Recognising where we are, as individuals and parishes, can be a painful confrontation and truth but the Paschal Mystery reminds us that this truth, even painful as it may be, is the place of grace and the beginning of transformation. The plain fact is that comfort and complacency has never...
“Herbert’s passionate engagement with the Transcendent––among us, within us, over-against us––was not theoretical or abstract, but intimate and experiential, employing the first-person form of lyric poetry to open a clearing where his inmost feelings could show themselves to both the speaker...
the place of rest God beckons each of us toward. He met her in the middle of her pain, her shame, and all her striving, and rewrote her story—through grace. A grace bigger than her greatest failures and that proved sufficient for all her insufficiencies. Step by step, God taught thi...
who wrote this letter, was acutely aware of how precious time is having faced many hardships in his ministry. The underlying message being that life is short, and believers should
It’s a time we set aside for focused prayer, worship, and Bible reading, a time to fellowship with God and get to know Him better through His Word. It’s not a time of earning His grace and love. Instead, it flows out of our love for Him. ...
For more than 85 years, Our Daily Bread Ministries has been a donor-supported, non-profit ministry committed to nurturing a lifelong love for God’s Word as millions around the world grow closer to God and are transformed by their relationship with Jesus. Through our daily devotions, podcasts...
I don’t know how large your church is, but you might consider getting involved in some kind of ministry in your church or maybe there is a ministry that you could get involved with in your city. I love being able to serve in my church and using the gifts God has given me to love...
From my brother I got a daily, intimate account of what hospitalization has been like for almost 900,000 Americans so far. For two weeks he lay in an open ward, hardly sleeping because of the moans of others, some of whom were hallucinating. Hospital staff, shorthanded because of COVID,...