It is not ok to hate someone for who they are, or for the beliefs they hold. And even if someone’s actions make them your enemy, Christ’s doctrine is clear, that we are to love them.

Just as baptism is a symbolic celebration of birth and rebirth, a ritual that opens the door into the kingdom of God; so too, abortion is a ritual, not symbolic but actual, a rejection of life and a denial of birth that closes the gates of salvation. Those who reject God can no longer even see His kingdom among us.

Two-thousand years ago Caesar went to sleep not knowing his kingdom had been overthrown.

We die and take nothing with us. Our life must be more than what we possess, otherwise we live for naught.

Humans are animals, the scientists tell us. They have cut Aristotle’s definition in half, neatly cut God out of the picture, and left mankind bleeding on the floor.

What happens to our consciousness after we die is an ultimate unknown. Certainty about it is impossible whether you are an atheist or a Christian. If you take a stance on it, you stand on faith.

The very fact that you want to help the poor is proof that the Christmas spirit, and goodwill toward men, still burns in your heart, and the hearts of others as well.

A vessel that carries Christ bears many souls across troubled water.