Flashes

  • Reflections 14 – 20 October

    What if the very doors meant to lead us to God have been quietly locked—not by unbelief, but by the weight of rules we mistook for faith? Mercy waits on the other side.

    Reflections 14 – 20 October
  • Reflections 7 – 13 October

    True devotion isn’t measured by how close we stand to holy things, but by whether we let the Word take flesh in ordinary decisions, relationships, and the quiet clutter of daily life.

    Reflections 7 – 13 October
  • Reflections 30 September – 6 October

    What if the very doors meant to lead us to God have been quietly locked—not by unbelief, but by the weight of rules we mistook for faith? Mercy waits on the other side.

    Reflections 30 September – 6 October
  • Reflections 23 – 29 September

    What if the emptiness we fear most — no bag, no plan, no place to rest our head — is exactly the shape faith takes when it finally stops looking back?

    Reflections 23 – 29 September
  • Reflections 16 – 22 September

    When crowds blocked his own mother and brothers from reaching him, Jesus quietly redrew the boundaries of family around anyone who hears the word and does it — there’s plenty of room.

    Reflections 16 – 22 September
  • Reflections 9 – 15 September

    We are remarkably skilled at diagnosing other people’s flaws while ignoring our own. Jesus turns the mirror around, insisting that real compassion has to start with an honest look at ourselves first.

    Reflections 9 – 15 September
  • Reflections 2 – 8 September

    When exhaustion meets deep mystery, divine grace quietly reclaims our broken patterns. From empty nets and messy family lines to silent solitude and radical mercy, discover a faith that meets us in our real, unfiltered lives.

    Reflections 2 – 8 September
  • Reflections 26 August-1 September

    Love can sound like temptation when it asks for a triumph without cost, a god who avoids the cross — and the strangest arithmetic in the Gospel insists we lose our life to find it.

    Reflections 26 August-1 September
  • Reflections 19-25 August

    Those who load heavy burdens onto others while lifting nothing themselves reveal a temptation as old as sacred authority itself, and the correction offered is startling: greatness measured only by willingness to serve.

    Reflections 19-25 August
  • Reflections 12-18 August

    A camel cannot pass through a needle’s eye by trying harder, and a young man cannot release his grip through willpower alone. Some things are only ever received, never achieved.

    Reflections 12-18 August

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