Biblical as well as modern-day examples demonstrate this general cycle: First, God provides for His people all by Himself. Then His people remember that they can depend on Him. Then they forget. Then God provides for His people all by Himself again so ...

The secret to knowing Christ is to let Him reveal Himself however He desires. And the secret to knowing any eternal mystery grounded in Christ is to surrender to Him so He can teach us whenever and however He knows is best. When in doubt, the secret to ...

If you checked out the statistics, mobile Operators in India seem to be raking in their moolah from Value Added Services and guess which VAS ( Value Added Service) people are subscribing to on an increasing basis at a pace that is nothing less than Scorch...

We can’t help surrendering ourselves to one master or another. We are built for worshipping either God or something else, as our unconscious habits demonstrate every day. And, from my experience living in the U.S., I gather that the most prevalent fal...

Be in love with somebody is a blessed thing, yet also an awful evil spirit. Without love we aren’t able to stay alive. When people provide one another love it gives them force and self-assurance in themselves. “Of Love and Other Demons”, by Gabriel ...

Christ Himself is the overarching First Rule. He envelops our lives in the workplace, marriage, familiar relations and (especially) in the way we do church. The Son of man is the singular Focus of our lives, working Himself out day after day as He patie...

Could it have been God who inspired this drunken stupor called “religion?” No, God would not encourage men toward something that makes them to forget Him. Such is the madness of religion in general, that it drives its adherents to c...

“When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of the wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.Oh you may feel this touch, it is not the clasping of hands,...

We churchgoers have our certain ways of doing things, which we love for their familiar ease. Our love for familiarity even leads us to lift up tradition as profound or meaningful in itself. However there is nothing inherently meaningful about tradition ...

I very seldom get lost when I am going somewhere. That is, unless your definition of seldom is every time I need to find a new place. Then all options are out the car window. Still I need to understand what you mean by “lost.”L...

A Christ-centered economy would the richest kind of economy. Practically speaking, Christ-followers must be extravagant spenders and givers, people who, when they see a need, will spend, give and do everyt...

We have been functioning by God's mercy all along, even if we’ve been unconscious of this fact. It is literally true that we live from mercy to mercy, from grace to grace. After we acknowledge this, then we might move on the next step, which is to del...

“So God said to Noah, ‘I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pit...

Bible study is an important part of the Christian faith. In these turbulent and busy days the audio Bible has become an important part of Bible study for many people. Even when it is challenging to find th...

They both depended on each other. Sierva Maria felt like zero without Father Cayetano. This is what makes love "the most awful fiend of all." Maria just feels extraordinary when she is with Cayetano. What about all the times she's not with Cayetano? She'l...