Merry Christmas! The next eight days constitute the Octave of Christmas and I will be taking that time to be with family and friends and plan for the next year. It has been quite a year, one with much growth. I expect next year will be very exciting, especially with the publication of my first […]
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And in that region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear. And the angel said to them, “Be not afraid; for behold, I bring
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Let us look at a very small and subtle way that the devil subverts our relationships with others: the daily “pinpricks.” [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] The devil is an expert at turning small, ordinary occurrences in a relationship into overblown catastrophes that often lead to the divorce of a couple who appeared to have a perfectly normal
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Another tactic of the devil is to focus on the witness of sinners in the Church in order to create disappointment in the hearts of Christians and non-Christians alike. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery (Guercino, 1621)[/featured-image] While the fact that we are all sinners can be something appealing, especially to someone who
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As we continue to delve deeper into our series on the Armor of God as featured in Saint Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, this week we start to examine the specific pieces of armor that St. Paul references and compare it to a Roman centurion’s armor. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] Photo by Matthias Kabel (Wikipedia)[/featured-image] While we will see
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This week in our series investigating the many tactics of the devil, we examine the loss of reason in our society and how the Enemy loves to use this to his advantage. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”] The loss of reason has become the devil’s playground in modern culture. Ages ago people used to debate about topics and when
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Continuing our series on the Armor of God featured in Saint Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, this week we take into account how the Christian community at Ephesus was honestly afraid of the dark spiritual powers around them. The pagan cults were very active and they saw on a daily basis the power of the
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