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Coffee, Conversations & Christ
Christ clearly presents himself as the Son of God. Therefore, he is one of three things: a liar, a lunatic, or the Lord himself. There is no in-between.
Hope is that which counteracts despair. We, like the leper, run from despair and hope in the grace of God.
John is the greatest of the prophets before Christ. We, however, have been given a knowledge greater than his. Thus, we are called to be prophets too. We are called to be prophets of the second coming.
God is the perfect father, teaching us to drive towards what is good. He keeps us safe from harm, and gives us the courage to keep moving forward.
Life is a search for what fills the emptiness of man. We run after hollow meaning. When will we realize that happiness resides "In Him Alone"
Anyone can be nice, but not everyone can be holy. We are called to be the latter by settling not for the world's morality, but for something much greater.
The training wheels are off as God's law shifts from one focused on punishment to one based on love. While less scary, a deeper look shows how it is much more strict, but is exactly what we need.
God calls us to be fruitful, but it does not end here. We are not just called to bear fruit, but to bear the sweetest fruit, the fruit that is worthy of God.
Jesus's heart is pierced both by the pain of crucifixion and his love for us. We pray that we may be pierced by love as well.
Jesus Christ is the center of revelation, the human embodiment of God's love. He teaches us to love, which brings greater demands than the Mosaic Law. We are under grace, and under the law of love.
Marcion believed that there are two Gods, an evil God of the Old testament and a good God of the New. There are no Marcionists today, but so many people wish to disconnect the God of justice from the God of mercy, running away from His eternal law.
We are taught to keep religion hidden; to keep it a private matter, lest we be "cancelled." But Christ calls us to be the light of the world, and the call to prevent talking about religion is, in itself, an imposition of belief. We are made to illuminate the world, and we cannot be stopped.
Today's society follows Nietzche in his attempt to be superman, but the Beatitudes tell us to do otherwise. We are taught not to be the superman we want to be, nor the superman that we world wants us to be, but the superman God made us to be.
The Eucharist is the "Source and Summit." But what does it mean? It is the source, because all that we have and all that we are come from it. It is the summit, because all that we have and all that we are must go to it if we wish to see God in the eternal face-to-face.
Pride is like salt; it's in everything. Today we talk about acting with impure intentions, and how to let go of our selfishness.