When they arrived at their destination of Emmaus, the disciples said, “Lord, stay with us.” That was a good prayer, even though they didn’t realize they were talking to God Almighty. And so Jesus stayed with them,

The two disciples on the road to Emmaus had given up hope and were leaving Jerusalem discouraged. Jesus, disguising himself, accompanied them along the way, listening to them. After drawing them out and hearing their complaints and disappointment,

What it means to lose your faith = I have more faith in the problems than I do in Jesus. That’s what happened to Peter — he had more faith in the problems and the difficulties than he did in the Word of God.

Peter had faith, but not enough. You and I have faith, but not enough. God sometimes puts us in fearful circumstances to test our faith. So much of what we do or don’t do is controlled by fear. The only thing we should be afraid of is offending God.

Lent is meant to get us fit and ready for the army of God. The trumpet call is supposed to wake us up to get ready. Who is called to wake up? Everyone, according to Joel 2. God is merciful, and He will take us back if we have been AWOL in the spiritual...

In the first chapter of Joel, he describes the plague of the locusts destroying everything. This is a symbol of the enemy’s army destroying things. We see the results of that happening all around us. Because it’s invisible, people are not aware of it,

Taken from Spiritual Exercises #230 Contemplation to Attain the Love of God. “Dedicate yourselves to thankfulness,” St. Paul tells us. As we are thankful, we are going to become more aware of God’s gifts. As we become more aware of God’s gifts,

Taken from Spiritual Exercises #230 Contemplation to Attain the Love of God. God loves us and wants us to love Him back. God is a shy lover. He is always giving us gifts, but we miss a lot of those gifts because we take things for granted.

In Acts chapter 3 we read about the healing of a crippled man. This man was crippled from birth and begged for a living, so his case looked hopeless if you judge it by appearances. But because Peter and John were thinking about “what is God’s will?

In the Old Testament and during the time of Elijah people worshiped the false god, Baal. In modern times we don’t worship Baal, we worship money. Escoger a quién vamos a servir, Parte 2 En el Antiguo Testamento y durante el tiempo de Elías,