Grace (Willingness to Receive)
“All the Christians of St. John’s time, by “receiving of His fullness,” the “grace for grace,” actually shared in what the Logos...
Kenosis (Self-Emptying)
“In Christian theology Jesus Christ is said to be the perfect human. This is partly why we are called to imitate him (1 Cor 11:1) if we...
Ego (Self-Will)
“…the opposite of love is ego…love is outwardly focused while ego is inwardly focused. Our little ego continually limits our worldview,...
Reductionism
“We live in a culture of statistics – and they hide a lot. They obscure us in the reduction of our lives to generalities. None of us is a...
Drawn Away/Fall Away
“Sensuality and pride…are precisely the qualities that manifested themselves, as we know, in the original sin of the primeval people and...
Awareness (of God's Presence)
“But if we have food and clothing, with these let us be content” (1 Tim. 6:8).8 The Lord is always showering His gifts on us, but often...
Focus
“Rather than support a life of prayer our society keeps us perpetually distracted and erodes our ability to concentrate, compromises our...
Created Order
“Our roots, our heritage, and our life experiences shape us, for in them, as in every aspect of the created order, the hand of the Lord...
Passions
“Sin and passion are inextricably linked, but they should be considered separately. We call sin a person’s action which violates one of...
Love and Worth
“…views modern man as an ‘achievement-subject’ where personal identity and self-worth is not related to relationships, duties, spiritual...