I know your works — your toil and endurance. I know you cannot bear evil people and have put to the test those who call themselves apostles but are not, and you have found them to be false. Endurance you have; you have borne up for my name’s sake and have not grown weary. But…[read more]
Jesus answered them: “The kingdom of God does not come by close scrutiny. Neither will they say, ‘Look! Here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’ For look, the kingdom of God is among you.” Luke 17: 20-1 I am so delighted, and comforted, to know of your love; they tell me, brother how you have…[read more]
Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy. 1 Cor. 3: 16-7 The United States has just completed a most contentious election…[read more]
You don’t say “Thanks“ to a slave, do you, for doing what was commanded? The case is the same with you. When you have done everything that has been commanded you, say, “We are useless slaves! We have done what we were supposed to do!” Luke 17: 9-10 Today is election day in the…[read more]
Jesus said to his disciples: “It is impossible for scandals not to happen. But woe to the person through whom they happen! It is better for that person to have a millstone hung around the neck and be thrown into the sea, than to cause one of these little ones to stumble. Pay attention to…[read more]
“I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from management people will receive me into their homes.”. . . The master praised the wicked household manager because he acted cleverly. Indeed the children of this age are more clever towards their own generation than are the children of light. Luke 16:…[read more]
As for the law I was a Pharisee; as for working for religion I was a persecutor of the Church; as far as the Law can make you perfect, I was faultless. But because of Christ, I have come to consider all these advantages that I had as disadvantages. Not only that, but I believe…[read more]
And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day. John 6: 39 In The Spiritual Espousals (II,ii,B), Jan van Ruusbroec writes of how the “enlightened person,” the person who is living…[read more]
Beloved, we are already the children of God, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been revealed; all we know is , that when it is revealed we shall be like him because we shall see him as he really is. 1 John 3: 2 In the opening of her…[read more]
There must be no competition among you; but everybody is to be self-effacing. Always think of the other person to be better than yourself, so that nobody thinks of his own interests first but everybody thinks of other people’s interests instead. Philippians 2: 3-4 Whenever you give a luncheon or dinner, stop inviting your friends…[read more]
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