Freedom (as and through Love and Service)
“…Christianity is fundamentally about freedom in Christ….freedom is difficult to discuss or describe, since it does not conform to what...
Love (As Christians Should Love)
“…love is to be actively expressed through tangible behavior. Hence when Saint Luke quotes Deuteronomy 6:5 [you shall love the Lord our...
Children and Parents
“God is not just Father of the divine Word, but stepfather to all who are baptized. God is not just a friend in Christ, but the...
Love (Wrong and Right Kind)
“Our spiritual struggle is not only a choice between good and evil, but between God and self (or self-centeredness). The choice is...
Begotten/ "Only Begotten"
“For this is the way God loved the world: He have His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have...
War
“Conquest is an evil productive of almost every other evil both to those who commit and to those who suffer it.” (C.S. Lewis) “The Lord...
Character and Choices
“All of life’s choices have consequences, consequences for ourselves and consequences for the world around us. And when we fall into the...
Genuine
“ ‘For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt’ (Mark 9:49). Being seasoned with fire means...
Adoption
“The genealogy [Luke 3:23-38] follows Joseph's ancestry, even though Jesus was only supposed to be the son of Joseph but was in fact...
Healing (through love, compassion, service)
“Indeed, Peter and John place no faith in their own abilities [Acts 3:1-8]. They trust wholly in Christ’s authority. They give what they...