SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“Reading the Scriptures, studying the church fathers, attending worship, praying, and meditating are all good and godly things. But they...

“God places man in a garden of paradise “to tend and keep it” (Genesis 2:15), honoring him with the gift of free will…“He desired that...

“In the heart that knows nothing but love, there is no distinction between the love of God and the love of neighbor. The Apostle writes...

“…humility is to love the Lord Jesus, to continue to implore Him for mercy and for love, even in the face of what can appear to be...

“According to our modern idea of individualism everyone has his own ideas. Each one of us has his own opinion. And most likely these...

“…the apostle writes that “we are not those who draw back to perdition” (Hebrews 10:39.) The word in the Greek refers to those who...

“Man-centered ritualism is deadly….Ascetic practices—prayer, fasting, almsgiving—are taught by God (Matthew 6), but enemies lie along...

“When we separate faith from everything else, we make it into belief. It becomes the assent to the truth of something that cannot be...

“The genealogy [Luke 3:23-38] follows Joseph's ancestry, even though Jesus was only supposed to be the son of Joseph but was in fact...

“…even if we have spent time pursuing our deepest desires through the means that were not set up by God, even if we have become addicted...