Comfort and Discomfort
“...the world is not interested in giving, or forgiving, or joy, or peace. It is interested in survival, in making a buck, in comfort and...
Salt
“The Lord and His prophets and apostles lived in a culture that often used salt to ratify everyday agreements. Salt symbolizes fidelity...
Alienation
“Being alienated from God (whether by choice, training, or circumstance) is true death, because God is the Source of life. Life is His...
Touch
“The poor diseased woman could not come to Jesus for the press, and you are in much the same condition, because of the rush and throng of...
Heart (Spiritual Heart Disease)
“Through sin, we clog and plug up the line between us and God, effectively blocking the Holy Spirit...Our genuine tears, our humbling...
Teaching (Discipling)
“Teaching “about” the Faith is not the same as “discipling,” a distinction the Lord Himself makes in His Great Commission: “Going,...
Idolatry
“…life is shaped not only by natural forces and human actions but also through the active presence of God in it through Christ and the...
Prayer (and the Poor)
“Lift up and stretch out your hands, not to heaven but to the poor; for if you stretch out your hands to the poor, you have reached the...
Bad Choices
"The Fall of mankind away from God is essentially a corruption of the will of man, making it difficult to choose what is right and...
Authority and Submission
“Any form or expression of authority, then, must not be the expression of human pride but of humility before God, of assimilation to the...