Attitude is everything. We all probably need an attitude adjustment. Pop-psychology tells us that our happiness and success depend on having a positive attitude. Our health depends on a positive attitude. Have you ever been told that you can beat your ailment or disease if you just have a positive attitude? Back in grammar school, […]
stewardship
Live Worthy of the Gospel
Stewardship is a way of life. It is a way to live worthy of the Gospel. Fr. Richard Rohr, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation teaches the Gospel is a call to live life differently; simple, humble, generous, accepting that nothing is perfect. In fact, God loves imperfect things and people. St. Paul […]
Who Do You Live For?
Why do you go to work? For what are you striving? For whose benefit? In other words, who do you live for? St. Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans that we must think of ourselves as being dead to sin and so living for God in Christ Jesus. (Rm 6:11) Many of us […]
God Willing to be Humiliated
Palm Sunday kicks off the great paradox of Holy Week. Can you imagine God, the omniscient, omnipotent Creator of the universe, the source of all we are and all we have (you know – God!) willing to be humiliated in front of you? But that’s what He did: He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey […]
What are you Steward Of?
We know how St Paul traveled all around the Middle East, Greece and Italy, preaching Jesus Christ. He described his work to the Colossians simply as being a minister in accordance with the stewardship God gave to him. God gave him the knowledge, wisdom, boldness, and fortitude to do that. Paul took ownership of the […]