Category: Discipleship

With a Father’s Heart (part two)

June 8, 2021 / Michael Haverkamp

“[Saint Joseph] also teaches us that amid the tempests of life, we must never be afraid to let the Lord steer our course. At times, we want to be in complete control, yet God always sees the bigger picture.” It’s not always easy to accept the fact that we’re not

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With a Father’s Heart

May 25, 2021 / Michael Haverkamp

On December 8th of 2020 Pope Francis declared a “Year of Saint Joseph.” The pope also wrote an apostolic letter, “Patris corde” (“With a Father’s Heart”) proclaiming the virtues of Saint Joseph and encouraging the faithful to follow in his footsteps. For fathers especially, the example of Saint Joseph is

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Children are a blessing

September 29, 2020 / Michael Haverkamp

God is absolutely true, absolutely good, and absolutely beautiful. Every smidgen of truth, every iota of goodness, and every ounce of beauty come from God. Having children is a good thing. Having children is a beautiful thing. And having children is a true thing – true in the profound sense

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United with Jesus

September 15, 2020 / Michael Haverkamp

Suffering has no meaning – unless Jesus rose from the dead. The Son of God became man so that He could share in our humanity and raise us up to His divinity. In becoming man, while He did not sin, He accepted the wages of sin – suffering and death.

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Build on rock

September 1, 2020 / Michael Haverkamp

“Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. And everyone who

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As you judge

August 18, 2020 / Michael Haverkamp

“Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you

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God and mammon

August 4, 2020 / Michael Haverkamp

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. The lamp of

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Sharing in the happiness of God

July 21, 2020 / Michael Haverkamp

Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount by establishing the values by which his disciples are to live. From there he addresses the Law of Moses, not with the intent to abolish, but to bring it to its fulfillment, to reveal the fullness of its meaning. Jesus is both calling

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Let your light shine

July 7, 2020 / Michael Haverkamp

You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine

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As we forgive

November 6, 2018 / Michael Haverkamp

Just as we are all children of the one, true God, so too we all at times disobey God’s will, and are in need of forgiveness. Jesus’ death and resurrection conquered sin and death and gave us the grace to be able to share eternal life with him. But because

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Children of God

October 23, 2018 / Michael Haverkamp

What does it mean to be a Christian? What are the fundamental beliefs? God existed before all things. God created the universe and all that is in it as an act of pure love. God created “man in His image; in the divine image He created them; male and female

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