Keeping God Off Your List
We would be wise to make lists for ourselves of what to do for the holidays. But it is important to keep God off our lists.
Course at the Cleveland Ecumenical Institute
Political Power, Personality, and the Sovereignty of God:
The Books of First and Second Samuel
Take It In. Spread It Around.
We must take God’s affirmation in. We are always inclined to look at the negative parts of our life. But there is no power in our failures.
In Relationship Forever
There’s a German proverb which says, “Those who live in Christ will never see each other for the last time.”
Use It or Lose It
Unless we are growing, we are slipping back. We are either coming closer or falling away from God.
The Greatest 3 Commandments
The great commandment according to Jesus is the triple commandment of love: to embrace God’s love for us, so that we can come to an adequate love of self, so that we can extend that love to others.
What Belongs to God?
Once we believe in God, we realize that all we have is not our own. Everything has been entrusted to us to be used for God’s purposes.
Happiness in an Unfair World
The truth which underlies the Parable of the Workers is that life is unfair. There is no way to insure that each person receives what they deserve.
Forming a Face
Ronald Rolheiser has suggested around the age of 40 the lines of most people’s faces are set. From that age onward, every face betrays a certain character, a certain personality, and a certain kind of beauty.
Living in Visible Power
What is the value of belonging to the Church? What benefit is there in having a shared identity as Catholics? What advantage can we see in being a part of an institution?
A Gospel for a Pluralistic City
Christianity was an urban phenomenon. Although the origins of the Christian movement in the ministry of Jesus were rooted in the rural soil of Galilee, the spread of the gospel took place in the urban centers of the ancient world.
“Lord, It’s Me”
Faith begins in the love of God. Faith has to be personal, believing in a God who cares for us and will act on our behalf.