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You want Gospel, I’ll Show You Gospel

You want Gospel, I’ll Show You Gospel

October 18, 2016
Steven Thomas
Editor's Choice

Salvation is pure gift, and what is given to us from God?   His very self, communicating to us as much as we can handle. Bring…

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Mercy

Mercy

October 10, 2016
Steven Thomas
Editor's Choice

All I can ever receive from God is mercy.  I can only receive what He gives in mercy, and all I have left to give…

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Cost of the Kingdom

Cost of the Kingdom

March 4, 2013
Steven Thomas
Reflection

      Steven’s face shining like the sun and the religious response, ”stone him!”. Religious people took his mortal life. Elijah the Tishbite demonstrated…

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abandonment to divine love

Abandonment to Divine Love

October 3, 2012
Steven Thomas
Reflection

That single phrase if embraced in and through the cross, with Mary, in Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit, is the beginning and…

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salvation through the crucifixion

Is Salvation Just an End Game Strategy?

September 12, 2012
Bekah
Apologetics

For God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son…who made Himself a perfect sacrifice, that through the cross, our sins may be redeemed. This is the beginning and the end of the Christian life, but we were originally created to be more than we are now.

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Catholic Quote of the Day, August 23, 2012

Catholic Quote of the Day, August 23, 2012

August 23, 2012
Bekah
Catholic Quote of the Day

From today’s Saint: Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. –St. Rose of Lima

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Come

Come

August 7, 2012
Steven Thomas
Personal Experience

I have been given twelve children; the first two are sons.  I think I was bit rough around the edges in my early day for…

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Catholic Quote of the Day - August 2, 2012

Catholic Quote of the Day – August 2, 2012

August 2, 2012
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Catholic Quote of the Day, Teresa of Avila, Saint

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you. — ST. TERESA OF AVILA

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Sometimes

Sometimes

July 20, 2012
Steven Thomas
Personal Experience

Sometimes I think we are bored with what matters–Blood and nail, outpouring of light, wake up alive in God, from glory to glory. That’s it….

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Birthing of the Kingdom

Birthing of the Kingdom

July 3, 2012
Steven Thomas
Reflection

Christ meets his bride clothed in white and they become one flesh in the sacrament of the altar.  For every action, there is a reaction….

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