“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears” said the 17th century French classical author Francois Rochefoucauld. Fear is one of our basic instincts and is our survival response. It gives the alarm when it senses danger or a potential loss that can hurt you. In a sense we were created with this emotion that is......

A young girl once confessed to her priest that she thought she was guilty of the sin of pride. She said, "When I look in the mirror, I think I am beautiful." The priest said, "That's not a sin, that's a mistake." The priest pricked her bubble of pride that was inflating. It hurts when someone pricks our pride, but I think we all need someone who ca......

One of the greatest tragedies of a fast paced life is that we go through the motions without pausing to learn lessons from what’s going on around us. We are often so occupied with things to do and projects to achieve that we do not take enough time to dwell on the changes that are going on around us and their impact on our personal lives. One......

Every Christian one day or the other grapples with the question “what does it mean to live a holy life in an unholy world?” For centuries many Christians struggled with this question and came up with different suggestions and ideas that in some sense shaped our understanding of holiness. Holiness and worldliness were always understood a......

From the beginning of human history Satan has cleverly tricked a few people in all ages with the greatest lie ever told. Generation after generation he was successful in subtly changing the wrapper of this lie and constantly deceiving people with his seductive hiss “You will be like God”. Of course we all know that eating the forbidden ......