St. Paul exhorts us to choose to rejoice, pray and give thanks no matter how we feel.

Bottom line, God desires our holiness. The devil works day and night to obscure its beauty.

The Holy Spirit is the change agent of the Christian life. Yielding to the Spirit’s grace at work within us is the key to real change and a new life.

We were made for glory, but we seek it in the wrong places.

Jesus answers the question, how should we then live?

The apostles and their followers rejoiced in the suffering they endured for the Gospel.

To be Christian means to live in a posture of readiness, to be awake and alert, ready for the Lord’s return.

The preached word calls for a response, beginning with repentance, and turning away from sin and turning to God. It is a radical new direction.

The common experience of the early Church included persecution and great joy in the Holy Spirit.

The recent Pope’s remind us, in imitation of Jesus and the apostles, that the Church is born of preaching.