Do you find that it’s hard to be humbe? Are you like Mac Davis and crow about how you’re perfect in everyway? Ha! I bet not. And good thing – Jesus tells us in Luke 14:11 “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Giving as […]
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Does Giving Cause Pain?
In Hebrews 12:11 it says, “At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain.” Is giving a cause for pain? Giving, especially when we give as God calls us to give, as the Church teaches – sacrificially, can seem to be a cause for pain. We worry almsgiving will be […]
Prepare the Way of the Lord
On this 2nd Sunday of Advent we read in Luke chapter 3 verses 1 through 11 how John the Baptist went around crying out, “Prepare the way of the Lord.” How do we prepare the way of the Lord? How will you receive God and bring Him to your family and to the world? John […]
Hold Nothing Back
There may be no better example of trust and generosity than the poor widow in Chapter 12 of Mark’s Gospel. You know the story of how Jesus praised her meager offering of 2 coins. But it was all she had. She held nothing back. She models a mature discipleship for all of us. St. Paul […]
James is Tough Love
James in chapter 5, verses 1-6 is tough love. He says, “Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries. Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, your gold and silver have corroded, and that corrosion will be a testimony against you; it will devour your flesh like a fire. […]