Archive for 'Conscience'

The Good Samaritan

Luke 10: 25-37
Gal 1: 6-12 / Ps 111: 1b-2, 7-10
And who is my neighbor?
(Luke 10:29)
Jesus is the Good Samaritan
Who came to save mankind from sin;
May we also lend a helping hand
To one in need, stranger or kin.
A scholar of the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit [...]

Clean Inside and Out

Matthew 23: 23-26
2 Thes 2: 1-3a. 14-17 / Ps 96: 10-13
You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, but have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity.
(Matthew 23:23)
What lies within is what is real,
And no amount of scheme or stealth
Can hide that time will not reveal,
Lord, give our souls [...]

Storing Up On The Real Treasure

Matthew 6: 19-23
2 Cor 11:18.21-30 / Ps 34
For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
(Matthew 6:23)
We are blind to the real treasure
If the wealth of this world is our goal;
We will find the cost beyond measure
If it should mean the loss of our soul.
Jesus said, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures [...]

WHY ABORTION IS SO WRONG!

Luke 1: 39-56
Zep 3:14-18 or Rom 12:9-16 / Is 12:2-6
Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
(Luke 1:42)
For all abortions men performed
All the angels in heaven mourn;
May all – by God’s will be transformed -
Rejoice for every baby born!
In those days Mary went with haste to a hilly town of [...]

The God Who is Faithful and True

John 13: 21-33, 36-38
Is 49:1-6 / Ps 71: 1-6, 15,17
Will you lay down your life for me? Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow before you deny me three times.
(John 13:38)
God tempers our fidelity
In the fire of tests and trials.
He’ll turn to good all inequities,
Even betrayals and denials.
As the time drew [...]