KEPT BY GRACE
“Help us, save us, have mercy on us, and keep us, O God, by Your grace.” (Petition from a litany of the Byzantine Liturgy) This brief...
HUMILITY GETS A SEAT AT HIS TABLE
“Simon Peter said to them, ‘I am going fishing.’ They said to him, ‘We will go with you.’ They went out and got into the boat, but that...
A SINLESS LIFE?
"As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was...
SPIRITUAL STAGNATION
“When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be made well?’” (Jn 5: 6)...
WALKING IN HIS LIGHT
“For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been...
UNREASONABLE FORGIVENESS
“Then Peter came and said to him, ‘Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?’ Jesus said...
DON’T LIVE A COMPARATIVE LIFE
”Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them…When Peter saw him, he asked, “Lord, what about him? Jesus...
ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
“When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to...
TRUSTING OTHERS
“But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, ‘We have...
STAYING FOCUSED IN A STORM
”…And early in the morning he (Jesus) came walking toward them on the sea. But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were...
