It Doesn’t Take Much to Impress God Why did God Choose Abraham?  Why did He go to Mesopotamia and ask Abraham to travel over one thousand miles, as the crow flies, to the Promised Land when He could have chosen someone already there?  Why Abraham?  It doesn’t say. Why did Jesus go to the Sea...

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Fr. Peter Grover, OMV looks at 2 Timothy for the Second Sunday of Lent and asks: How is it that we combat bad teaching? Paul writes to Timothy and addresses this question. Check out Fr Peter’s encouragement for the start of Lent. Find this episode on Spotify or Apple Podcast or our YouTube channel.

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Cloths, Adam and Eve, and Doing What We Were Made to Do Dad and I went fishing on the coldest day of the year. I wore so many clothes that I looked like the Michelin tire man. A guy strolled, and his dog jumped into the icy cold water. When he came out, he stood...

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Fr Peter Grover dives into Joel 2:12-18 for Ash Wednesday. What does Joel want us to know about God and ourselves? Watch the video to find out, and see all of Fr Peter’s Bible Studies here.

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Love: Giving that Benefits Others At the end of the snow season in March, I walked into a Sears store. They had something I wanted, and I had something they wanted. When the salesman discovered I wanted a snow blower, he got excited.  He exclaimed, “This is a great time to get a snow blower...

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Fr Peter Grover dives into Leviticus 19 and explains why we still need to read and pay attention to Leviticus and the Torah (first fives books of the Bible) in general. Note: share this video with friends; Fr Peter promises a 5-piece series on the Pentateuch if the video gets 1,000 views on YouTube!

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It Is All About Who You Are With My youngest brother hung out with my mother when she painted landscapes. When he was around nine, my mother gave him a set of charcoals, the variety used for drawing.  He took them with a canvas and climbed up a mountain. When he came back, there was...

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Fr Peter Grover dives into Matthew 5:17-37 for the 6th Week of Ordinary Time and reveals the key to understanding Matthew’s whole Gospel, and how to do the impossible with God’s help. Listen to Fr. Peter’s introduction to the Gospel of Matthew here: www.youtu.be/ntrUN_726v8

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Be Generous and Heal Quickly I love to teach Scripture, and I work hard for my classes. I have PowerPoint presentations, share my notes with the students, give them resources to help with their research papers, and hand their graded papers returned within two hours. At the end of the year, I receive the student...

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