it has been a busy few weeks … maybe months …
winding down Lent, running through Holy Week and ramping up the Easter season.
The parish has been busy, work keeps going and home is always exciting.
When the life schedule gets all jumbled, I find myself retreating into some prayer time and podcasts …. one inspiring podcast was a ‘Pints with Aquinas’ that feature Matt Fradd speaking with Ralph Martin.
This prompted the purchase of two of his books, “A Church in Crisis” & ‘The Fulfillment of all Desire”.
Currently I am working my way through, ” A Church in Crisis”, at the point where the author points out the two biggest lies of the devil, the deception that made their way into the church.
– the assumption that almost everyone will be saved because God is so merciful.
– the assumption that sexual sins that were once considered gravely sinful are no longer so in light of “new knowledge” about sexuality.
The author then points to the idea that if hell is real and many people go there, and if our decisions in the area of sexuality indeed have eternal consequences, then we had better start taking it seriously ourselves and telling people that.
This has to make us think ….
The Deacon Guy 