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Do you see Easter in your Lenten observance?
Do you see Easter in your Lenten observance?
By Troy Kroening
What we give up or possibly add as a Lenten observation often times weighs on us. It can be hard. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, or a celebration at the end of the suffering in Easter. If we focus on the suffering, it may seem overwhelming. But what did Jesus do throughout His suffering? He was focused on Easter.
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Why Would God Send Anyone to Hell
Why Would God Send Anyone to Hell
By Lorrie McNickle
I find it curious that so many like to pose the question that I as well struggle with at times. the question is: Why would a loving God sent someone to Hell? I wonder though when confronted with this thought and worry, why do so many choose to jeopardize their salvation by rejecting God’s laws and love?
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Do we think in Abstract Terms as we walk to Calvary?
Do we think in Abstract Terms as we walk to Calvary?
By Ralph Hathaway
During Lent, we envisioned the suffering Jesus underwent on His way to Golgotha. We knelt at each of the 14 stations as He walked the Via Dolorosa, bleeding, living our pain, falling three times under our weight called sin. At the Cross He embraced, our hearts felt heavy.
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Jesus says, ‘Go, and Sin No More'
Jesus says, ‘Go, and Sin No More'
By Bill Dunn
In the Gospel reading at Mass this weekend, we have another example of God’s overwhelming love and forgiveness: the story of the woman caught in the act of adultery. Jesus’ opponents, the scribes and Pharisees, brought an adulterous woman before the Lord, and demanded, “In the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So, what do you say?”
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Time to Get Back to Basics
Time to Get Back to Basics
By Bill Dunn
Do you ever get the feeling that every aspect of your life has become fast-paced, frantic, and complicated? You don’t? Really? Well, then you’ll have to tell me the secret of your serenity, because these days my life feels like I’m pedaling a bicycle in the middle of the Indianapolis 500. Everything is swirling around me at breakneck speed.
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A Frank and Earnest Conversation About Metanoia – Act 3
A Frank and Earnest Conversation About Metanoia – Act 3
By Chick Todd
Aloha nui loa, Omea! May blessing always be with you and may God bless you, Belovéd! Today we pick up on the end of a conversation between two buddies named Frank (F:) and Earnest (E:) with some help from the Narrator (N:). We finished up with the Narrator asking, " (WHAT STOPS US FROM REPENTING?
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A Frank and Earnest Conversation About Metanoia – Act 2
A Frank and Earnest Conversation About Metanoia – Act 2
By Chick Todd
Today we pick up in the middle of a conversation between two buddies named Frank (F:) and Earnest (E: ) with some help from the Narrator (N:). We finished up where Frank had just asked Earnest about what would happen if he stopped taking his diabetes medication.
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A Frank and Earnest Conversation About Metanoia – Act 1
A Frank and Earnest Conversation About Metanoia – Act 1
By Chick Todd
Today I'd like to share with you a frank and earnest conversation about the "WHY" of metanoia {Grk: met-an'-oy-ah, Eng: met-an-oy'-ah}, the word used in the New Testament for repentance. It comes from the verb metanoeó {met-an-o-eh'-o} which means to change one's mind or purpose, or to turn around 180 degrees to accept the will of God.
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My 4,357th Second Chance
My 4,357th Second Chance
By Chick Todd
"PLEASE, just give me one more chance! I know I can do it!" How many times have we heard that one? And how many times have we thought, "What difference does it make? You're a hopeless case."?
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Forgiving you
Forgiving you
By Victor S E Moubarak
Adultery is no laughing matter, of course, although these days it is so common that it has become the subject of jokes. Many years ago adultery was a very serious matter indeed.
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#1 Frequently asked questions, "what is the Kingdom of God?" "What is the Gospel?"
#1 Frequently asked questions, "what is the Kingdom of God?" "What is the Gospel?"
By De Maria
The questions are very closely related, as we can see in this verse: Mark 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
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Satan; The Pinnacle of Evil
Satan; The Pinnacle of Evil
By Ralph Hathaway
When seeking to understand how evil can penetrate our psyche, how deeply rooted it can become within our existence, the stress to counter it may be bigger than most will want to address. However, evil does exist and in spite of our asking God to eliminate it the evil that we see daily in life’s trek gives us no solace.
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Prodigal Father Loves the Sinner
Prodigal Father Loves the Sinner
By Bill Dunn
This week’s gospel reading is the well-known parable of the Prodigal Son. As Jesus told the story, a young man demanded his inheritance from his father, took the money and traveled to his country’s version of Las Vegas.
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It Takes Great Faith
It Takes Great Faith
By Jean Smith
I recently attended a three-part Lenten Retreat led by Father Thomas Dragga, pastor of The Church of the Resurrection in Solon, Ohio. This is a reflection on his talk at St. Clements’s Catholic Church that I attended last week.
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Has God taken Second Place in our world; or has He lost All Positions?
Has God taken Second Place in our world; or has He lost All Positions?
By Ralph Hathaway
A most scathing thought that in our sophisticated world with most major religions preaching about God, His Mercy and Forgiveness, one would even mention that.
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Exitus Acta Probat
Exitus Acta Probat
By Joseph Michael
I find it odd that it has seemingly become fashionable for professors and theologians to promote the so-called “Empire-critical” method of reading the New Testament Scriptures. What I find most perplexing about it is that there is simply no legitimate basis for this approach.
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"Hate" The Most Heinous Evil we face
"Hate" The Most Heinous Evil we face
By Ralph Hathaway
“Tree of Life Synagogue, Squirrel Hill, Two Mosques in New Zealand, A Black church in Charleston, South Carolina”, to name a few where innocent worshipers were gunned down because of hate.
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