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There is a place for emotion in spiritual experience. The Holy Spirit's... ministry is not limited to illuminating our minds and teachin...

Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason ...

Why must we go out to the far ends of the world to preach the Gospel of Jesus when people do not have to know Jesus in order to enter the ho...

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not ...

Nearly sixty-five years ago, Father George Zabelka, a chaplain with the U.S. Air Force, met with the airmen who dropped the atomic bombs on ...

What finally counts is not whether we know Jesus and his words but whether we live our lives in the Spirit of Jesus. The Spirit of Jesus is ...

$46 billion - Amount spent per year globally on bottled water $1.7 billion - Amount needed per year beyond current spending to provide clean...

"You are fed up with words, and I don't blame you. I am nauseated by them sometimes. I am also, to tell the truth, nauseated by ide...

You yourself are the child you must learn to know, rear, and above all enlighten. To demand that others should provide you with answers is l...

Jesus is the door to a life in and with God. "I am the gate," he says (John 10:9). "I am the Way; I am Truth and Life. No one...

My early experience of power was the fear-based, coercive power of a fundamentalist institution. My angry reaction to the abuse leaked out i...

Oh, profound wisdom! It is pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson a celebration, instead of a...

Pain and sorrow are never wasted when given into God's hands, and their transformation is far beyond our imaginings. But in this life, w...

The great mystery of the incarnation is that God became human in Jesus so that all human flesh could be clothed with divine life. Our lives ...

True evangelism, based on the example of Jesus, does not suggest the "missionary zeal" of self-righteous proselytizers. It implies...

" Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid, The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; He has become my salvatio...

The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one au...

The death and resurrection of Jesus are God's way to open for all people the door to eternal life. Jesus said: "When I am lifted up...

When Jesus came close to his death, he no longer could experience God's presence. He cried out: "My God, my God, why have you forsa...

In the spiritual life we have to make a distinction between two kinds of loneliness. In the first loneliness, we are out of touch with God a...