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06/12/2023 – Group Discussion and Fellowship – Chapter 30 – “Detachment” from everything but God means that God alone is enough.

And from the 2nd to last paragraph:

“And the fact that nothing matters except God does not mean that nothing else matters. It means that they matter because of God, …

06/04/2023 – Chapter 29 – “Grace” group fellowship and discussion

pg. 131 – bottom of the page: “Grace and free will are not a fifty-fifty deal but a one-hundred-one hundred deal, like marriage.”

pg 132 – 2nd paragraph: …

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 …