Category: Message of the Day
“One of their own number, Nicodemus (the man who had come to Him), spoke up to say, ‘Since when does our law condemn any man without first hearing him and knowing the facts?’ ” –John 7:50-51 In John’s Gospel, Nicodemus is introduced as “a member of the Jewish Sanhedrin” who came to Jesus at night (Jn 3:1-2). Later, Nicodemus is referred to more briefly and discreetly as “the man who had come to [Jesus]” (Jn 7:50). After Jesus’ death, Nicodemus came to bury Jesus and is again referred to as “the man who had first come to Jesus at night”...
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Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!” Acts 8:20 Many people believe that money can buy them everything. While this may be true of material possessions, it cannot buy things like peace, joy and fullness of life. These qualities have no price tags. They are God’s gifts of grace to us. We enjoy everything that is good and worthwhile by the grace of God. We don’t deserve these things, we cannot earn them and we are not worthy of them, but we receive them because of Christ’s...
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“Once His brothers had gone up to the festival He too went up, but as if in secret and not for all to see.” –John 7:10 Two weeks from today will be Good Friday, and we will be in the midst of the Triduum, the three most holy days of the year. We are on the threshold of the glorious Easter season. Jesus will be going up to the festival of His Resurrection, “but as if in secret and not for all to see” (Jn 7:10). At His Resurrection, He was “completely changed in appearance” (Mk 16:12) and few recognized...
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“Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you?” 2nd Corinthians 13:5 Many people have the misconception that Christians are weak, dull, and ineffective; purposefully cutting themselves off from the rest of the world. There was nothing weak, commonplace, or ineffective about Jesus Christ. The Scriptures bear witness to His humanity and His divinity; to His firmness and tenderness; to His courage and humility; and above all, to His love – even when He was subjected to bitter hatred, barbaric torture and death. This is the example...
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“If you believed Moses you would then believe Me, for it was about Me that He wrote.” –John 5:46 We must believe in the Word of God in its fullness. For example, if we don’t believe the part of the Bible attributed to Moses, called the Pentateuch, we won’t believe Jesus and what He said through His body, the Church, in the New Testament. Jesus said: “If you believed Moses you would then believe Me, for it was about Me that he wrote. But if you do not believe what he wrote, how can you believe what I say?” (Jn...
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