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What is righteousness? It’s when God sees what you did and says, “My Son would do that.” Of course, that’s impossible, so God works on us to make us like His Son, and then He even treats us like Him. We have an amazing family. Blessings! —j
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The world doesn’t need more Christianity. Really. It needs Holy men and Holy women who shine in the darkness because they are with Jesus and He is in them and it shows. They are alive and of another world ruled by an invincible King; they practice a heavenly culture and speak the language of eternity and salvation; and they are thankful—always
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Bernard of Clairvaux was sainted because he loved Jesus, but everyone who follows Jesus is a saint, too. How can you tell? They are completely taken by Him, they do what He says because they love Him and they are thankful—really thankful. Like St. Bernard… What language shall I borrow to thank You, dearest Friend, For this Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity
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A college professor once told a pompous student, “Young man, I suggest you plunge your finger into a bowl of water and remove it—the hole that remains will show you how significant you really are.” Our world is driven by the fleeting and superficial—people, ideas and things that pave the way to human insignificance, but it was never meant to
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Jesus said. “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” “Love your enemy…” “Do good to those who hate you…” “Love one another as I have loved you.” “If you Love Me, you will obey what I command.” There’s your day. And the rest of your life. Any questions? —j
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Here I sit, recovering from a bad bout with food poisoning where the food won the first round. When your guts ache, news-watching seemed all the more painful, especially the blind and trendy attacks on the simple Good News that Jesus saves souls. But the message, simple as it is, is powerful beyond measure and in no danger
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Following Jesus? Wounds are assured. So is glory. Hast thou no scar? No hidden scar on foot or side or hand? I hear thee sung as mighty in the land, I hear them hail thy bright ascendant star; Hast thou no scar? Hast thou no wound? Yet, I was wounded by the archers, spent. Leaned
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Though he was fictional, the bishop in Victor Hugo’s novel, Les Miserables, was a masterful depiction of ministry. He held the pivotal moment in Hugo’s epic story of grace and salvation, and epitomized the influence of a man who, for the sake of Christ, was simply there… “M. Myriel [the Bishop of Digne] could be summoned at any hour to the bedside of the
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What will we do with eternity? More than we know, I’m sure. But perhaps the Apostle John gave us a clue. He ended his gospel with these words: “Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books
Jay McCarl 