Tag: Guarding the Heart

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  Try Them Apples On For Size – A Sermon on John 10:1-10

  May 7, 2017

  Easter 4A – John 10:1-10 “Jesus used this figure of speech with them but they did not understand what he was saying to them” (John 10:6) Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever listened to the gospel reading and then said to yourself, “What is he talking about?” Have you ever read a Read more
• Sobriety, the Guardian of the Spirit

  October 26, 2009

  Sobriety is a guardian of the spirit. It stands on guard day and night at the gates of the heart, to sort out the thoughts that present themselves, to listen to their suggestions and to observe their intrigues. In the first place, control the imagination strictly: it is the only route by which Satan can Read more