Seeing Christ in Others Through Shared Faith
Sister Mary Maher notes a Jewish woman embracing Christianity and recalls a stranger’s compliment that likened her to Mary, reflecting on how people of faith speak of compassion. The author describes a painful group discussion and critiques modern hospitality toward others seeking shelter.
New Year Reflections on Resolutions and Christian Life
A reflective piece explores New Year resolutions and willpower, urging reliance on Jesus through prayer and sacraments. It contrasts snowman fragility with faith, then shifts to a contemplative essay about Mary, Christian life, and the challenge of depicting faith in tangible terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Peter
Snowman
Wittgenstein
Hallmark
Mary
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Kingdom Focus Shapes Jesus Followers Into His Servant Community
Teaching centers on God’s inrushing sovereignty, the Kingdom, and Jesus forming a discipleship core. Faith binds followers to Him, enabling Abba fellowship and God powered mercy. Disciples face sacrifice, separation from the world, and a mission to win others to Christ, forming the Servant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Uem
the Lord
Man
Building the Church: Jesus and Apostolic Unity
The text traces Jesus forming a Church through Peter’s confession in Matthew 16 15ff and asserts the Church as the organ of God’s sovereignty. It emphasizes the risen Christ alive in believers and Saul of Tarsus as the one who articulates the union between Son of God and followers, culminating in the Eucharist as one Body in agape love.
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Jesus
Peter
Messiah
Simon
Bar Jonah
Jesus the Messiah
Saul of
Tarsus
Church
Paul
Apostle
God
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