![Book Talk Tuesday, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part 4, Chapter 10](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/06/desales-470x140.jpg)
CHAPTER X. How to strengthen the Heart against Temptation. EXAMINE from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained…
![oyster pearl](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/11/441319206_0ea3e3f1b7-e1376775999869-463x140.jpg)
The Warning It started with a dream an hour before my alarm went off. I was in a house, my house, and there was an…
![wrestle not against flesh and blood](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/10/moses_st_denis-sm-421x140.jpeg)
This verse has been floating around my head for the last week now. “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities…
![Archbishop Chaput](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/philadelphia-s-new-archbishop-charles-chaput-470x140.jpg)
I believe God is raising up a new, holy generation of Bishops and Priests in our Church, and it is encouraging to see the signs!…
![I Don't like the Litany of Humility](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/humility-470x140.jpg)
O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me. I don’t like this Litany. It just seems wrong to my humanity at times From the…
![Video Podcast: Spiritual Warfare](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/07/Screen-Shot-2012-07-26-at-9.35.47-PM-470x140.png)
This Vlog was actually shot more than 6 weeks ago. We have had so many hurdles to getting this posted, from an uncharacteristic sort of…
![Please, sir, can I have more?](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/100002-470x140.jpg)
Sometimes when I talk to protestants, I feel like Oliver Twist sticking out his bowl and asking, “Please, sir, can I have more?” I’m hungry!…
![salvation through the crucifixion](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/sacred-hearts-crucifixion-470x140.jpg)
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.
![Why have Faith?](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/08/yes-i-am-at-church-amen-470x140.jpg)
As I look around me, I see people of varying levels and degrees of faith. I know very few, if any, atheists. But I see…
![Thank You Wife](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/07/saved-by-grace2-e1342795552651-470x140.jpg)
My wife has spoken two prophetic words in my life that relate to commissioning, to one and the same call. The first was given years…