NEWS

13 Dec

“What did you go out into the desert to see? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

John the Baptist challenged people to identify and acknowledge the error and evil in their lives. He baptized them with water as a sign of their decision to...

05 Dec

“He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in his hand.”

To properly prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus in a cave in the hills of Bethlehem more than two thousand years ago it is helpful to recall our Baptism. ...

29 Nov

“So too, you also must be prepared, for at the hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.”

Women do not carry large purses with at least one every item they or their children may possibly need because they like carrying heavy objects or exercising...

21 Nov

“Amen, I say to you. This day you will be with me in paradise.”

We should all long to hear Jesus speak those words to us. And, if we are good stewards and caretakers of all of the gifts God has given to us (all that...

14 Nov

“All that you see here – the days will come when there will not be left one stone up another. ”

Jesus grew up in the small village of Nazareth on top of a craggy mountain in the northern part of Israel. Like the vast majority of the people of his day he...

08 Nov

“He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”

The best teachers provide information and teach us to ask the right questions. Facts should lead to the questions, “Who, what, why, when, how and why...

01 Nov

“He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner.”

Are there any like Zacchaeus among us? Can any of us say “I shall give HALF of my possessions to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone I will repay them...

25 Oct

“O God, be merciful to me, a sinner”

Jesus tells of a Pharisee and a tax collector in the temple to pray. Actually, the Pharisee went to the temple to brag: “O God, I thank you I am not like...

18 Oct

“There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being.”

Sadly that describes many people in power in the time of Jesus and in our own time. But Jesus describes a woman whose persistence moves the self centered judge...

08 Oct

“Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?”

Would we have been the one who returned to thank Jesus? Or would we have been one of the nine? Gratitude begins with the awareness that someone has done...

26 Sep

“Abraham told the rich man, ‘My child, remember you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad.’”

Jesus paints a depressing picture of Lazarus, a poor man covered with sores laying at the door of a rich man who obviously ignored the poor man just outside of...

21 Sep

Bart Schuchts is the founder of Church on Fire and has been associated with the John Paul II Healing Center since its inception. Bart has been in ministry...

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