Deaden/Deadening
“Double-mindedness (James 1:8) speaks of one who has two loyalties, love of the world competing with love for God (see Mt 6:24). Such...
Spiritual Milk
“Peter tells his newborn converts to do: “like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow up to...
Praise
“We are God’s vineyard, charged with bearing fruit and offering “the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving...
Obedience
“While the rich man was probably being sincere when he insisted I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws [Mark 10:20], he had confined...
Genuine
“ ‘For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt’ (Mark 9:49). Being seasoned with fire means...
Conscience
“In the original Greek, the word for “conscience” has the root of self-knowledge…The conscience is the witness that compares one’s...
Consent
“ ‘Then Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve’ (Luke 22:3). Satan does not enter a man except by the...
Love (Sacrificial)
“Let us enlarge the hope within us by our feeble efforts to keep the commandment to love. Like infants, we mimic our loving Father and...
Religion
“Man-centered ritualism is deadly….Ascetic practices—prayer, fasting, almsgiving—are taught by God (Matthew 6), but enemies lie along...
Childlikeness
“After we have repented of our sins, renounced our wickedness, and have been purified by baptism, we turn back to the eternal light, as...