Humility and Failure/Weakness
“For all of us who feel the burden of having failed Christ at some point in our lives, we have the example of the Apostle Peter, who...
Thoughts (during Prayer)
“Prayer is strange stuff. As a purely mental event it can be indistinguishable from the running dialog that goes on in our heads all the...
Essence (of God)
“God is beyond our human conceptions and we cannot describe Him thoroughly with human language. But the Church Fathers go even further:...
Love (Growing Cold)
“The Lord says that because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold (Matthew 24:12). Usually this point is presented as...
Community, Individualism, and How to Live
“So we see dramatized in Genesis the bitter “fruit” of an approach to the interpretation of spiritual realities that attempts to be...
Memory (Remember)
“There was once a woman who went to church for thirty years. When she got sick, she was scared and said to her priest, “Father, have I...
God's Presence
“I truly felt the presence of God, and this feeling was reflected in my love for going to church… And I didn’t have this religious life...
Devotion
“This is what Christ means when He says that all the Law and the Prophets are contained in these two commands–He means that the Law and...
Creation
“God creates the cosmos so that love between beings is possible. God creates the world with the intention of entering into the world in...
Sorrow
“Even among those of us who call ourselves Christians, the concept of godly sorrow (2 Cor 7:10) is not well understood. How easy it is to...