Christian faith that does not contradict science? Can we be faithful without having to accept metaphysical ideas of another age that we simply no longer believe? Or better yet, can faith and science support and inform each other?

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Silence the Language of God

We tend to think of silence as negative – the absence of language and talking and noise, either outwardly or in our own inner experience. The reality is that silence is not negative but positive – not the absence but the rich presence of integration in the mind and brain.

By definition, silence is beyond words. But precisely because it is beyond words, it is beyond the limitations and traps of the words of our personal story and our assumptions, fears, fantasies and hopes we carry from the past and project on to our future. It is the realm of freedom and love and creative integration.

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Who We Are


Welcome! We invite you to read about us on this web site, visit our worship and other groups, and as you feel called, share in our Point of Vision community and ministries. We are a community for healing and living the contemplative spirit.We practice living and being in the presence of Spirit and the knowing beyond words Paul calls,

Our Pastor

John, or Jack (he likes both names equally) Biersdorf is the pastor of the Point of Vision Community. His family was without any official religious affiliation, but he remembers from his earliest years a sense of an overarching context,

Articles of Faith

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" Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because...
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Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and steadfast spirit withing me. Do not cast me...
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Jesus said to them,”Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Human One and drink...
Even in the midst of great pain, Lord, I praise you for that which is. I will not refuse this...

PASTOR'S BLOG

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SCIENCE VS. SPIRITUALITY

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Prayer Blog

There are many different and important methods and teachings on meditation and prayer. Among them we use Centering Prayer. It was developed by Fr. Thomas Keating and others, and the Contemplative Outreach community he...
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