The Presence That Casts Out Fear. User’s Guide to Sunday, Aug. 9. Jesus Walks on the Water (1888) ... Today’s first reading offers a much-needed reminder that God is ever present, ...

For the same God who came to Isaiah, Simon Peter and Paul is still calling us in the church and beyond to encounter the living God, to be purified by his cleansing power, to cast off fear and to ...

Here, above all, we must live in the truth that “perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18). The word John uses is the same one we meet when we read that Jesus “cast out” demons.

I felt the presence of God’s blessing was extended to me through the hand of the Cohain. The Eternal was with me in a very special way and I knew no fear, but rather I felt an overwhelming joy ...

Whoever loves Him is not afraid: as the Apostle John wrote, ‘In love there is no fear.’ On the contrary, perfect love casts out all fear, because fear assumes punishment, and those who fear do ...

Trusting God, Abraham gives bread and water to Hagar and Ishmael and sends them into the wilderness. The scene shifts to mother and child wandering in the unknown—that place where fears overtake us ...

By Jenna Ebener A reflection I have been more aware of the spiritual world since my demonic experience in March. ...Read More ...