Seeds
“It is God’s desire that every single human be saved. God planted His truth like seeds throughout creation and in each human. Every human...
Salvation
“…Chrysostom understands original sin not in terms of inherited or personal guilt but in terms of an inherited mortality that causes...
Suffering (Attention and Focus)
“I believe that the question of innocent suffering and the existence of God may be the most significant and essential question of our...
Self-Examination
“We have said that sins brings death to the soul. It’s hard when the soul of a man dies. But God has the power to raise the dead. This is...
Works (Good Works)
“When the Lord Jesus addresses His disciples openly before a multitude assembled in Roman Palestine, He reminds us that the faithful of...
Spiritual Foundation
“Neurosis is a personality crisis. This is the clash of the desired and actual. And this is often a spiritual problem. An unrestrained...
Sickness (Illness)
“Life itself is a form of ascesis. People just don’t recognize it, and lose heart.”…The fact [life], is ascetic in nature means it...
Seeing
“People always seem to be thinking too literally, and Jesus is always moving them from the literal to the spiritual level—to seeing...
Temptation
“One who determines to serve the Lord will be tested and face temptation (see 1Co 10:13). Thus, we prepare our soul for this challenge to...
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...