Jesus, the new Moses, stretched out His hands, not over a body of water, but over the kingdom of Death, over the very grave of the one man through whom Death had entered so long ago. And just as the Red Sea was torn in two, the kingdom of Death was split asunder, forever losing its tyranny on our race; and the strong man who deceived our first parents in Eden and held our race captive ever since, was bound by the stronger One

The Holy Land is often referred to as “the fifth Gospel,” as it forever changes the way a person reads the Bible. For those who have never been there, when the Bible is read or proclaimed, it can sound like a fairy tale. But to be there and to see where everything happened makes it all come alive.

For many of us, as we begin Lent today, and turn our minds and hearts to repentance and conversion, the biggest obstacle to holiness, healing, becoming spiritually mature, looking more like Jesus, is our unwillingness to forgive.

Reading good books gets us out of the world of click-bait, newsfeeds and headlines that often make up the bulk the of the mental furniture in our minds. Those things are often like junk food for the mind, whereas good books are like power foods. Lent is, then, I think, a time to put some good food into our minds