+ “But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house” (Mark 2:10-11). For the Lord does the same with our spiritual sicknesses. He not...

+ For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ. (2 Cor. 1:15). Let us then not sink down when tempted… Whoever is in affliction and temptation, whoever is journeying on the narrow and difficult way, this person stands near to Him. For...

+ “Our Lord lifted up for us His hands on the Cross and stretched out were His hands for us. And why were His hands stretched out on the Cross? In order that our hands might be stretched out to do good works since it was through His Cross that...

+ You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. (2 Tim. 2:3-4). For when no one exercises in the wrestling school, how shall he [or she] win and...