Values
“Whether we realize it or not, we are growing in the image of something or someone every day of our lives. We can easily become living...
Spiritual Blindness and Deafness
“There are both different degrees of blindness as well as different kinds of blindness. There is physical blindness in which the eyes...
Baptism and Repentance and Regenration
“Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently...
Unbelief and Disbelief
“… unbelief and faith are equally a part of the death and resurrection of Christ. The death and resurrection of Christ contain the utter...
Drift/Drifting
“The Lord is always waiting for us to unite ourselves with Him in love, but instead we drift further and further away from Him…So many...
Footprints
“While we yet live, we retain the ability to leave footprints. Whether we are married or unmarried, single or divorced, whether we live...
Judgmentalism
“I think that that it is fair to say that there have been times when we have all criticized someone unfairly. Although we don’t know all...
Asceticism
“…asceticism is the path to holiness, growth, and stability…If we practice asceticism and strip away our ego, control our ‘false self’,...
Self-Preservation
“…because we fear death we often engage in self-preservation to the point of sin – we are willing to make sure others die so that we...
Anger
“As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a...