Obedience (and Trust and Knowing God)
“We all have the experience of falling into our familiar sins again and again. Instead of being disheartened to the point that we no...
Fruitful vs Fruitless
“Good people do not keep Christ's word written on paper, for paper is external to man and can be lost. Neither do they only keep it in...
Healing
“…Church is a hospital. The model of a courtroom or a business or even a social club is misguided and lacks the heart and the purpose of...
Incarnation
“We serve one another because we know that the world is full of pain and suffering caused by sin. We serve one another because we would...
Solitude /Stillness /Silence
“Our lives are often filled with tensions and judgments with jealousy and greed – all of which serve to deaden our hearts and make us...
Fear (and Love)
“Sin enters into mankind through death, and the fear of death is the occasion of all our sin and our slavery to that fear (Heb. 2:15)....
Ego (Self-Will)
“How do you know if you’re in demonic possession? How do you know if you’re deceived? Well, you don’t know, really. Every day I should...
Repentance (God's Love and Patience)
“The Church speaks to us about the power of repentance and gives us an image of how a man can rise up from the abyss of sin to the...
Gnosticism
“Another reason we have lost respect for bodily purity is that we moderns have a tendency towards gnosticism, the belief system which in...
Trials and Temptations
“What is the danger of being astonished when such a trial comes? Let’s go back to the Last Supper that Jesus had with his disciples....