Tag: "forgiveness"

<em>WARRIOR</em>: A Fight Film Like No Other
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WARRIOR: A Fight Film Like No Other

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WARRIOR’s story is a gripping, won’t-let-you-go study of what it means to fight for noble causes, what it means to love, forgive, and find redemption.

When Fathers Fail: Healing the Father Wound
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When Fathers Fail: Healing the Father Wound

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Have you ever heard the saying “You can’t give what you don’t have?”  It makes sense doesn’t it?  I can’t give you a dollar if I don’t have a dollar right? But in terms of affection, love and relationships it makes even more sense. If your father was not affectionate, you may have trouble showing […]

He Is Alive and Waiting For You!
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He Is Alive and Waiting For You!

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Our churches will be packed today, filled by an influx of infrequent visitors and with the lovely fragrances flowing from the multi-colored spring flowers that will surround our altars and fill our sanctuaries. How pleased Our Lord will be to see so many there. How hopeful He is that all will return. The songs we […]

How to be a Good Sinner
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How to be a Good Sinner

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Today two ideas collided.  It didn’t hurt so much, but it did shake things up.  Shaking up can be a very good thing.  I remember a quote on our fridge from youth: “Sometimes God knocks us off balance so we’ll take a step forward.” So true. Socrates, Copernicus, St. Francis, Einstein, John Paul II… all examples […]

The Sinners Will Stumble
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The Sinners Will Stumble

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Let him who is wise understand these things; let him who is prudent know them. Straight are the paths of the LORD, in them the just walk, but sinners stumble in them. (Hos 14:10) This passage from Hosea reminds me of a lesson my dad taught me when I was in my early teens. I […]

<i>The Wild Wild West</i>: My Father's Example of Forgiveness
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The Wild Wild West: My Father’s Example of Forgiveness

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My father taught me one of the most amazing lessons I’ve ever learned about forgiveness. It happened when I was a young girl, about eight years of age or so. I was at home with my mother and two sisters just doing things around the house. Suddenly, the atmosphere changed, and there was a flurry […]