Lent is fast approaching. What’s your plan this year? I believe one of the most important things we can do each Lent to grow in holiness is to immerse oneself in the lives of the saints. How do we do this? By reading about them. Decide to fast every day from some of your own […]
Many today search for joy or express that they’ve lost joy in life or work. Although joy can be experienced in external circumstances, it is actually an internal disposition of the mind and heart. Joy is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit—alongside patience, kindness, generosity, love, gentleness, peace, faithfulness, and self-control. If it
Our God is a God of second chances. With steadfast love that never ceases, and mercies new each morning (see Lamentations 3:22-23), Jesus calls us daily to conversion and repentance of our sins. How do we effectively show repentance to receive Christ’s healing mercy? By possessing contrite hearts, moved by grace in response to His
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The Holy Spirit cautions us in Hebrews, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts…”(Heb 3:7-8). This scripture verse continues with a reminder of God’s address to the Israelites in possession of hardened hearts, “as in the rebellion, as on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors put me
Humility means having a lower view of one’s own importance; freedom from pride and arrogance; and, in a religious sense realizing that without God one is and can do nothing. Often, in order to understand humility, one has to experience it—see it with one’s own eyes and feel it in the heart. It is both
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Lent is just around the corner. Why not try something new this year? Have you ever set aside time during Lent for spiritual enrichment? The most productive Lents I have experienced are the ones in which I have made spiritual reading a priority. At the end of Lent, the goal is to feel closer to