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Following in the Footsteps of Jesus: Meditations on the Gospels for Year A is unavailable, but you can change that!

This personal meditation on the words of Jesus transforms us—more than all the explanations, sermons, and exhortations we read elsewhere, which reach us from the outside. People change from within. Jesus’s words reach within us to transform us unlike any other force. Perhaps this is one of the most serious problems of our religion: too frequently it is not the vital sap of Jesus that passes...

The message is clear and urgent. It is stupid to keep listening to the gospel without taking pains to make it a reality in life. This is building Christianity on sand. It is foolish to confess a faith in Jesus Christ that does not impact one’s life, void of its spirit and truth; it is to wait for Jesus with the light in the lamps gone out. Jesus may delay, but we cannot delay our conversion. «“Again, it will be
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