Pastor Trevor said today that God isn't--and, I'm paraphrasing again--disappointed when we have desires. He knows that we are week. Rather, when we fail, He entices us back to Him. Trying to be self reliant and not rely on God is folly. That cycle of trying to beat sin by shear will, failing, and blaming ourselves rather than asking God to deliver us must die at the foot of the cross. We have to look at the one who saves us as the Israelites looked at the bronze snake on the pole.
Sunday, March 15, 2026
Blessed are those who believe not having seen?
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel said that he knew Jesus. And that. you have to know Jesus. Many people believe in Jesus. But, belief in Him leads to knowing Him. This is a hard teaching. I've always been a those who believe not having seen kind of Christian. Never having had a road to Damascus experience or a supernatural event in my faith journey, what does this mean? I know that I love Jesus; I can feel it when it thing on Him, when I'm in the presence of God, and when I contemplate the greatest act of love. Maybe I need to follow St. Teresa of Avila's example and spend more time in the prayer of silence. Maybe I need to spend more time in contemplative prayer. Maybe I need to seek to be in the presence of Jesus more.
Just as 1 Peter tells us to always be ready to give an answer for our belief
Islamic apologists love Colossians 1:14 because it seems to say that Jesus is part of creation, the first thing created. However, they ignore the son of God part, or claim that we are all sons of God. Okay, a couple of things, first of all we have the next verse. In the very next verse it says that Jesus created *all* things. He was not a part of creation until He entered it later. Second, what does it mean to be firstborn? King David was called firstborn in Psalm 89, but he was not the oldest of his brothers. Rather, firstborn is a favoured position. Also, a little further along in Colossians it actually says firstborn among the dead; Jesus was the first to rise from death.
Son of Man does not mean that Jesus is not Divin, not the Son of God, not divine
The Gospel reading today was the healing of the blind man. Jesus says to the man that the man is speaking with the Son of Man. The--former--blind man, as a Jew, understands what this means. He gets it. Go and read the 7th chapter of Daniel. It does not mean what you think it means.
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Soft Communism
Fr. Ripperger used a term that I don't think I've heard before, Soft Communism. He called modern society Soft Communism, in it's socialist policies and restrictions of civil liberties. I think I find the term fitting.
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