Sermons by Fr. Benjamin Abouelkheir (Page 3)

If you ever find yourself in a situation where there’s no hope, it’s too late, you’re too powerless over it, it is impossible, there’s nothing you can do, you keep sinning and messing up

New generation or human condition, I don’t know? but lately many of us want maximum return/results for minimum effort. Unfortunately things don’t quite work out this way. What do you expect to flourish in your life? what work/effort are you putting into it?

How do you handle being interrupted? Do you hold everything in life with Open Hands? Willing to Accept Interruptions & Disruptions of your Plans? See the positive in things, Selflessness & humility, having priorities in the right order (Salvation, your’s or others’ always comes first) and Love. Err on the side of Love.

God is easy to please and to make Him rejoice. What are some things we can do that make Him rejoice.

Don’t be a “parasite”. Ask not what your Church can do for you; Rather ask what you can do for your Church. YOU have the power make your Church what you want her to be.

What are some musts that we can do in order to help our local Church to flourish?

Sometimes, something can be so clear in front of your eyes that you miss it. OLJC said that a house divided against itself CANNOT stand, yet we the believers who go to Church regularly, somehow miss that very clear statement and we do things that cause divisions in the Church. What are they and how to we get our local Church to flourish?