It is introduced by an explosion of colors.  Red, white, and green usher in and sustain a season of magic and life.  Bursting with spiritual significance, the season calls us to our God, and invites us to remember what he has done for us and in us.  The Spirit speaks to our souls in the [...]

Tomorrow is Trinity Sunday, one of the high days on the Christian calendar. Unfortunately – even tragically – this doctrine plays a minor role in our thinking, I’m afraid. Kim Fabricious’ propositions help to explain why it is crucial that we learn to understand what it is we claim about God when we say God [...]

Philippians 4: 12-14Philippians 4: 12-14English: World English Bible – WEB12 I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. 13 I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. [...]

In prayer and meditation we develop an awareness that there is a lot more taking place in creation than we are conscious of. It is often easy to interpret the world through the lenses of our disappointment, fears, happiness, etc., but the feelings that we have at any one moment, while important and real, cannot [...]

Shallowness of spirit is a result of what the Bible calls a stiff neck or a heard heart; i.e., resistance to the grace of God’s correction and discipline, and a callous disregard for others. Proverbs spells out the fate of those who persist in this obdurancy: Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to [...]

I said Sunday night that Satan destroys God’s work in our lives by enticing us to think conventionally, convincing us to apply ‘common sense’ – rather than Gospel sense – to our situation. As an example, I cited Peter’s rebuke of Jesus: ‘Never, Lord! This shall never happen to you!’ (Mt 16.22). What was this, [...]