“Were you there when they crucified my Lord?”  So go the words to the title of one of the songs that is customarily sung each year on Good Friday.  It is a day when Catholic Christians come together to venerate 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…

Paul tells us that “we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access [by faith] to this grace in which we stand, and we boas in hope Read more…

Advent is the season of expectation of the Christ.  Although it has a somewhat penitential tone to it, the focus is on the coming of the Messiah (deliverer), Jesus Christ. From the time of the Babylonian Captivity the Jewish people Read more…

  It’s Not About Me. It sounds so simple. But it has proven extremely difficult for me to remember and to apply to my everyday life. It has been challenging to live as if the purpose of my life is Read more…

I will restore you to health; of your wounds I will heal you, says the Lord.    Jeremiah 30:17 Back in 2003 I was diagnosed with a condition called Tracheal Stenosis which is scarring in the airway that causes the Read more…

  SACRIFICIAL GIVING About a month ago, you might remember there was a hurricane by the name of Matthew that ended up going up the Southeastern United States coastline. Before it got to the US, it inflicted its wrath on Read more…

While attending a meeting this week I heard the phrase “a joyful disciple” in terms of what being a Christian was really all about and it was used in the context that I should be helping to create “joyful disciples”.  Read more…