Self-Centeredness
“We live in an age of impatience and self-centeredness. Anything other than instant gratification easily leaves us frustrated, angry, and...
Weakness
“Although it is not readily apparent, we experience disappointments and hardships first as shame. It is only after the experience of...
God's Love
“As soon as the Lord looked upon this paralyzed man and looked upon the faith of those who brought Him, He immediately said to the man...
Contentment
“From a lack of contentment comes death…What we see in the Garden is paradise. A place of intimate and immediate communion with God,...
Reductionism
“This reduction of the world to information is a common error of the modern period. The world and data-about-the-world are considered to...
Cross
“The Cross is not so much something we did to Jesus as it is something He did for us. It is voluntary. It is revelatory. The Cross makes...
Distraction
“…we are always blessed when we urgently serve the Lord, for He is our true life. He is able to draw us out of the slough of secular...
Shame
“We do not always press the point of our shame to a place that is unbearable, but we do well to learn how to go to that place when we...
Discernment
“We should pray for the ability to distinguish discernment from judgment. The word discernment is derived from the idea of perception. It...
Individualism (Modern Notions)
“It is insistence on the individualistic mode of the created that constitutes ‘evil’ and freedom from this mode, self-transcendence in...