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Sacramental Living — 159 episodes
The Strange Gift: When Rock Bottom Becomes a New Beginning
Let us Be Attentive…So Why Aren’t We?
Does Artificial Intelligence Have a Silicon Soul?
From Consumption to Communion: Choosing Spiritual Sickness or Spiritual Health
When Anxiety Lies: Overcoming Existential Crisis
Life, Death, and Beauty in Our Last Breath: A Testimony
Facing Uncomfortable Truths
Pragmatism That Kills
Blessings in Brokenness
Lessons From the ‘Corporate World’
Living the Abundant Life
Ego and Our Propensity to Choose Delusion
The Prison of Esteem
Defeating the True Enemy
Alone but not Alone
Living as Pilgrims in a Restless World
Confusing Our Goodness with God’s Goodness
Serving the Angel of Contentment or the Demon of Desire
Haunted by Religion
God in a Disfigured Face
The Difficult Journey from the Head to the Heart
The Twin Evils of Infidelity and Individualism
Growth and Struggle in Liminal Space – Lessons from St. Mary of Egypt
A Dangerous Time of Year
The Real Energy Crisis
Tragedy, Clarity, and Reconciling Suffering
Two Thieves, Two Ways, Two Choices
Repentance is Our North Star
Hypocrisy and the Mask of Death
Beauty and Theodicy
Well-Being or Non-Being - It's Our Choice
Heat Without Light
Living Intentionally to Live Life Hopefully
Clothed in Christ
Strangers in a Strange Land
Tears
Our Bodies and the Sin of Self-Neglect
How Much We Loved Not How Much We Sinned
Dealing with Difficulties and Setbacks
Mutual Accountability and the Awesome Judgment Seat of Christ
Consumed Through Consuming
Hospitality and Our Salvation
Remembering the Future to Reframe Our Past
Unknowing Ourselves
Light Shines Out of Darkness
Breaking Down to Break Through
Freedom Through Restraint
Civil and Uncivil War
The Success of Failure
Overcoming Spiritual Disabilities
I Wish I Hadn't Done That But Thank God I Did
Healing the Soul through Self-Forgiveness
Faith, Trauma, and Trust
The Myth of Human Freedom
Beware of Our Own Opinions
Tearing Down Authority at Our Own Peril
Why We Need Separation Before Unity
Consenting to the Devil
Do We Get What We Deserve?
Saving Ourselves and Others Through Patience
Episode 100 – Dealing with Our Inner Darkness
Battling Our Little gods
The Only True Religion or the Completely True Religion
Why God's Wrath is also God's Love
Eros, Agape, and Ordering our Disordered Desires Through Suffering
Darn those Darnels: Acquiring Discernment in this Age of Deception
Trying to Keep God in Box
Sacramental “Enchantment”
Trampling Down Death by Death
The Power of Powerlessness
The “Awful Problem” of Existence
The Failure of the First Fast
Great Lent – The Sacred and the Secular
Conspiracy Theories Unmasked
Why Cancel Culture Needs to Be Canceled
“Your Faith Has Made You Well” – Or Has It?
Tried, Tested and Tempted
Why Christians Must Acquire the Soul of a Poet
It is More Blessed to Give Than to Receive Except for Suffering
Our Thoughts (and Actions) Determine Our Lives
The Liturgy of Human Need
Not Losing Heart in These Troubling Times
Self-Denial or Self-Desire
I Don't Feel God
Do We Want to be Well?
Imposter Syndrome and the Enemy Within
God, COVID-19, and PTSD
Mary the Mother of God and the Value and Restoration of Women
Praying in the Name of the Lord
The Office of the Child: Hope in Christ as the Eternal Son of God
Panic, Fragility, and the Plight of the Immanent Man
Fear and Control
Capturing our Minds in a World of False Images
Being a Life Giver in a Culture of Death
Freeing Ourselves from Bondage
Hope When Feeling Hopeless
Suffering and Unconditional Love of Others
The Action of Contemplation
Threads of Life and Tangled Webs: How to Make Sense of Our Lives and See the Beauty Amidst the Chaos
Wrestling with God: Struggles, Wounds, and Transformation
Truth or Lies - There is No Compromise
Sacramentality in the Lord of the Rings
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Holiness
Thoughts on “Thoughts and Prayers”
Suffering When Loved Ones Suffer
God is in Control…Really?
A Tale of Two Icons: Reflections on Hope, Healing, and Miracles
Addiction, Possession, and the Opioid Crisis
Thoughts on Suicide and What We Can Do
What Do You Want – Fair or Me? Choosing God Amidst the Unfairness of Illness and Affliction
Falling into the Hands of Mercy
The Blessing of Brokenness
Mystical Experience or Awe and Wonder
The Lie Whisperer: Overcoming the Enemy in Your Head
How Harry Healed My Inner Frodo: Reflections on the Mystery of Love, Sacrifice, and Choice
Confession, Adulation, and Social Media
Losing to Gain
God and the Second Law of Thermodynamics - Thoughts on the Holiness of Order
The Complex World of Parenting
Lent, Fasting, and God's Presence
Grace and the Guiding Hand of Providence in Our Lives
I'm Spiritual But Not Religious
What Do You Mean Santa Isn't Real?
Prayerfulness and Mindfulness
The Divided States of America: A Spiritual Reflection on Wholeness and Division
Guilt and Self-Judgment
Sacramental Reality - Explaining Sin, Sickness and Spiritual Growth
Teaching the Cross to Our Children and Grandchildren
Uncreated Light: Experiencing the Transcendent
Disenchanted with Morality
Prophet or Profit: The Struggle to Keep Our Church Priorities in Order
Comfort, Complacency and Spiritual Death
Sticks and Stones
It's Not Your Fault or Is It?
Racism and the Tragedy of How We Deal with Differences
When Good is Good Enough
The Spirituality of Eating and Hunger
Regrets of the Dying
It's All About Christ
Hope Within Evil
People, Politics and Persons
The Force, The Holy Spirit and Star Wars
God and Science
Renters or Owners? God, Us and the Environment
Intelligence or Wisdom?
Judging Our Circumstances Prematurely
Christ and Sexual Sin
Holy Inspiration and Creativity
What Is Life?
A Perspective on Death
A “Sign” of the Times
God Is Not A Tame Lion
Myth and Truth
Condemn or Condone
God is Personal
Doubt and Faith
Marriage: Sacrament or Contract
Chrismation, Vocation, and Ordination
Introduction to Sacramental Living