Secondly, God answers, surely, if there is no unconfessed sin in our lives.More specifically, if there is no “favorite sin” that we hold on to. Confession and true repentance are of utmost importance if we want our prayers to br heard. Isaiah 59:1-2 (KJV) Behold, the LORD’S han...
However, at my more mature age I’ve come to realize something. While I do love flamboyant shirts, lately I’ve been using them as a distraction. You see, I know what lies beneath them. For most of my life I maintained an active lifestyle and an athletic physique. On most Summer day...
), deeply struggling with my faith. From the moment I opened it, Buechner’s book was like a balm for my soul. I had come to the end of myself and my ability to process my struggle. Buechner’s book gave me language to express the spiritual angst I was feeling and let me know I...
“I bless you, prison—I bless you for being in my life—for there lying on rotting prison straw, I learned the object of life is not prospering as I had grown up believing, but the maturing of the soul.”—Alexander Solzhenitsyn “Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis ...
It was one of these Three who, in the presence of the other eleven, was said to have made the core confession that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of the Living God. According to Matthew 16, Jesus in return gave him pre-eminence: “You are Rock and upon this Rock I will build my...
Thank you for giving Your only Son to die for my sins. I praise You for granting me eternal life with You in Heaven because I have accepted Jesus into my heart as Lord, Savior, and Messiah. Direct me not to be distracted from the true meaning of Christmas or enticed by the calling ...
that Cy replied that the first time it came up, it would be dealt with. Others had doubts too, but Jimmy was received back into fellowship without morally resolving his role in the 1955 Cambridge and Westfield matter (when he had confessed his sin and then publicly withdrawn his confession)...
Bless my life with mentors to pour into my heart, and mentees that I may pour into. Connect the people in my life, and bloom relationships, the way only the blessing of Your hand can. In Jesus’ Name, Amen. 4. A Prayer of Clear Confession “If we confess our sins, he is ...
Matthew 16:18-19 –“Upon this rock (The confession of Christ – Revelation Knowledge) I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in...
The most touching was my saying Mass in St Peter's. In the sacristry the M.C. asked me would I like to say mass at the "Altar of the Confession". It seemed that the bishop who had booked it had slept in! The altar is in the deepest recesses of the crypt of the Basilica at ...