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Does it ever feel as though the more you try to do better and live by God’s word, the hard the Devil tries to pull you back down? I thought about it for awhile and realized that the mantra, “The holier you get, the hard the Devil would try to pull you back down,” makes sense because when...
The world is constantly telling women that we aren’t good enough. We go unseen, unsought, unpursued, and this all leads us to believe that we are unworthy. Unworthy of what, you ask? Unworthy of happiness, joy, love, peace, and any good thing that life could offer us. These lies, straight from the...
We’re all like him.
Like Pontius Pilate we’ve washed our hands and told God that we wanted nothing to do with the good. We’ve all looked Jesus in the face and said, “Sorry, I want nothing to do with this.”
What kind of Christian response is that? I’ll tell you that...
One cannot write about the Catholic Church’s social doctrine without saying a thing or two about the dignity of work. The importance of work in Catholic social teaching is reflected in the fact that the first ever social encyclical — Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum — sought to address the situation of...
“Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
-1 John 4:8
John, the ‘disciple whom He loved,‘ was the youngest of all the Apostles and a simple fisherman prior to Jesus’s loving call. Even though he may not have been the brightest of Jesus’s twelve, even...
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Sexual sin hurts.
In the act, it doesn’t seem like it will leave deep scars. It does.
I got addicted to pornography. I never envisioned that would happen to me. I thought that happened to creepy old men and immature...
The Devil Made Me Do It
Worthy: See Yourself as God Does
The Pontius Pilate Within Us
The Essence of Social Justice Revisited
The Disciple Whom He Loved.
On Pornography: God’s Mercy Endures Forever