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Today, the Spirit calls us to glow brighter, to show greater love through concrete, corporeal actions. The Lord wants to heal our wounded hearts, to be our rearguard. The remedy, as always, is to live more like Jesus.

This week the Spirit is challenging us to consider whether we are part of the remnant at the core of the restoration or if we are standing in its way.

When the “great light,” Jesus the Messiah, came to restore Israel, he began the restoration right where it all first fell apart. When you look back over your life and notice the moments of spiritual unfaithfulness that we all have, where does it all start to fall apart for you? Perhaps that is just the place where the Lord wants to begin restoring you.

The Spirit invites us to be servants of the Lord “through whom I show my glory.”

The Lord’s message through Isaiah has clear echoes in the baptism and ministry of Jesus recorded in the Gospels.

This week, the Spirit invites us, through the voice of Isaiah, to let the glory of the Lord shine upon us and shine through us. You do not have to leave this nation to be a light to the nations.

Honor for parents is so important to the Lord that he attaches some remarkable blessings to it. In addition to atoning for sins it also results in a fruitful prayer life and makes for a happy family life.

The Word of God is living and active (see Hebrews 4:12), and God has a track record of saying something new with the same old words.

On this Gaudete Sunday, the Lord has more joy planned for you than you realize!

With Jesus’ advent in Bethlehem, the shoot finally sprouted from the stump of Jesse

There will come a day when people will stream to Jerusalem, not the physical city but the spiritual Jerusalem, the Church. Instruction shall go forth from this New Jerusalem, as when the Apostles began carrying the good news to Jerusalem and Judea, to Samaria, and to the ends of the earth, and as when the Church teaches authoritatively today on faith and morals.

In so many ways, King David points ahead to his most famous descendant to be authoritatively declared the King of the Jews: Jesus of Nazareth.

In these waning days of the liturgical year, as the lectionary readings have an increasingly pronounced focus on the end times, the Lord invites us once again to ponder the reality of our individual judgement at death and the final judgement at the end of time

The Prophet Ezekial saw a vision of the New Temple, and Jesus made this vision a reality.

Death is not the end; it is not a farewell. For the righteous, it is the gateway to eternal life with the Lord.

The Lord is close to the lowly. He hears their cries. He wants to answer their prayers without delay, through you and me.

Christian friends who can hold us up and remind us of the Lord’s mighty deeds in our life.

Namaan experienced physical and spiritual healing by doing the simple thing commanded of him by the Lord.

Throughout life's difficulties, the Lord is faithful, and so we must be faithful as well.

The Spirit is calling to our attention that we must not be complacent in the face of evil, of the mistreatment of our fellow man who is created in the image of God and for whom God became man and died on a cross to redeem.