Letting Go
“Acquisition and its strategies obviously have a role in life. It is important to pursue and acquire good nutrition, reasonable health, a...
Freedom
“Freedom is an essential characteristic of the Christian life Christ promised that the truth would set us free…The experience of freedom...
Passing Judgment
“…the command to “judge not” does not mean that Christians are not to make judgments about whether a behavior is right or wrong. We must...
Crave/Cravings
“...unredeemed humanity craves to do what is forbidden…Sometimes temptation surprises us with a sudden and unexpected assault. At other...
Promises
“An oft-neglected emphasis in the New Testament author’s explanation of Christ’s resurrection is justification in the sense of...
Bible/Scriptures (Putting on Christ)
“We also heard today from Saint Paul these words: “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its...
Blame
“Divine foreknowledge [of God]…takes away neither…moral freedom nor…accountability. For God, all things are a present reality; He...
Heart (Good and Bad)
“The treasure in one’s heart is the intention of the thought, from which the searcher of hearts judges the outcome. Hence it quite...
Pure Heart
“To spend time with someone who has learned well the battle of the heart is to sit at the gate of paradise. On some few occasions I have...
Christian Life
“The Christian life is, properly, a life of spiritual asceticism in which we seek to shed that which is not truly ours. This is not...