How to be a witness? Jesus tells the disciples just before He ascends into heaven that they will be His witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, and throughout the world. What does it mean? What does it take to be a witness? Let me ask you to approach it this way: Take a moment and think about […]
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The Great Paradox of Palm Sunday
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! – humbling himself in front of you? But that’s what He did: He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey instead of […]
A Conversion Journey
Lent calls us to repentance and conversion. Living stewardship is a conversion journey toward a mature discipleship. We are to accept the loss of all things, as St. Paul told the Philippians in Chapter 3:8 – things like our ideas of success and happiness and the urge to buy more and more stuff considering it […]
The Gospel Calls Us to Live Differently
The Gospel calls us to live life differently. We see an example of that in Luke 5:11 where Jesus calls Peter, James, John, and Andrew to follow Him, to make them fishers of men. They dropped their nets and did just that. They left everything to follow him. They lived their lives differently from that […]
All is Gift!
God is outrageously generous. As God owns everything (1Chron 29:11-14, Col 1:16), then everything we have is a gift to us from God (Dt 8:18, Acts 17:25). Truly, what do you have that God has not given to you? He gives us everything – every moment of time, every ounce of talent and ability, and […]