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Friends, I always love preaching on the Feast of the Holy Family because I think the biblical message here is very surprising. We say the Bible is associated with family values, and indeed it is, but they're probably not the ones we would automatically think of. We see this in th ...  Show more

Friends, for the next several weeks, we’re going to be reading in our Gospel from the primal teaching of Jesus: the Sermon on the Mount. And we begin today with a kind of overture to it, which we call the Beatitudes. “Beatitudo” in Latin means “happiness”—the one thing we all wan ...  Show more

Having consistent and transformational encounters with God while on earth is meant to be foundational to the Christian life. Our God has not left us. Through the sacrifice of Jesus, we’ve been filled with the very Spirit of God who longs to reveal to us daily the nearness and lov ...  Show more

Sometimes God will speak things that contradict what we see with our eyes. If you want to see His promises come to pass, you have to learn to listen with your spiritual ears. 

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As we begin to wrap up our week on living poor in Spirit, today we’ll examine the life of Jesus as our example and how he always put others first. As we seek to understand how to live a lowly life of love, may you be envisioned and encouraged today to love God and others well. Go ...  Show more

An Authentic Interaction With Jesus is What Sets Us Free From Sin- A Devotional Look at the Woman in John 8 – Day 5   Sin. We need to deal with it. And We can’t do it on our own. When we bring our sin before Jesus, He leaves us changed. It’s that interaction: experiencing His lov ...  Show more