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Explore how self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-compassion can deepen our spiritual lives and transform the way we show up for one another. Through reflection, connection, and shared experience, go beyond the idea of community into the practice of community, where every person has the opportunity to be seen, heard, valued, and supported.

There is a difference between working hard and living on purpose. Many of us feel exhausted because we are laboring without meaning. Spiritual living invites us to align our gifts with our purpose. This Labor Day, we lean into the realm of calling and purpose.

What is the resilience way? It’s the path of persistence even in the midst of resistance. It’s the faith to know that the power within you is always greater than the challenges around you. It’s staying authentic in the midst of the superficial. It’s the courage to be yourself. Fundamentally, it’s your commitment to your Spirit and the adventure that ensues.

Love and hate may seem like opposites, yet both arise from the same creative power within us. In a time of polarization and strong reactions, many of us struggle to embody the radical love Jesus taught—especially when faced with challenging people or conditions. This message explores how unconscious resistance shapes our lives and how spiritual practice allows us to reclaim our creative power, transforming reactivity into purposeful, life-affirming love.

Listen, listen, listen to my heart’s song. I will never forget thee. I will never forsake thee.
–Paramahansa Yogananda

What does it mean to hear the song of the eternal in your own heart, your own relationships, and in your everyday life? If we learn to listen deeply enough, we discover that the song of the Divine is always playing.

Greg McKeown said that if you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will. It is one thing when this is some critic calling for our attention or some authority figure who doesn’t respect us. It’s tricky when this is the people we love and the work we care most about. There is so much that “should” come first, but if we aren’t careful, we may lose ourselves in the trying. Hence our message today, that in order for who is most important to come first, they must come second.

Two-Week Sunday Series
Pathways in the Garden of the Tree of Life
with Zemirah

Sun., Aug. 2
Watering, Weeding, and the Discipline of Tending

How to stay rooted in calm connectedness in the midst of chaos is a practice. What does it mean to tend our inner life the way a gardener tends sacred ground? Which parts of you are thirsting for living water? Which patterns, habits and inherited beliefs might be quietly choking what wants to bloom? What is the difference between the shadowed expression of your gifts and the luminous offering your soul came here to make? Find Paradise in plain sight through ancient practices and teachings of the Kabbalah, I Ching, and Zen.

Practitioner In Training with Josh & Steve

Based on Karen Maezen Miller's Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden and teachings from the Kabbalah, this first talk: The Gate and the Ground, explores having faith in yourself as The Way, how all of life experiences are conspiring to bring us into a deeper awareness and experience of Spirit and looks at how the rocks of our life, our shadows, and our greatest challenges can support the expansion and sharing of our greatest gifts. Bringing teachings from Kabbalah, I Ching, and Zen together for inspiration.

Do you feel like “The Weight of the World” is on your shoulders?  I’m reminded of the Talking Heads song “Once in a Lifetime,” where David Byrne croons, “Well, how did I get here?”  It’s a good question.  What is this “weight?”  Are we really serving what is on our shoulders by heaving it around with us wherever we travel?  What would happen if we just let it all go?

Think of your life as a tapestry. Which specific stories fill in the gaps and make you feel completely whole? If your memory feels a bit blank right now, don't worry. You can hunt for those missing, soul-stirring stories in many rich landscapes. We’ll begin the search together.

As we celebrate American’s 250 birthday, let’s return to some first principles. We speak of the American experiment at times as if we are lucky to have made it this far.  Yet, early Americans understood some things perhaps more recent generations have forgotten.  Take this idea of “The pursuit of happiness.” It didn’t mean “live your best life” in terms of having fun and accumulating wealth, but it meant a pursuit of ongoing learning, of embodying virtue, and endearing friendship, the kind that could withstand even the most fervent disagreements.  These more than anything, are the foundation of a long-lasting democracy not only of country, but of spirit.

Sun., June 28
Yes x 3
Welcoming in Your Highest Good
with Josh Reeves

If it is true that our Good is all around us, then it is up to us to welcome it in. How do we say yes so that we can embrace this Good in all aspects of our life? There are three yeses that are a good start and provide a positive self-examination.

Two-Week Sunday Series
The Abundant Universe
with Michelle Medrano

Sun., June 21
A New Design for Money

Sometimes we get so caught up in money that we miss the magic of it showing us our abundant nature. There can be a balanced celebration of money in our lives if we let it.

Two-Week Sunday Series
The Abundant Universe
with Michelle Medrano

Sun., June 14
The Dance of Abundance

As we get into the flow and dance the dance of abundance, it shows up in our lives. But, you have to know the steps.

Sun., June 7
The Good That’s All Around Us
with Josh Reeves

If the gift of Life is already made, then our part must be to accept, receive, believe in and use it.
–Ernest Holmes

Religious Science teaches that we are surrounded by an Infinite Good—a forever source of love, abundance, and well-being. This Good is ever available to each of us. But there’s a catch: This Good can only be received through the quality and receptivity of our own consciousness.

Sun., May 31
The Holy Ordinary
Glorians, Guadalupe, and Grace Hidden in Plain Sight
with Zemirah

Explore how to create a conscious partnership with God, with Infinite Power, with grace, drawing inspiration from the unified devotion of Guadalupe's pilgrims and the Glorians of our everyday lives. Discover how shifting our perception opens us to the Sacred hidden in plain sight.

Sun., May 24
Spiritual Mastery
The Three Attributes of the Spiritual Master
with Josh Reeves

Is it possible that you have already reached a level of spiritual mastery? Or that you are a spiritual master and don’t know it? Learn about the three attributes of spiritual mastery. You may surprised you already have them.

Michelle Medrano and Karen Russo talk about financial wellness

Two-Week Sunday Series
The Power-Path of Heart Work
with Roger Teel

Sun., May 10
The Power-Path of Heart Work, Part II
with Roger Teel

Dive into the many ways that a commitment to heart-centered living can empower us and lead us forward. We are all endowed with healing and transforming power. We can all tap into an innate guidance and creative genius. We can all live from a place of compassion, kindness, peace and joy. The portal to all these blessings is our spiritual heart.

Sun., May 17
Embracing Our Original Innocence
with Michelle Medrano

There is a great power in doing the healing work that leads us back to our spiritual center. Explore those benefits and how we can effectively do the inner work.

Michelle Medrano and Roger Teel talk about financial wellness

Josh and Rama talk about healing in community

Two-Week Sunday Series
The Power-Path of Heart Work
with Roger Teel

Sun., May 3
The Power-Path of Heart Work, Part I
with Roger Teel

Dive into the many ways that a commitment to heart-centered living can empower us and lead us forward. We are all endowed with healing and transforming power. We can all tap into an innate guidance and creative genius. We can all live from a place of compassion, kindness, peace and joy. The portal to all these blessings is our spiritual heart.

Sun., April 26
Cohesion in Manifestation
with Michelle Medrano

When we have a goal or intention in mind, how can we keep from sabotaging or neutralizing the momentum in our consciousness? Embracing and utilizing our power to be cohesive is a key.

Sun., April 19
The Great Unraveling
with Josh Reeves

Environmentalist and scholar, Joanna Macy’s three stories apply to how we care for our Earth and the narratives that exist co-currently in our lives. “Business As Usual,” speaks to the status quo; “The Great Unraveling,” where things seem to fall apart; and “The Great Turning,” where we find hope and tenacity.

Sun., April 12
Truest Power
with Michelle Medrano

Power or force? Power or control? Power or helplessness? 
How much of our lives do we live in one of these states or the other? Explore the embrace of our truest power.

Sun., April 5
Easter Sunday
I Can See Clearly Now
with Josh Reeves

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone.
I can see all obstacles in my way.
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind.

It's gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day.
It's gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day.

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone.
All of the bad feelings have disappeared.
Here is that rainbow I've been praying for.

Look all around, there's nothing but blue skies.
Look straight ahead, nothing but blue skies.

It’s gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day.
Oh, what a bright, bright sunshiny day.

Music: Featuring guest artist Hazel Miller

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Mile Hi is a New Thought church in Lakewood, Colorado. Practical and universal spirituality, affirmative prayer, meditation, and oneness are at the heart of all we do. Our community focuses on healing, growth, empowerment, positive living, mindfulness, a grounded spiritual path, overcoming anxiety, focusing on forgiveness, and fostering healthy relationships. Michelle Medrano and Josh Reeves are the lead ministers teaching the Science of Mind and Spirit.

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Sun., March 29
Riding Into Our Truth
with Michelle Medrano

Palm Sunday invites us to live our most authentic selves. Through a Science of Mind lens, Jesus’s journey becomes our own—moving with humility, courage, and spiritual clarity as we release old identities and welcome the peace that comes from living our truths.

Sun., March 22
Living Out Loud
Souls On the Loose
with Jackie Harris

Hear powerful stories of women who refused to stay small. Learn the New Thought principles that can break old patterns, trust your inner voice, and live with unapologetic authenticity.

Two-Week Sunday Series
Spring Renewal 2026
Authentic Intelligence

Sun., March 15
What Is Your Source?
with Josh Reeves

Everything is a mirror reflecting who you are back to yourself. Is your mirror on your phone or in nature? Is it fake news or critical thinking? Is it artificially generated or authentically cultivated? Learn how to clarify and return to the mediums that connect you to your true source.

Two-Week Sunday Series
Spring Renewal 2026
Authentic Intelligence

Sun., March 8
Heart Wisdom (So You Don’t Lose Your Head)
with Josh Reeves

Artificial intelligence isn’t bad. But if we don’t balance it with heart-wisdom, we may lose our heads. If we can remember, celebrate, and practice the ways of the heart, we can give artificial intelligence its due and go about living love-inspired and meaningful lives.

Sun., March 1
Living in and as Wholeness
with Michelle Medrano

Wholeness lives at the center of us and as us. Yet, we tend to persist in focusing on where we are broken and where things in life are broken.  How can wholeness be the truth of us when so much about life is broken

Sun., Feb. 22
Living in and As the One
with Michelle Medrano

How can we take the assertion of our teaching of Oneness from a nice spiritual notion to a useful, healing, and embodied experience? Explore mystical and scientific ideas to deepen our sense of living in, and as, the One.

Josh & Jackie on healing, spirituality, and the power of community.

Could it be that saying I love you gets in the way of really meaning and showing it? Explore love as a transformational way of being in communion with all of life, including ourselves.

Sun., Feb. 8
How To Change Your Life Forever, Today
with Josh Reeves

Change rarely takes place in the blink of an eye. Sometimes it takes a daily practice that addresses our way of being. Slights shifts in ourselves, how we relate and view this sweet and messy world we live in can change our lives forever, today.

Josh & Zemirah on healing, spirituality, and the power of community.

Sun., Feb. 1
The Sacred Mountain
From Summit To Soil
with Zemirah

Across wisdom traditions, the sacred mountain is a place of awakening, a pilgrimage of clarity and perspective. But transformation doesn’t end at the summit. Explore the timeless rhythm of ascent and return, considering how moments of insight are meant to be embodied in our work, relationships, and daily choices.

Four-Week Sunday Series
Back To Basics 2026
This Thing Called You
with Josh Reeves

Sun., Jan. 25
The Spirit in You

“Your mind is an outlet through which the Creative Intelligence of the universe seeks fulfillment.”

In what is often an inability to understand the world around us, is the draw to reexamine that world which is within.

When we understand ourselves, what Ernest Holmes referred to in his spiritual classic from 1948, as This Thing Called You, we begin to come to terms with the judgments and misconceptions we’ve had about the life that is within.

We can come to realize the greater truth, that the life within is Sacred, it is Creative, and it is a Healing Power. Holmes tells us that It is the greatest discovery we will ever make and the greatest gift we have ever been given.

Four-Week Sunday Series
Back To Basics 2026
This Thing Called You
with Josh Reeves

Sun., Jan. 18
The Beloved in You

“Your mind is an outlet through which the Creative Intelligence of the universe seeks fulfillment.”

In what is often an inability to understand the world around us, is the draw to reexamine that world which is within.

When we understand ourselves, what Ernest Holmes referred to in his spiritual classic from 1948, as This Thing Called You, we begin to come to terms with the judgments and misconceptions we’ve had about the life that is within.

We can come to realize the greater truth, that the life within is Sacred, it is Creative, and it is a Healing Power. Holmes tells us that It is the greatest discovery we will ever make and the greatest gift we have ever been given.

Four-Week Sunday Series
Back To Basics 2026
This Thing Called You
with Josh Reeves

Sun., Jan. 11
The Healer in You

“Your mind is an outlet through which the Creative Intelligence of the universe seeks fulfillment.”

In what is often an inability to understand the world around us, is the draw to reexamine that world which is within.

When we understand ourselves, what Ernest Holmes referred to in his spiritual classic from 1948, as This Thing Called You, we begin to come to terms with the judgments and misconceptions we’ve had about the life that is within.

We can come to realize the greater truth, that the life within is Sacred, it is Creative, and it is a Healing Power. Holmes tells us that It is the greatest discovery we will ever make and the greatest gift we have ever been given.

Four-Week Sunday Series
Back To Basics 2026
This Thing Called You
with Josh Reeves

Sun., Jan. 4
The Creator in You

“Your mind is an outlet through which the Creative Intelligence of the universe seeks fulfillment.”

In what is often an inability to understand the world around us, is the draw to reexamine that world which is within.

When we understand ourselves, what Ernest Holmes referred to in his spiritual classic from 1948, as This Thing Called You, we begin to come to terms with the judgments and misconceptions we’ve had about the life that is within.

We can come to realize the greater truth, that the life within is Sacred, it is Creative, and it is a Healing Power. Holmes tells us that It is the greatest discovery we will ever make and the greatest gift we have ever been given.

Sun., Dec. 28
Stay True To Yourself
with Jackie Harris

Set this as an intention for 2026 said by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Being authentic and embracing your unique qualities is indeed a remarkable achievement. It requires resilience and self-awareness. Are you ready to practice this in 2026?

Winter Solstice Service: Coming Out of the Dark with Patty Luckenbach and Special Guest Speaker: Doug Good Feather, Founder of the Lakota Way Healing Center

The winter solstice is a time to dance from the darkness to the light.

The celebration of the midwinter sun held a central place in civilizations throughout the ancient world. In the northern hemisphere, we acknowledge the shortest day of the year and celebrate the return of the bright rays of the sun.

In this special holiday conversation, Mile Hi Church music director Laura Berman and lead minister Michelle Medrano sit down with beloved Candlelight artists Gary Lynn Floyd, Cody Qualls, and Sheryl Renee to explore the memories and moments that shaped their musical journeys.

Sun., Dec. 14
Christmas: The Season of Returns
with Roger Teel

They say Santa delivers; we return! The conclusion of the season before us finds many of us waiting in long return lines. It makes us wonder what is the real meaning of the giving. What do I truly want? And am I ready to receive with openness and joy? The answers could lead us right to the heart and magic of the season.

Sun., Dec. 7
Gifts of the Heart
with Josh Reeves

It may sound airy-fairy to ask, “What does my heart want for Christmas? It’s not a ‘thing.’ It’s a quality of life. Receive some gift ideas to share that will uplift the heart and doesn’t cost a thing.

Sun., Nov. 30
Putting on an Armor of Joy
with Zemirah

Explore what it means to consciously clothe ourselves in the vibration of gratitude, laughter, and light, even in the amid challenges. Drawing from sacred wisdom, spiritual psychology, and practical tools for daily life, we’ll look at how joy can become both our refuge and our resilience.

Sun., Nov. 23
The Wisdom of the Beatitudes, Part II
with Michelle Medrano

Continuing our exploration of the Beatitudes as articulated by Jesus, the last four will be examined.