What does it mean to renew your mind?
In today’s readings, we hear this exciting line: Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what the will of God is, what is good and pleasing and perfect. While praying over these readings, I kept being drawnContinue Reading
A String of Pearls
A friend and I were talking about the movie “Evan Almighty.” In this movie, God has asked Evan to build an ark. Everyone thinks it’s silly and that he is crazy. His wife is at her wit’s end and is struggling with the whole idea. Sitting eating fish at aContinue Reading
Conduit of Grace
I am not big into crowds. Luckily my favorite grocery store is open twenty-four hours so I can do my shopping during the hours most people are curled up on the couch watching T.V. During one such visit I noticed a man and his son also doing some late-night shopping.Continue Reading
The Reason
“Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year for you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are, each one, to take a lamb for themselves, according to the fathers’ households, a lamb for each household. Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and hisContinue Reading
Which Cross Do You Choose?
“Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, bowing down and making a request of Him. And He said to her, “What do you desire?” She *said to Him, “Say that in Your kingdom these two sons of mine shall sit, one at YourContinue Reading
To Eat Meat or Not to Eat Meat – That is the Question
“Now He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and began praying this in regard toContinue Reading
Our Little Sister
When I was a younger man, my mother, and father began to foster children from broken homes to give them a new start. One of the young children who came to live with them had been severely neglected and abused. She would flinch when someone would move their arm aroundContinue Reading