Avoiding a Lukewarm Path

The following is an excerpt from Ralph Martin’s newly re-released booklet, “What Happens When I Die?” This may come as something of a surprise, but Scripture indicates that lukewarm Christians have a chance of being damned. I was surprised, even...

The Fruit of Fasting

All of us are praying for people—for healing, for conversion, for a good job, for a good marriage, for financial provision, and many other intentions as well! In my own life, I’ve often noticed an acceleration in answered prayer for specific intentions when I’ve added...

Guide to Personal Prayer

Many spiritual writers, including the saints, offer suggestions concerning methods on prayer. Francis de Sales, very much influenced by his own experience of St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises, offers some suggested structures and formats for the practice of...

Growing in Freedom

[photo source] Everything that exists is a gift from God. Yet oftentimes we look to the things and creatures created by God for a satisfaction and fulfillment that only God Himself can provide. When the soul wraps itself around the things and the people of this world...