So if you have ever been to a job interview, you may have been asked what is your greatest strength. Your greatest weakness can be your greatest strength. And we can so easily identify ourselves with our strengths and our weaknesses. If you are positive, you most likely identify yourself with your greatest strength. You might identify yourself with your greatest weakness if you are a very negative person. But in the Gospel today, the 12 Apostles are named. And we do not know what their greatest strengths were or what their greatest weaknesses were. Here are the greatest 12 influencers of all of church history.
What mattered and how they influenced the world was that they belonged to Jesus. Your greatest strength can do a lot of good and change things, but belonging to Jesus and being His, can influence the world.
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Second Chances
So it’s about time we talked about Michael Corleone. In the second “Godfather,” Michael Corleone has all of the opportunities, so many second chances, to step away from the violence of the mob. But in all those second chances, he decides to choose everything that is not good. In the gospel for this Sunday, Jesus is giving us hope, but He’s also warning us. Jesus is always giving us second chances. If we turn back to…
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Love Like Jesus
So, our Newman Center just returned from our mission trip to Belize, which was unbelievable. But one of our students, who is just so awesome sauce, experienced something incredible when encountering the poor. She encountered Jesus. Not only did she encounter Jesus, but for the first time in her life, she loved how Jesus loved. In the gospel for this Sunday, we see Jesus’s heart burning on display, that his love is…
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Who Comes First?
The people we love should matter deeply, our family, our spouse, our friends, the people who need us. But in this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus asks a challenging question: who comes first?
When Jesus says that anyone who loves father or mother more than Him is not worthy of Him, He isn’t dismissing our relationships. He’s showing us the proper order of love. When Jesus is truly first, every other love in our life becomes rightly ordered.
So the question is simple but serious: is Jesus actually the center of your life? Family, comfort, plans, priorities. When everything is on the table, who wins? Don’t stand Him up.
