Healing and Wounds
“How can we pray when we feel overwhelmed by forces we cannot manage, when our vigor and capabilities are insufficient to meet the...
Impulse and Impulsivity
“When things do not happen as expected, we are often at the mercy of our impulses. The accusation of a lowly servant girl ambushed Peter...
Word of God
“In modern Christian discourse, the phrases “the Word of God” and “the Word of the Lord” are commonly used to refer to the Scriptures....
Attachments
" 'In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all of own possessions' (Luke 10:33). The...
Repentance (as Life)
“By holding on so tightly to our sense of self, we choked God, strangling him, and put him to death. ‘But,’ you might ask, ‘can God die?’...
Fire (Divine and Spiritual Fire)
“There is within every human person gold and silver and mud and dross. Life in this age has been given to us for repentance and the...
Betrayal
“…most of our sins are not sins of violence, but sins of affection gone wrong. After all, who is it that we sin against the most? Our...
Salvation
“…salvation is something plainly visible – salvation can be seen by all humans. Salvation is thus not merely a theological concept or...
Negativity
“The average lifespan of an emotion is about ninety seconds. However, when we replay painful memories, or when we ruminate over...
Light
“For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the...