What if my priorities about what matters to God are wrong? After all, I am a sinful person, aren’t I? Therefore, I am somewhat blinded by sin, prejudiced in all my judgments.
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By today’s standards, Jesus was a loser. That’s good news for us.
Why do we preach a crucified, humiliated savior? Because humility opens us.
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God’s love will never overwhelm you
Love created us to be distinct from itself so that we could choose to love. It will not annihilate us, overwhelm who we are.
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The Assumption of Mary tells us who we are meant to be
Doctrines and dogmas do not exist to provide esoteric data. Their purpose is always to tell us who we are, to proclaim who we can be in Christ.
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Partisanship and the kingdom of God
Who would claim that the platforms of either the Democratic or the Republican parties fully mirror Gospel values?
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Why do we find the end of the world so entertaining?
There is a reason apocalyptic movies make so much money.
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To be a Christian is to live in patient expectation
You cannot be a Christian and not live an eschatological life, which is to say, you must live one marked by a patient expectation in the promise and plan of Jesus.
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How do we know if our prayers have been answered?
When we truly give ourselves to prayer, we know that we are in the presence of another—not always but rather often without any doubt.
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The Eucharist is the opposite of fast food
Fast food makes only one promise. That it is fast. Christ promises to feed us with food that will last.
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How we know God intends to be fair
To preach Jesus is primarily to preach a path, a call to action, not ethical precepts.