“But from the beginning of creation, ‘Male and female he made them. Because of this a man will leave his father and mother, and he will be joined to his wife and the two will be one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh.’ What God has joined together, let no man…[read more]
Laborers mowed your fields, and you cheated them—listen to the wages that you kept back, calling out; realize that the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. On earth you have had a life of comfort and luxury; in the time of slaughter you went on eating to your…[read more]
Here is the answer for those of you who talk like this: “Today or tomorrow we are off to this or that town; we are going to spend a year there, trading, and make some money.” You never know what will happen tomorrow: you are no more than a mist that is here for a…[read more]
Where do these wars and battles between yourselves first start? Isn’t it precisely in the desires fighting inside your own selves? James 4: 1 “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they remained silent. For they had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest. Mark 9, 33-4 One of…[read more]
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace. James 3:18 Each morning as we pray the Canticle of Zechariah, we ask that: in the tender compassion of our God the dawn from on high shall break upon us, to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow…[read more]
Peter was grieved because Jesus said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” John 21:17 In asking Peter three times if he loves him, Jesus brings to the fore in this encounter with Peter the three-fold denial of…[read more]
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be where I am, to behold my glory, which…[read more]
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Make them holy in the truth, your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I make myself holy that they also may be made holy in…[read more]
I am praying for them, I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours; all mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. John 17: 9-10 A few days ago I was listening to a radio podcast in which a…[read more]
The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered each to your own home, and will leave me alone; yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. I have said this to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but be…[read more]
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