Forgiveness
“Forgiveness is not a feeling. You do not get instant gratification from it. It is, instead, a decision we make as an act of our will.”...
Gospel/Good News
“The meaning of the Gospel is revealed to us precisely when we try to fulfill it. Since it’s mostly just distracted reading for us, it...
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...
Invitation
“...God comes into our lives when we invite Him with all our being, opening the gates of our heart from the inside. He will not come...
Fear
“Our Lord Jesus Christ warned us that we will hear all kinds of bad news from around the world, and Christianity may go into decline. Far...
Perfectionism
“We have to follow our life’s path, although our life isn’t always perfect. Let’s not just stand around waiting for everything to be...
Christ Crucified
“…the Lord’s death on the Cross was no impersonal payment, no supernatural transaction to balance the scales of divine justice…The...
Obedience (and Trust and Knowing God)
“We all have the experience of falling into our familiar sins again and again. Instead of being disheartened to the point that we no...
Healing
“…Church is a hospital. The model of a courtroom or a business or even a social club is misguided and lacks the heart and the purpose of...
Sin and Being
“ ‘But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it’ (Genesis 4:7)....