You need the Holy Spirit’s witness every day-on your job, at home, at school. You need to rightly judge politicians and leaders so you will not suddenly be sucked into the antichrist system. This is that Jesus was trying to tell us about the foolish virgins who ran out of oil in their lamps (see […]
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.Joel 2:31 The days roll by in this dimension, one after another, but not forever. There will be an end to this life, only God knows when, and we’ll stand before the Creator of the […]
I met with John again a week later. His face looked like he’d just been told his best friend had died. “What’s wrong, John?” I asked. “That getting rid of all the impurities in my heart and seeking all that’s true is really hard, Pat,” he mumbled. I smiled. “It’s more than hard, John; it’s […]
I was studying the beatitudes with John, a man in his 30’s struggling with alcohol addiction and freshly out of jail – again. We had reached the 6th beatitude when he asked, “Pat, what does it mean to be pure in heart?” “What do you think it means, John?” He had a blank look on […]
Some time back I was going through a spiritual dry spell during a time I had taken on two new clients in my business coaching and was editing a book that had almost as many errors as there were sentences in the manuscript (a slight exaggeration). In addition to this were the controversies over wearing […]
This is a metaphor, based on Scripture. Each person is a vessel, filled either with himself/herself or God. He is the Potter; we are the clay. He is the Creator; we are the creatures. Without Him, there is no vessel. The outer wall of the vessel is the body; the inner wall, the soul. You […]
Blessed are the poor in spirit…who are empty vessels ready to be filled by God, who take no account of themselves or their accomplishments, who serve their Master with all their hearts and with all their souls…for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
“You shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3 We seem to do OK with the first commandment, but two verses down we encounter God’s statement that He’s a jealous God. “For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God.” Exodus 20:5 What are we to make of this? Jealousy is not an admirable trait in […]
As we’ll see in the following Joshua 5:13-14 passage, this is the wrong question. Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” “Neither,” he replied, […]
If you’ll remember, three weeks ago Padraic was talking to Matthew about what Jesus said at the Last Supper: “Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him (John […]