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Weekly reflections for November 30, 2024

Dec 1

November 2024

Salvation: Not really a single act of faith

Salvation involves continuing cooperation with God's plan & sharing the good news

Nov 30

Believe and heed the commandments

“Confessing with the mouth” and “believing in the heart” cannot be separated

Nov 30

Catholics popular again, for how long?

Anti-religious secular element has not been defeated

Nov 24 •

John Francis Pearring

The 'breath of life from God entered them'

“Sing a new song to the Lord; and with a ten stringed lyre to chant his praise"

Nov 23

The Journey of Faith

Persistence, Prayer, and the Kingdom

Nov 16

God loves the cranky, preening, & annoyed

By pitting them against the downtrodden, repentant, and starved

Nov 16 •

John Francis Pearring

You are God’s building

“What sign can you show us for doing this?”

Nov 9 •

Norman Joseph McGraw

Practice smiling for the next life

Stop staring into the chasm of negativity

Nov 9 •

John Francis Pearring

Jesus, crushed for our sins and hung back onto a tree

Jesus' passion and death on a tree is the reverse of the story in Genesis

Nov 2 •

God is relentless

'Everything that the Father gives me will come to me'

Nov 2 •

John Francis Pearring

October 2024

Who is the fig tree gardener?

Another Way of Looking at the Barren Fig Tree Parable

Oct 26

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