El Poder de las Buenas Nuevas

No busquemos en san Pablo un tratado sobre la oración, pues nunca se lo propuso. Tenía muy claro que su cometido, tal como se lo había encargado el Señor, era llevar el Evangelio a los pueblos de la gentilidad. Sin embargo, en las Iglesias que va fundando en sus andanzas apostólicas, surgen problemas que irá solucionando con unas directrices muy claras y en las que se basa toda su espiritualidad: el cristiano bautizado es una nueva criatura (Gál 6,15) que debe vivir en Cristo y a Cristo, lo que supone integrar su comportamiento en esta nueva forma ontológica de su existencia. La...

Algunos textos tomados de la predicación del primer Prelado del Opus Dei. Las palabras del beato Álvaro del Portillo, fruto de su plegaria personal, ayudan a dialogar con el Señor en oración sencilla y confiada. Siguiendo las enseñanzas de san Josemaría, el autor ilustra la llamada a santificarse en la vida ordinaria, que Jesucristo dirigió a todos los hombres sin excepción.

Suffering is a global predicament, and the shepherds of God's people in every nation need to know how to minister to their flocks in times of trial. God revealed Himself to the Church through His Son's suffering and death on the cross. This title equips pastors to bring those entrusted to their care closer to Him in the middle of life's sorrows and afflictions. Through the use of selected letters, Martin Luther: Preacher of the Cross presents compelling evidence for the reformer's application of his evangelical theology. Luther believed that above all else, the pastor offers spiritual...

From telemarketers to traffic jams to twenty-item shoppers in the ten-item line, our lives are full of interruptions. They're often aggravating, sometimes infuriating, and can make us want to tell people what we really think about them. But they also tell us something quite important about ourselves. The prophet Jonah's life was interrupted by a clear call of God that made him mad enough and scared enough to run in the completely opposite direction. Yet it wasn't really an interruption. It was an opportunity for Jonah to be involved in something the likes of which the Old Testament world had...