As the old song goes – and yes, we’re talking quite old! – “What the world needs now is love, sweet love, it’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.” If you know this catchy ditty, it’ll now be stuck in your head for the rest of the day. But whether the tune [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Tough Love
Posted in Faith Takes Action, God is Calling You!, Make Disciples of All the Nations on February 27, 2012 |
Through Prayer
Posted in A Time To Pray, Faith Takes Action, God is Calling You!, Have Hope, Make Disciples of All the Nations on February 21, 2012 |
Jesus loves to heal. Jesus wants to heal. Jesus will heal. In those days when he walked this earth, the Lord made the blind see, the Lord made the lame to walk, the Lord made the deaf to hear, and the Lord made lepers clean. Even that greatest of maladies – death – was healed [...]
Ridiculed and Despised
Posted in Do Not Be Afraid, Faith Takes Action, God is Calling You!, Make Disciples of All the Nations on February 13, 2012 |
In his famous and exceedingly challenging, Litany of Humility, Rafael Cardinal Merry Del Val (1865-1930) has us pray . . . “From the fear of being ridiculed, deliver me, Jesus; from the fear of being despised, deliver me, Jesus.” Given the cultural climate of our day, those are words we do well to pray often. [...]
Momentary Joy
Posted in Encounter Christ, Joy, Simplify, The Playfulness of God on February 6, 2012 |
Because I am a Christian man, I cannot say what I truly feel about the recent prognostication made by an unnamed groundhog regarding the purported length of the winter season. I mean, come on man . . . er . . . rodent, really? Have you actually looked around? There’s no snow, no ice, no [...]
