SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“Yet here [striving to do God’s will] is precisely where the conflict is great. What gives our inner conflicts their power over us? We...

“ ‘Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart’ (2 Corinthians 4:1).  In the face of...

“All of us have known moments during which close kin or wonderful friends have suffered a grievous loss. Our instinct is to go to them,...

“The godly suffer, in part, so that having experienced God's comfort they in turn can comfort others. Thus, Paul shows the fallacy in his...

“Even if we do not constantly struggle against “murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies” (Matthew 12:19),...

“The deeper meaning of “faith” (pistis) is “trust,” total and unwavering confidence in God’s utter faithfulness towards us. In response...

“ ‘Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. For from now on five in one house will...

“Christianity should not be reduced to political activism or the enforcement of morality, for societal reformation can take place only...

“At the tower of Babel, a ziggurat temple, the world’s people sought to bring God down and make Him take up residence in the tower where...

“Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin (John 8:21); “Therefore I said to you...