Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: God is patient, merciful and loving in judging us. It is not about God making a one time determination of whether we are good or bad. It's a process of God walking with us, guiding us, leading us to grow into the wheat we are meant to be. Although there are weeds in our lives, both within us and externally, we have to live past the evil with the help of Jesus to bring about the Kingdom of God. In the midst of evil, if we depend on Jesus and bring Christ into our situations, we are in fact bringing the Kingdom on Earth.
The 1 Christian 1 Topic podcast highlights the many Christian voices and their work in these one-on-one interviews. We cover one topic with one guest spanning various people and topics like music, art, writing and more.
"we can all have different perspectives but it's all, it's all still saying 'yes' to God, right, like, we can have vastly different interpretations but we aren't saying 'no' to God."
"The arc of my book, as I crafted it is to show that we are all blessed, broken, and shared"
"And so I think the thing that I discovered very, very quickly was that you have to be present to people and to kind of see what they need"
God's Word in the scripture verses is powerful. Every verse can hold significant truth if we allow ourselves to meditate on them. Sometimes all it takes is one scripture verse to impact us and feed our mind and soul. Meditate on any of the following posts and grow deeper in your faith and understanding.
A conversation on Isaiah 55:6-9 and Matthew 20:1-16
"The point of all the gospels is Jesus telling us something about God so rather than saying 'I get it, those guys that were hired at dawn,' instead I make myself say 'okay, but what is Jesus letting us know about God now in this?'"
A conversation on 1 Kings 19:9, 11-13 and Matthew 14:22-33
"Whatever our great fear is, God is greater. Whatever we can imagine and try to limit God to be, God is greater. God exists beyond that and that can be terrifying to know how limited our minds and thoughts can be and how grand God is."
A conversation on 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12 and Matthew 13:44-52
"To receive divine wisdom we have to acknowledge our limitations, suppress our ego and be open to receive God. No matter our knowledge or possessions we cannot compare to God."