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CHAPTER XVI. How to possess a rich Spirit amid real Poverty. BUT if you are really poor, my daughter, for God’s Sake be so in…
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CHAPTER VI. Humility makes us rejoice in our own Abjection. BUT, my daughter, I am going a step further, and I bid you everywhere and…
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The greatest evidence for the Christian faith is the founder. In fact, if it were not true it would be beyond belief. Mystics of the…
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Has there ever been a time with greater access to truth? We have the knowledge of the whole world–the vastness of space, the infinitesimal perfection…
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The dearth of catechesis in the previous few decades has caused no little amount of consternation in the present day. And rightly so. An uncatechized…
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In the midst of an affliction of turmoil, I took an impromptu web fast. I think it was just the thing, to set down the…
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1 He comes to us in our brokenness as pottery 2 Maybe we’re broken into a few dozen pieces, or perhaps just cracked down the…
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After the fever of life – after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding – after all the…
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God’s will, my boundaries, pure selflessness. We may think, “Lord, yes! I love you. Any thing for you Lord.” I had a dream many years…
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It’s been over twenty years since I gave my life to Christ. I’ve told many stories about my travels toward the Kingdom. But this story…