Holy Words from Holy Cross

Why reform the Church?  Why reform ourselves?  Most people want to be a good person, but we fail daily to our highest aspiration.  In the cross of Christ, we find forgiveness... hope to try again wit…

Part 10 of a Bible study on the Revelation of St. John, an amillennialist interpretation.

Why must give an account to God for what we have done with our stuff?  Isn't it ours, after all?  An interesting question, and one worth exploring...

Part 9 of a Bible study on the Revelation of St. John, an amillennialist interpretation.

Why the Biblical warnings against possessions?  Can't we use things to do good?  We certainly can, but it is difficult to not become consumed with acquiring and managing our possessions.  Jesus teach…

Part 7 of a Bible study on the Revelation of St. John, an amillennialist interpretation.

The book of Revelation, chapters 13 to 15.

Of all the burdens we carry, shame can be the most incapacitating.  Christ came to free us not just from the guilt of our sin, but from its shame as well.  How?  Listen and discover...

We all have wounds; some we can see, some we cannot.  Today, Jesus exhorts us to deliberately wound ourselves--cut out part of our life--if something we hold dear is keeping us from responding to the…

Just like our cell phones, our batteries get run down. A time of retreat with the Lord may refresh us and fill us full. How do you find that refreshment and time to recharge?

Many people know a lot of Bible, but their behavior seems to indicate very little transformation by the love of God. "I might believe in the Redeemer if His followers looked more redeemed," quipped t…

People get really hyped up for sporting events... why don't we get as excited for Jesus? What would it look like if it did?

Most of the time, most people believe in God. Some of the time, some of the people believe in Jesus. All of the time, all of the people have a tendency to NOT believe the One in whom they say they be…

Walking is a metaphor used almost universally to connote the style or manner of one's life. Do most human lives truly reflect people's the deepest values, or do we live at variance with them? Could m…

Decades after the Rolling Stones recorded the song, many are still complaining that they "can't get no satisfaction." Others know THEORETICALLY that ultimate satisfaction is to be only in God, but th…

We all know that we get off track sometimes, but how does God point us in the right direction? How does He restore us so that we are not hopeless and discouraged when we do get off-base? Listen and f…

When we look for evidence of God's Spirit, we usually look for the extraordinary... but overlook the work that can only be of His authoring under our very noses. What is the evidence of the Spirit's …

What do you do when you have stolen a blessing? You have the advantage of something good, but you got it under evil pretenses. See what Jesus does when someone steals a blessing from Him.

When tragedy strikes, even unbelievers sometimes find themselves shaking their fist at heaven saying, "Where were you, God?!" In today's reading, God turns the tables on us and asks us the same quest…

We are a people on the move... and we are used to getting things right away. Instantaneous gratification is part of our way of life, and we rarely question whether faster is better. God takes a diffe…