I totally get that there is a concern that too much study OF the Word and not enough intimacy WITH the Word is a very real temptation. After all, we can know the Scriptures backwards and forwards and not really know the Lord, meaning we don’t have an intimate relationship with Him. J...
We will take our sons and daughters. We will also take our animals, because we must have a feast to worship the Lord.’ 10 Pharaoh said to them, ‘No! If I let you go with your families like that, you will need the Lord to take care of you! I can see that you want to make...
We pray for the removal of the evils of intemperance, of slavery, of superstition, of idolatry; yet these may be so interlocked with the customs of a country, with the interests of men, and with the laws, that they cannot be at once eradicated except by miracle, and the answer to the...
33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. 34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come. 35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him...
God’s Plans and Purposes Posted onMay 26, 2022 Reply Growing up, I had this wall-hanging in my house that had a quote like this. “God has a plan for my life and that’s all I need to know.” A sweet friend of mine had given it to me and it hung in my living room, remin...
It is these things that we need “the eyes of [our] heart enlightened” to in order that we may inwardly “know…the hope of His calling!” The Eternal Purpose and the Internal Purpose (1d – Individual + original song) Part 1d continues with a look at the “possessional” aspect of...
If you are under intense stress and don’t see a way out, remember that God is with you through all things. In the bible, when Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were in the fiery furnace, the furnace was heated up seven times hotter than usual!
life but a life that carries a responsibility to bear your cross. Count the cost, sometimes there may be hardship . Often ,our flesh will have to die and if we are really honest with ourselves ,we can prayerfully invite the Lordship of Christ in areas of our lives that need ...
It constitutes such a great good for the Church that we cannot expect any greater gift from God1. Eucharist is a great mystery! It is a mystery that must be appropriately celebrated2. Realizing how great that gift is leads us to a deep need for examining the origins of the Eucharist in...
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. —E. Merrill Root 49 We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the sh...