Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. Psalm 42:11 Surely there is a future, and your hope will [...]
Christian life is not sustained only by private acts of prayer, justice and virtue. It is sustained in community by gathering ritually around the Word of God and through the breaking of the [...]
To pray, I think, does not mean to think about God in contrast to thinking about other things or to spend time with God instead of spending time with other people. Rather, it means to think and [...]
“If you have ever felt yourself aging and losing both the health and tautness of a young body and the opportunities that come with that and been powerless to turn back the clock. If you have ever [...]
“What Jesus wants from us is not admiration but imitation.“ Ronald Rolheiser In my article for the last Messenger, I mentioned the book “The Holy [...]
“A shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him…” –Isaiah 11:1-2 In [...]
In his book Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church, author Philip Yancey shared the stories of those who helped shape his thought and faith. His chapter [...]
“Life is not the way it’s supposed to be, it’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” —Virginia Satir I had only been in the Czech Republic for a couple of [...]
A friend recently introduced me to the work of John C. Maxwell who is a motivational speaker and pastor. He is a modern leadership guru who has written several books and gives presentations on [...]
