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05/29/2023 – “Spiritual Warfare” – Chapter 28 – Group Fellowship and Discussion

From our concluding paragraph: “Just as the peace of God is not the illusory peace that the world gives, so the spiritual war that is a part of holiness …

05/21/2023 – Chapter 27 – “Activity and Receptivity” – Group Discussion and Fellowship

Funny, Peter Kraft’s “How to be Holy” , is only around 160 pages but contains 35 chapters, so, as is typical, I end up summarizing further a chapter that is …

05/06/2023 – Chapter 26 fellowship – “Duties” // “The present moment is a ‘sacrament’, so we all have to be catchers, catching whatever ball of Himself God throws at us.”

Peter Kreeft sums up this short chapter with a quote from De Caussade: “we have two duties to fulfill: we must actively seek to carry God’s will into …

04/20/2023 – Chapter 24 fellowship – “Suffering” / How do we grapple with: “that this suffering means not that you are less loved by God, or judged to be less worthy, but more…” (Yes, I submit the prosperity gospel is “bunk”)

Last chapter was really my first criticism of Peter Kreeft. Well, I am back on course in Chapter 24!

I don’t know of any messenger of Christ that has gone …

04/15/2023 – Chapter 23 fellowship – “Failures”

Let me capsulize the three type of failures outlined by Kreeft:

Physical sufferings that come to us, independent from our actions and moral choices: It is rare that I take …

03/25/2023 – Chapter 22 Discussion – “Peace” // “Because He has made us for Himself, therefore our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.” St. Augustine – “Confessions”- written 397 A.D. – 400 A.D.

Recounted are the 3 stages of life:

Restlessness of the heart that has not yet found God.Post-conversion peace, the peace the world cannot give. (Romans 8:28)Perfect heavenly peace

“We cannot enjoy true …