It is one thing to love sin and to force ourselves to quit it, it is another thing to hate sin because love for God is so gripping that the sin no longer appeals. The latter is repentance, the former …
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Commonplacing
“The proof that God raised Jesus from the dead is not the empty tomb, but the full hearts of his transformed disciples. The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away …
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“And then came words they had not heard before. ‘Take, eat; this is my Body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ They must have looked up, startled. What did he mean? They must have looked …
Read more →“…heaven is the name of our authentic vocation as human beings; heaven is the final truth about the earth…Heaven is what Christ gives back to us, what we lost through our sin and pride, through our earthly, exclusively earthly sciences …
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Under the spiritual practices tab I wrote about Lectio Divina, which is a way of reading Scripture that goes beyond knowing about the Scripture to receiving it “into our bones” through reading and reflection. One way to approach this is …
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