Moonrise: The End of Our Dominion
I am a bow on Your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I …
Category: death to self
First Things First: Love G_d, Love People, And Fear Not
God gives His communion to all who love Him. Communion with God is life and light and sweetness with all the good things that He has. But those who …
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
(Latin: If you want peace, prepare for war) We live in a culture that, as Cardinal Francis George said, “permits everything and yet forgives nothing.” And so people despair …
Guarding Against The Identity Theft of Licentiousness
Grace is no more a license to sin than electricity is a license to electrocute yourself. ~Dr. Paul Ellis … If then you have been raised with Christ, seek …
Cutting Away Our Self-Regard
February 28, 2019 abandon, Dead to sin, death to self, Freedom, Holy Spirit, Life in The Spirit No Comments
“Then the lion said — but I don’t know if it spoke — You will have to let me undress you. I was afraid of his claws, I can …
Kingdom Mysterion
When are we living in Christ? When we live according to His Gospel and His Church. For He Himself, and not only His Gospel, is in the Church with …
Death’s Work in Our Lives
Death is only painful to him who resists it. The imagination exaggerates its terrors. The spirit argues endlessly to show the propriety of the life of self. Self-love fights …
Out of The Black Hole of Self-Regard
Hans Urs von Balthasar said it best: we do not live in an ego-drama. We live in a Theo-drama. Life does not work any other way.
