The Satisfaction That Defeats Sin

God is pursuing with omnipotent delight a worldwide purpose of gathering a people for his name from every tribe and language and nation. 

This is the essence of what it means to love God: to be satisfied in him — not just his gifts, but God himself, as the glorious person that he is. 

The Reformation celebrates how embracing Christ as our supreme treasure in faith is how we enjoy God’s fellowship. 

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Friends, this Sunday, I want to talk to you once again about faith. As I’ve said before, faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabulary. And both the first reading and the Gospel today shed very interesting light on the nature of faith, which is not a kind of ...

Friends, on this Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our second reading from the Letter to the Hebrews offers us a great biblical description of faith. I stand with Paul Tillich, the Protestant theologian, who said that faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious voc ...