Live your religion
If we live our religion, there can be no doubt in our minds – or in the minds of others – that God is real.
Come, let me wash and heal you
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“‘If I do not wash you, you will not take part in my Kingdom. (John 13:8)
“Soul that I love, and all of you that I love, listen. It is I who speak to you, for I want to spend this hour with you.
“I, Jesus, do not separate you from my altar even if you come to it with your souls damaged by wounds and diseases or wrapped in lianas of passions which humiliate you in your spiritual freedom, handing you over, bound, to the power of the flesh and its king: Lucifer. read more…
Is your agenda about you or love?
Our job is not to control, judge or rescue others – unless of course they are too young or unable to help themselves. Our job is to love. Sometimes, all we can do is extend a helping hand, intervening if necessary – and try to show the way – leaving others free to accept or refuse our invitations of love and to accept the consequences of their actions.
Refusals to our help should not be met with demands and shouting, but with heartfelt imploring at most, followed by prayer and, if necessary, fasting.
Loving others is not about making us feel good or inserting ourselves into the affairs of others – even if it’s for their own good. Rather, it is our service and thanks to God for the gift of life and knowing Him.
In the end, the response to love and all results must be entrusted to God.
Do not be a slave to your thoughts
How often we suffer needlessly because we automatically accept our random thoughts – or others’ – as absolute truth. We must learn to distinguish our inmost self and affirm our freedom to decide apart from thoughts that pass through our head, often fed to us by the evil one or by those who – unwittingly or not – have become his pawns. Moreover, we must evaluate all things in the light of Christ. read more…
If Love Exists …
If love exists – a love so vast and powerful as to create our universe with its billions of galaxies, stars and planets – then we are who are thinking, reasoning beings must ask ourselves what we are to make of it.
If that same Love perfectly created the human being as its masterpiece of all creation -infusing it with an immortal, spiritual soul and giving it an intelligence and reasoning beyond all other created things – then we must use that intelligence and reasoning to understand and appreciate our origin.
We who believe these things cannot walk around like zombies cut off from our souls and the God who created them. We must dig into our inmost depths and wrestle and grapple with the truth of our being.
What’s Keeping You from Holiness and Wholeness
Each of us holds something back from the healing fire of God’s love for fear that it will burn up and leave us with nothing.
The question is, what am I holding back and still trying to contol within my limited capabilities. And why? read more…
Sing a New Song
O sing Him a song that is new, play loudly with all your skill. (Psalm 33)
The invitation to sing God a new song is not meant only for singers, musicians and composers. It is meant for every person of faith.
So what does it mean to sing God a new song? read more…
An Avalanche of Sin is Swallowing Us
How did our country become so corrupt? Why doesn’t God intervene to punish the “great sinners” and deliver the few believers who remain faithful? What good can come from all the evil that continues to go unchecked?
We live with these questions every day as the wickedness of our world seems to increase exponentially. And never before have we witnessed such a sense of powerlessness to do anything about it. read more…
Eve and Mary Both Born Immaculate
Eve, biological mother of humankind, and Mary, spiritual mother of humankind, were created free from the stain of sin; both were immaculate.
But what different paths they took.
One said “no” to God in the best of circumstances and the other said “yes” in the most difficult.
The Divine Gamble: The Creation of Man
God rolled the dice when He created man. And yet, He knew what He was doing. Backing His bet – the wager on the table – was the life of His own Son, Jesus.
On the other side of the bet was man’s free will and soul – threatened by the instigation of the Envious One. read more…