I want to welcome and thank all of you for reading and participating in my endeavor to present, promote, encourage and defend lifelong, sincere practice of the Christian faith in all of our daily activities and decisions. My desire is to strongly encourage true discipleship to Jesus Christ, placing Him first and foremost in everything we do. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a disciple is one who “embraces and assists in spreading the teachings of another.” However, a true disciple does more than this. He or she acts on and lives the teachings they claim to embrace.
Unfortunately, my observations and experiences suggest that many people fail in the call to be true, faithful, steadfast and obedient disciples of the Lord. It is not enough to call oneself a Christian but fail to live out the wishes (commands and teachings) of Christ, who is God and both deserves and is entitled to our all consuming and steadfast love in direct response to who He is and all that He has done for us. I hope to promote and encourage that response in several ways. First by presenting the Christian faith in a conversational manner that encourages dialogue. Second, I want to draw, from everyday life and the media, examples of both true discipleship and its lack thereof. Although my orientation is Roman Catholic, there is far more that all Christians share than there are things that separate us. Thus, there is much to be gained by all, regardless of our individual orientations. Indeed, it is my hope that non-Christians as well will benefit from this conversation.
My aim is to present and support the Truth of Faith. Most of what I will write is firmly rooted in Holy Scripture. Yet, where I believe it necessary, I will include explanations from the Catholic perspective. In doing so, my intent is not to create confrontations. Rather, I believe that the more we know and understand another’s beliefs and attitudes, the more we can find common ground and points of intersection and agreement. Therefore, to foster dialogue and sharing between us all, except for the introductory posts (such as this one) on this blog, comments are both welcome and encouraged. However, it is absolutely necessary, before you begin commenting, that you read the Policy post. That post describes my “no tolerance” attitude toward what I deem to be un-Christian behavior.
There is an order to my posts as I follow both major and minor topics and trains of thought. However, the current host for my blog (Google's blogspot.com) displays posts always with the newest ones first (in the reverse order of when they were first written). The only (dissatisfactory) option I have is to reverse the order in which the posts are listed in the Blog Archive on the sidebar to the right. Although this will list my posts in the proper order, they still will not be displayed in that order (this is a shortcoming that Google needs to correct). The only way you'll be able to read the posts in the order intended is by clicking on each post individually. I regret and apologize for this inconvenience.
I want to encourage you to include in your comments a sharing of your own faith experiences and any suggestions or ideas you may have for improving this blog for everyone’s benefit. Thank you again for joining us.
Unfortunately, my observations and experiences suggest that many people fail in the call to be true, faithful, steadfast and obedient disciples of the Lord. It is not enough to call oneself a Christian but fail to live out the wishes (commands and teachings) of Christ, who is God and both deserves and is entitled to our all consuming and steadfast love in direct response to who He is and all that He has done for us. I hope to promote and encourage that response in several ways. First by presenting the Christian faith in a conversational manner that encourages dialogue. Second, I want to draw, from everyday life and the media, examples of both true discipleship and its lack thereof. Although my orientation is Roman Catholic, there is far more that all Christians share than there are things that separate us. Thus, there is much to be gained by all, regardless of our individual orientations. Indeed, it is my hope that non-Christians as well will benefit from this conversation.
My aim is to present and support the Truth of Faith. Most of what I will write is firmly rooted in Holy Scripture. Yet, where I believe it necessary, I will include explanations from the Catholic perspective. In doing so, my intent is not to create confrontations. Rather, I believe that the more we know and understand another’s beliefs and attitudes, the more we can find common ground and points of intersection and agreement. Therefore, to foster dialogue and sharing between us all, except for the introductory posts (such as this one) on this blog, comments are both welcome and encouraged. However, it is absolutely necessary, before you begin commenting, that you read the Policy post. That post describes my “no tolerance” attitude toward what I deem to be un-Christian behavior.
There is an order to my posts as I follow both major and minor topics and trains of thought. However, the current host for my blog (Google's blogspot.com) displays posts always with the newest ones first (in the reverse order of when they were first written). The only (dissatisfactory) option I have is to reverse the order in which the posts are listed in the Blog Archive on the sidebar to the right. Although this will list my posts in the proper order, they still will not be displayed in that order (this is a shortcoming that Google needs to correct). The only way you'll be able to read the posts in the order intended is by clicking on each post individually. I regret and apologize for this inconvenience.
I want to encourage you to include in your comments a sharing of your own faith experiences and any suggestions or ideas you may have for improving this blog for everyone’s benefit. Thank you again for joining us.
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