Archive of Fr. Paul's Blogs

Fourth Sunday of Easter: Worldly prays to get into God’s Presence. Godly gets into God’s Presence to pray. Worldly looks for physical needs to be met. Godly seeks to have spiritual needs met.   Read more

Third Sunday of Easter. Questions at Easter time: After these things Jesus showed Himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberius. What is Peter doing with some of the Apostles way up in Tiberias? They were just in the upper room at Jerusalem. Now they are far away at the top of the Sea of Galilee.  Read more

Third Sunday of Easter: Worldly looks at what the person has done. Godly senses who the person is spiritually. Worldly prayer starts from the head. Godly senses heaven as a condition. Worldly prayer starts from the head. Godly prayer starts from the heart.   Read more

Second Sunday of Easter. "Peace be with you.” We try to change our worldly life to feel God’s Presence. Godly feeling God’s Presence changes our life. We try to be peaceful to feel His Peace. In feeling the Peace He has for and in us, we become Peaceful.   Read more

Second Sunday of Easter: Worldly life seeks to forgive the unforgivable to feel God’s Love. Godly life seeks to feel God’s Love to forgive the unforgivable. Worldly sees heaven as a place. Godly senses heaven as a condition. Worldly sees physical strength from God as temporary. Godly sees spiritual strength from God as eternal.   Read more

Easter Day. "Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father.” The resurrection is not an event from the past. It is an experience of His Presence in us now that changes our life. When we are thinking worldly, we try to be loving, faithful and hopeful to feel God’s Love, Faith and Hope in us. When we are feeling the godly Love, Faith and Hope He has for us and in us, we become loving, faithful and hopeful.  Read more

Easter Day: Worldly thinking only knows the physical. Godly thinking knows both and can choose which is best for them. Which would you choose in each case? Worldly sees heaven as a place. Godly senses heaven as a condition. Worldly sees physical strength from God as temporary. Godly sees spiritual strength from God as eternal.   Read more

Passion Week. “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I tell you, I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” The Passover meal starts with the lighting of the candles and the breaking and hiding of a piece of the Afikomen. Afikomen means “after the dinner” and refers to a kind of cookie dessert. The children search for the broken piece after the meal. Whoever finds it gets a special treat. Then they all were involved in the sharing of a desert. Each person has a cup for the meal. There are four times the cups are filled, each with special meaning. There is a place set for Elijah to come with a plate and a cup of wine as well. The door is left ajar for him to come as a sign the Messiah has arrived.  Read more

Sixth Sunday in Lent: Worldly thinking only knows the physical. Godly thinking knows both and can choose which is best for them. Which would you choose in each case? The Season of Lent is an opportunity to strengthen our spiritual abilities to look within ourselves. These exercises can help us discover the different meaning looking at the same scripture from the spiritual side can make. Thinking worldly, deliverance is protection from physical attack. Godly, deliverance is protection from spiritual attack.  Read more

“The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.” His words are for us today. There is a time right now for us to take care of ourselves. The poor we have with us always. If we do not take care of ourselves and those we love, there will be no one who can take care of our ministry. This is true for the World Wide Anglican Communion as well. We need to take care of our Church if we are to be able to do the outreach ministry we are called to do.  Read more