By way of reminder, I want to briefly go through the subjects that we have covered in the previous sermons that I have given so far this Feast. The first one ["Life, Fortunes, Sacred Honor"] had to do with being committed, wholeheartedly …
An air of excited expectation hovers in the room. A dozen or more guests, replete with party hats and favors, sit around a long dining-room table laden with gift-wrapped presents and a decorated cake. Six shining candles—five and …
The episode in John 8 of the women caught in adultery offers a stark contrast between the scribes and Pharisees and Jesus Christ in terms of their reactions to sin. The gospels contain several examples of Jesus having to deal with a …

(24) aAnd when the ten heard it, they were greatly displeased with the two brothers.
Matthew 20:20-26 records the occasion when the mother of James and John asked Jesus for special consideration for her sons. When the other disciples heard of the mother of James and John asking Jesus for special consideration for her …
As part of His message in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus encourages His disciples to understand the relationship between them and God the Father as an intimate, familial one. He begins the passage by saying in Matthew 7:7: "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." The translators of The Amplified Bible correctly understand the intent of Christ's comments in Matthew 7:7. Like a son beseeching his father, we are to be persistent, to keep on: "Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking [r
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