Out of the depths I call to you, Lord. Lord, hear my cry! May your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. If you, Lord, mark our sins, Lord, who can stand? But with you is forgiveness and so you are revered. I wait with longing for the Lord, my soul waits for his […]
O God, you are my God– for you I long! For you my body yearns; for you my soul thirsts, like a land parched, lifeless, and without water. So I look to you in the sanctuary to see your power and glory. For your love is better than life; my lips offer you worship! I […]
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to […]
More thoughts on us and what we’re trying to do. Here are some thoughts on things (beyond the obvious things) I’m thinking we should probably never do. Here are ten in no particular order. 1) We will never honor God by compromising the vision he gives us in order to keep people happy. […]
The Sunday before Thanksgiving feels like the beginning of a sprint to January. It’s a great time of year but there is so much ahead for us as a Church. As we look to this holiday season and the new year I see so many opportunities for our Church community. We have a really inspiring Advent […]
Friday evening I was with a bunch of Pastors and other Church leaders. Saturday I spent the morning at a Church conference, for Pastors and Parish staffs. These recent back to back experiences got me thinking and reminded me of some things I struggle with when it comes to “Church-world” and “Church people.” Here are […]
Most all of us want to be generous. Even if you don’t want it, you want to want it. You want to be a generous person. That word, “generous” means to act with nobility. We’d all like that, we’d all like to act with nobility. And that’s what God would like from us too. […]
We are into the second week of our annual Stewardship Series. This message is so important in any Church setting, but especially in a Catholic setting. In Catholic Churches the message of giving has been confused with fundraising for schools and capital projects, rendered less critical because Churches were staffed with free labor (and Catholics […]
There is an unmistakable correlation between the miracles God accomplished throughout the Bible and the unusual and sometimes seemingly unnecessary or even banal commands he gives to his servants. Over and over he asked his servants for obedience in little things, as a prelude to some big thing he is going to do. Obedience is […]
We are finishing up our first series of the season and we’ve been saying that our heavenly Father wants to put us on the right path in life. God wants to direct our steps and lead us down the path of a successful life. Sometimes when we take the wrong path, we blame God for […]
