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Our readings both point to the goods of this life that God gives us to enjoy in moderation and the our ultimate good which is to identify with Jesus’ ultimate good of the cross and so enjoy union with him in his ultimate victory. The disciples and much of the modern church can only see the temporal goods and so failed at Christ’s passion, but we have been warned and can keep our ultimate good in mind and so embrace our suffering by identifying it with Christ knowing that we will ultimately share his resurrection.

We live in a world that has tons of information, but very little knowledge. Knowledge is not just an accumulation of scattered facts. Knowledge is understanding how to reach stable, firm conclusions about the facts and information we have. I want you to know how much I have agonized for you and for the…

The summer I turned 12, I made a life-altering decision. I decided to enter public school. I had gone to a Christian school since the first grade. I had just finished 6th grade. But that summer, 1992, I decided to enter public school for my seventh grade year. Now my friend Josh had always gone to public…

Preparing for Purpose The Temptation of Jesus 4 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves…