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In-vitro fertilization (IVF) dehumanizes human reproduction, by taking the act of unitive love out of it and converting it into a purely cellular process. This devalues the understanding of procreative love in marriage, thereby devaluing the meaning of marriage itself. This causes grave hurt to...

Our goal in life must be to love God, because God is love, and we are created for love. Furthermore, we can find true peace and joy only when we love God; because then we become what we are created to be. Since God is love, to love God is to have a deep desire and commitment to express His love...

Those who belong to Christ have His Spirit (Romans 8:9). His spirit is the spirit of unconditional love that is eternal, merciful and sacrificial. Because He loved us, and therefore wanted to save us from eternal death, He took a human form, and not only bore all our sufferings, that our sins...

We all have to go through pain and suffering, because we live in a world that has sin. God, however, brings us peace and joy by comforting us (Psalm 23, Is 57:18-21; Ps 94:19). He comforts us by being one with us in our pain and suffering. He does this by becoming one of us and freely accepting...

Is our love for God in mere words, or do we love God by loving those who hurt and persecute us the ways God loved those who hurt and persecuted Him (by accepting humility, pain and suffering in order to compensate for their sins)? If we love God, we will trust Him. Do we trust Him enough to...

We must be holy because God calls us to be holy and perfect, just like Him (Leviticus 19:1-2; Matthew 5: 48). The holiness of God is revealed in Jesus who sacrificed His life in order to compensate for the sins we committed against Him. In other words, He the victim compensated for the...

Force is a non-matter entity that exerts influence on its surroundings. Because it is non-matter it cannot be felt or seen. There are different types of forces in the universe. Some maintain the planets in perfect balance. Some regulate the weather patterns and seasons on earth. Some keep...

To be married is to share a common life with your spouse. In order to share this life there must be sharing of physiology, because life is physiological. Though we have different types of physiologies in our body, sharing of physiology can occur in reproductive physiology between a male and...

To sins is to go against God and our fellow human beings. To fight temptation therefore, we must trust God because when we trust Him we will feel secure; and when we feel secure we will not seek sinful ways to solve our problems. To trust God we must believe in His infinite love which propelled...

God’s love for us is unconditional. It is, therefore, eternal and limitless. Therefore, when we betrayed Him, were unfaithful to Him and sinned against Him He did not abandon us or give up on us or lessen His love for us. On the contrary, His love became even more intense; because He is a loving...

Jesus said, “The bread that I will give you is my flesh” (John 6:51); and further stated that, “unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you will not have life within you” (John 6:53). Then at the Last Supper, He made an offering of His sacrificial body and blood by the following acts. He...

God is love. Therefore, faith in God is faith in love (which is God’s Spirit). Since true love was revealed in Jesus, who sacrificed His life to free us (who were unfaithful to Him and sinned against Him) from sin; true faith is to believe in this type of love. We would, therefore, be...

We should forgive because: 1) God commands us forgive. 2) God forgave us by dying for the sins we committed against Him 3) Even sinners are God’s children and our brothers and sisters 4) God loves sinners and came into this world to save them form sin. 5) We will find true peace only when we...

Do we believe that God loved us enough to die for our sins? Do we believe that God is infinitely wise? Do we believe that God keeps His word? Can we take a chance with God and go along with every thing He has in His mind for us?

Some of the parameters are as follows: Do we keep God’s commandments? Do we forgive others as He forgives? Do we love one another as He loves us? Do we accept God’s will in all matters of our life and imitate Him by sacrificing our self interest in the process of helping those who have offended...

Some of them are as follows: Do we have resentment or hold grudge against our offenders? Do we pray for those who hurt us? Do we focus on the hurt our offenders have caused their soul (by hurting us), or do we focus on the hurt we received? Are we willing to sacrifice our own interest in the...

Some of them are as follows: Are we patient and kind? Are we boastful or conceited? Are we jealous, rude or selfish? Do we keep grudges or are resentful? Do we give others the benefit of the doubt, or do we judge and condemn them in our heart? Do we forgive our offenders unconditionally and...

God forgave us by compensating for the offenses we committed against Him (1John 2:2). He compensated for our offenses by sacrificing His life. Furthermore, by His act of forgiveness He bought us eternal life and healing to our spirit. True forgiveness, therefore, consists in compensating for the...

We are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27) and have his spirit imprinted on our heart (Ezekiel 36:27). Therefore, we will find peace only when our spirit resonates in unison with His spirit and we live a life that is attuned to His life (which is a life of selflessness and sacrifice). When...

To remove fear from our heart we must have perfect love (1John4:18). To have perfect love, is to have perfect faith in God; because God is love. When we have perfect faith in God, His love expressed through His sacrifice on the cross (in order to expiate for the sins we committed against Him)...