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This morning was absolutely horrible. Do you know the kind of day I’m talking about? Where everything seems like it’s out to get you and even the furniture is on the attack? It all began with a nice alarm blaring in my ear… apparently for over 30 minutes. As IContinue Reading

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During the process of my conversion, I was uninterested in the Catholic faith. Coming from the particular protestant background that I was raised in, the Catholic faith was not only foreign, but looked down upon if not looked at with outright contempt. My wife and I had married with theContinue Reading

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Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger The book of James is quick to remind us that part of our Christian duty is to listen to another.  It’s strange though to think that the average thought of what itContinue Reading

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So what stage or degree of faith should you or I have? Should we seek the “highest” stage? Should we all hope to reach the point of a totally sacrificial faith? No doubt, we all tend to see that as an ideal. But dare anyone tell you where you shouldContinue Reading

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Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!  There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!  Do you think that I have come toContinue Reading

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These words still echo throughout the world, as Jesus hung on the cross giving his life in love for each one of us, he uttered the words that would change history. “It is finished.”  We have so many who take this to mean that they are finished too, that whatContinue Reading

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There are three camps in Christianity right now that seem to be the most prevalent, and two of them I find to be fatally flawed and separate from the Gospel according to Jesus Christ. Both have their merits, but both are lacking something to be complete. The first is the camp thatContinue Reading