Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.

Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord.

Prayer makes coffee shops of our souls, places that celebrate and savor the presence and lordship of God in our lives. It must be unceasing and constant. It must become who we are.

So we do not read the Bible simply to fill our minds, but to change our hearts. We do not read the Bible simply to be informed, but to be conformed to the image of...

‎”Being most concerned with God’s righteous judgments rather than the biased judgments of mere men, I have been standing…for the cause of Christ”. ~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

Girls aside, the other thing I found in the last few years of being at school, was a quiet, but strong Christian faith – and this touched me profoundly, setting up a relationship or faith...

Praying because you’re afraid is not like praying because you have faith. Faith and fear never meet. If you are faithful and still feel scared, it’s whether you’re not praying right or not praying at...

Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign...

Truth is rarely simple and seldom obvious, which is why mature institutions recognise the importance of conflict and disagreement. Christianity was born in conflict, and it has been characterised by conflict ever since. The Church’s...

It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom’s specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.

We often speak of Anglican “comprehensiveness.” If this is a way of making relativism palatable or a means of accommodating all shades of opinion with no regard for truth, then it needs to be rejected....

Now there are quite a lot of things which these two men could agree in doing for their fellow citizens. Both would approve of efficient sewers and hospitals and a healthy diet. But sooner or...

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual...

Jesus didn’t fight against what was wrong. But he fought for what was right.

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the...

This is, indeed, an insightful observation. The Archbishop [Joseph L. Berardin] insists that the natural resemblance between Christ and his priests must not stop merely with the fact that they share a common masculinity. Our...

These questions are difficult. The answers are not obvious, and so there should be some pausing, some angst, some honest uncertainty as people struggle to decide the best course of action. But I see none...

An I mo chridhe, I mo ghraidh. – In Iona that is my heart’s desire, Iona that is my love.

Prayer reaches into the supernatural with seeds of faith that grow into natural occurrences disguised as coincidences, but we know better.

But as a family physician, I’d had the opportunity to come in contact with people of all ages, and through the years I’ve noticed a curious parallel: children and the elderly both have the same...

But it was never actually that big a deal. Jenkins didn’t really disbelieve in the Resurrection: he merely questioned the historical veracity of the New Testament narratives. It was mildly interesting: one side saying “I...

Remember, morality is God’s standard, not humankind’s standard. So it is important that we understand the process that God used to bring us his wisdom, truth and historical perspective.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch.

When God justifies a sinner everything in God is on the sinner’s side.

And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,And as each blow was paid with Blood,You paid me also each great sin with greater graces.For even as I killed You,You made Yourself a...

If you want to follow me, you have to be willing to give up everything.

What is really stopping you from running to the battle line? The giant problem itself, or a giant lack of faith?

I am simply not enough in myself, but in Him I am. This surrender is not weakness, but the only true measure of strength any of us have.

How, then,’ I hear you ask, ‘shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?’ Your Christian love and your socialism and your American democracy are what you do each...

There’s a place for doctrine and dogma, and science and history and apologetics, but, these things are not Jesus – they are humanly manufactured attempts to make people think that having the right ideas is...

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the...

When the Lord makes it clear you’re to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.

Does anyone in this room have it?””No, Chris, no one here has it.””How do you know?””Because the mark was dark skin. Negroes are the descendants of Cain.”I didn’t have my civil-rights sensibilities yet, but I...

No innocence can shield a man from the calumnies of the wicked. […] As a shadow follows its substance, so envy pursues goodness. It is only at the tree laden with fruit that men throw...

Have you by any chance an edition of St. Ignatius’s treatise against the Gnostics?” he asked in a low clear voice. The young assistant looked gravely back. “Not for sale, I’m afraid,” he said. “Nor,...

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

the stranger’s room.” Not because these people thought they could trace something of someone they loved in the stranger who used it, not because the man or woman to whom they gave shelter reminded them...

In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when...

We have deficited upon their attention in the most disorderly fashion.

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we’re headed right back toward The Virtues.

Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.

Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

While I knew that true beauty came from the inside, I had missed the fact that God doesn’t make mistakes. He makes us who we are – forming us in our mother’s wombs (Ps. 139:13),...

If the Cross is God’s masterpiece of His love, then the Eucharist is the centerpiece of our worship.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one’s greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God...