Day 1 of the Lenten Season 2012 Today is Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday derives its name from the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of adherents as a sign of mourning and repentance to God. The ashes used are gathered after the palms from the previous year’s Palm Sunday are burned on the day …
v.1-2 Hospitality. Hospitality was as duty which Christians were expected to accept gladly wand without grudging but it obviously lent itself to abuse. Those in the church are members of one another and who are taught to bear one another’s burdens. Hospitality grows out of an awareness of the necessitates of others, it enriches the …
Chapter 15 – The Maturity of Faith. The measure of strength and Christian maturity is our ability to subordinate our own desires and our own preferences to the actual necessitates of those who are weaker than we are. When by default we would follow our natural impulses to prompt us to do as we please. …
Questions of Faith I: What rewards await me in Heaven; isn’t getting to Heaven reward enough? What is the difference between Protestants and Catholics?