Aug 15, 2018 | Word Among Us
With age-old love I have loved you; so I have kept my mercy toward you. Love is a term that we throw around a lot. We love chocolate and ice cream and water parks and the color purple. But this kind of love is different from our love for our family or our...
Aug 14, 2018 | Word Among Us
Jesus went up on the mountain by himself to pray. Walking across campus at the University of Marseilles, an economics student observed a priest praying his breviary. For Jean-Baptiste Chautard, this seemingly mundane experience “produced in me an urgent need to pray...
Aug 13, 2018 | Word Among Us
Jeremiah . . . was not handed over to the people. There was great tension in the Temple of Jerusalem. One prophet, Jeremiah, proclaimed a different message than all the others: repent, or you will end up like Shiloh. Shiloh had been the city where the ark of the...
Aug 11, 2018 | Word Among Us
They took offense at him. You might find it surprising how often Jesus offended people. There’s a great example in Scripture, when the people of his hometown are at first amazed and then take offense at Jesus. The Greek word Matthew used for “took offense”...
Aug 10, 2018 | Word Among Us
The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea. Fishing nets are designed to scoop up everything in their path. So naturally, when a net is hauled into the boat, it contains all sorts of things: edible fish, inedible fish, crustaceans, sea urchins, as well...
Aug 9, 2018 | Word Among Us
As for my God, may his mercy go before me. Imagine driving down a crowded street with only the use of your rearview mirrors. The idea is laughable—and more than a bit dangerous. It just doesn’t make sense to drive while looking backward. This isn’t a bad image...
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