One of them, a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth, from the city of Thyatira, worshiper of God, listened and the Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what Paul was saying. After she and her household had been baptized, she offered us an invitation, “If you consider me a believer in…[read more]
I shall no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learned from my Father. You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit…[read more]
Why, then, are you now putting God to the test by placing on the shoulders of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear? On the contrary, we believe that we are saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they.” Acts 15:10-11…[read more]
Remain in me, as I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself, unless it remains part of the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, as I remain in you, bears fruit in plenty; for cut off…[read more]
“Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace which the world cannot give, this is my gift to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. . . . If you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the father is…[read more]
“Friends, what do you think you are doing? We are only human beings, mortal like yourselves. We have come with good news to make you turn from these empty idols to the living God who made sky and earth and the sea and all that these hold.” Acts 14:15 We hear today of the…[read more]
“Where I am going you know the way.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but by me.” John 14:5-6 In the interchange…[read more]
“Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives one whom I send receives me; and whoever receives me receives he one who sent me.” John 13:20 We often speak of “contemplation” as if it is some kind of personal spiritual achievement. There is often about our way of speaking of contemplative action the sense…[read more]
The one who rejects me and does not receive my word has a judge; the word that I have spoken will serve as judge on the last day. For I have not spoken on my own authority; the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment of what to say and what to speak.…[read more]
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.” John 10: 25-8 The news about them reached the ears of the Church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to go…[read more]
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