and seeks him in personal enlightenment and higher states of consciousness and mantras and symbols and self-centered nonsense like that. A person who knows God (as unknowable singularity), finds God in the embrace and free conversation with fellow humans, so long as this conversation occurs in ...
Paul tells us he was crucified with Christ. We know he wasn’t put on that cross with Jesus. But Paul often talks about the surrender he made to Jesus that changed his life. He calls it dying to self. Paul doesn’t live on his own anymore. It’s Jesus living in him! I hope you...
And I kept going, and I changed my focus, my mantra. Now, what I was focusing on is not proving anything, but setting an example. And I said that to myself over and over, “You’ve got nothing to prove, just an example to set. You’ve got nothing to prove, j...
This past weekend my church celebrated 50 years of God’s faithfulness. On Saturday night over 700 people gathered to remember all that God has done, and on Sunday morning we focused on what God might do through CPC in the next 50 years. ...
We must rid ourselves of this mantra that speaks of going to heaven when we die, as if we will have come to the end of our journey. Heaven is indeed where the Lord is presently, but it is not our final home (Ps. 14:2; 20:6; 33:13; Ecc. 5:2; Is. 66:1; Dan. 2:44; ...
projects. But through his intelligence, his humanity, and his adolescent energy by manifesting the life of God received through the gift of Baptism. This was a reason for his constant mantra to himself and his friends, ‘we are all born unique, but many die photocopies.’ And his mother ...
“He did not so much talk about poverty as live it, to the very end, for our sake.” Francis urged people to “not let this Christmas pass without doing something good.” When the Mass ended, the pope, pushed in a wheelchair by an aide, moved down the basilica with a life-sized ...