Sacred Space
“The narrative of Creation is the story of God creating a sacred space in which to dwell with His creation, humanity…What we see in...
Suffering (Accepting or Avoiding It)
“We know that the Lord is anointed by the Father so that He may actualize the kingdom of life in this world through His suffering and...
Receiving
“It takes the spiritual gift of discernment to recognize the difference between what comes from our own ego and what comes from the...
Rejecting God
“Jesus now describes the guilt of the world. He came to these people with both words (15:22) and sign-miracles (15:24), yet they remained...
Prayer and Virtue
“There are two ways in which the prayer of a righteous man is effective. The first is when the person praying does so by offering to God...
Reconciliation
“It is that divine initiative, that self-offering by God Himself, which elicits from us faith manifested as repentance and good deeds....
Receptive
“The Holy Spirit, one of the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity comes to abide in us, God’s people, if we are receptive to having the...
Spiritual Sight
“ ‘…now my eye sees You” [Job 42:5]: The gift of spiritual knowledge—that is, when we begin to perceive the hidden things of God—is...
Tested/Testing
““Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham. . . .” By choosing Christ as our supreme authority, we have accepted...
Willpower
“In his disobedience and expulsion from Paradise, man lost the grace of the Holy Spirit (My Spirit shall not remain)…Without the grace of...