Darkened Glass Reflections

Category: Bible meditations

  • Milking Spiritual Authority: II. Growing Outward

    Milking Spiritual Authority: II. Growing Outward

    “So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good” (1 Peter 2:1–3; part 2 of a series).

  • Milking Spiritual Maturity: I. All or Nothing

    Milking Spiritual Maturity: I. All or Nothing

    “So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.”

  • Divine Flashlight

    Divine Flashlight

    “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalms 119:105)

  • Hungering and Thirsting for Righteousness

    Hungering and Thirsting for Righteousness

    “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied”

  • Rooting Out Pride and Cultivating Humility

    Rooting Out Pride and Cultivating Humility

    As a follow-up to my recent post about pride, I share a few practical biblical suggestions for dealing with pride and developing humility.

  • Killer Pride

    Killer Pride

    Perhaps one of the worst sins is one that almost all of us have, but few confess. We do not notice it in ourselves, but we recoil when we see it in others. That sin is pride.

  • Foolish Wisdom

    Foolish Wisdom

    If we choose to accept God’s wisdom, we will seem foolish to the world. We will think like Jesus thinks, worship like Jesus worshiped, love as Jesus loves, and forgive as He has forgiven us.

  • Recognizing Idolatry

    Recognizing Idolatry

    Idolatry is not only about praying to graven images. Greed and elevating any person or thing before God are forms of idolatry. Here are a few ways to decide if you are an idolator.

  • New Heart, New Spirit, New Life

    New Heart, New Spirit, New Life

    “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 36:26).

  • Ascension, Visitation, Pentecost: A Pro-Life Perspective

    Ascension, Visitation, Pentecost: A Pro-Life Perspective

    This article is based on a homily I shared yesterday at my church’s monthly Liturgy for the Preborn outside Planned Parenthood in Hempstead, NY. Since the feasts of Ascension, Visitation, and Pentecost were occurring close together, it provided an opportunity to reflect on how these three events in the life of Christ and the Church…