Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone! Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God, with your whole heart, and with your whole being, and with your whole strength. Take to heart these words which I command you Read more…

Many of us spend some time at the beginning of a new year reflecting on our lives the past year or maybe even longer. And when we do that, quite a few of us find things within ourselves that we Read more…

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I command?” Luke 6:46  “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction and those who enter through it are Read more…

My wife, some good friends and I had just finished dinner and were sitting around the dining room table talking about God the other night. The conversation started with a question something like this: “We begin our spiritual journeys by Read more…

  There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” Read more…

A few days ago, a friend of mine was talking about work and she asked me, “When someone is gone, do we miss them or do you miss them?  I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say, wow, I’m so Read more…

Jesus tells us in Matthew 19:29 that they that leave all things will receive a hundredfold in return. “And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake Read more…

The other evening I was reading—rereading actually—a book called Stumble, Virtue and Vice and the Space In Between, by Heather King, when I ran across this quote written by a nun on retreat in 1992:             Look for the good Read more…

  “If God wills nothing but our best good, and if He has the power always to get what He wills, and if He makes no mistakes about what is in fact our best good, then it necessarily follows, it Read more…