Here’s my guest appearance on EWTN’s Journey Home Program. What fun!
You can also download the audio-only MP3 file here, or listen below:
EWTN’s Journey Home
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‘A Two-Second Friendship’
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Can you have a sincere and meaningful friendship that only lasts two seconds? I believe so. And I believe I had one this past Friday.
My wife and I arrived at the emergency room at about 8am. For the first time, it was actually my wife in distress
and not me. The symptoms led us to believe that Lucy was passing a kidney stone: sharp, severe, lower-back pain that had eventually expanded around to the lower belly.
Lucy underwent some tests, and she was given fluids and pain medication. As anyone who has suffered through a kidney stone will tell you, the pain is incredible.
The first dose of morphine didn’t even make a dent, so they went to a higher strength medication. Continue reading
Ephesians – Chapter 1
Ephesians Chapter 1 holds some great insight into our relationship with God, and our relationship with others. Recorded July 23, 2015
‘If God Already Knows Everything, Why Pray?’
It’s a fair and reasonable question. Time and time again, we’re told that God knows, well…everything.
He knows when each sparrow will fall (Luke 12:6), he knows our thoughts (Psalm 139:2), he knows our sins (Psalm 69:5), and he’s numbered all the hairs on our heads (Matt 10:30).
Yet we’re still told to pray ‘unceasingly’ (1 Thess 5:17). We’re told to beg forgiveness for our sins (prayers of contrition), to ask for things (prayers of petition), and – most amazing of all – to just sit and talk with God (prayers of ‘relationship’).
But why pray when we’re told that he already knows our sins, our desires, and our inner-most thoughts? Doesn’t his qualities of being infinitely merciful, giving, and loving already take care of things for us? Continue reading