When you turn to God for help and clarity, He can bring to light what is good and what is evil but are you willing to listen? Spend time this week looking at the things which influence your life and prayerfully
we find there’s a problem that needs to be resolved. A scroll needs to be opened. But no one is worthy to break its seals, open it, and look inside. The scroll is crucial to open because it will announce God’s response to evil in the world. It will reveal God’s justice...
who make fun of us. This means we are called to love people with different races and cultural backgrounds. This means we are called to love unborn children and those who abort them. We never condone sin, but we sit with sinners. We never celebrate evil, but we give ...
Nevertheless, this was another challenge to the Jews that may cause a work stoppage. A letter was crafted by the Jews, describing their efforts and their authority to perform the work. In this letter, that Tattenai and Shethar-bozenai sent off to Darius, the Jews declare they are the ser...
16Rejoice always,17pray without ceasing,18give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.19Do not quench the Spirit.20Do not despise prophecies,21but test everything; hold fast what is good.22Abstain from every form of evil. ...
Volume 1, Chapter 2: The Fall, the Curse, and the Flood Quote "Four great events changed the primeval world from the 'very good' world, as it was described by God himself at the end of the six days of creation to 'this present evil world,' as the apostle Paul called it in the ...
God is calling for acts of love, and, as Saint Paul tells us in another letter to another group of people, we can perform many marvelous acts – but if we have not love, real love, then we are nothing. Doing good and being good is about being in intimate union with Goodness Itself...
the Sodomites’ punishment to the eternal punishment of the evil angels. Just as God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell, so He did the same with the Sodomites when He “condemned them to extinction and made them an example to those who were to be ungodly...
God created man, male and female, after the image of God with reason, and the law of God written in the heart (also known as the conscience); and He gave them a command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. With the power to obey and the possibility to trans...
Reflect then how great an evil it is for us, who ought to live so purely as not even to need written words, but to yield up our hearts, as books, to the Spirit; now that we have lost that honor, and are come to have need of these, to fail again in duly employing even this ...