Real Life Christianity with Deacon John Lozano

Part 1 of a 4 week Retreat with Deacon John, week one: ”Knowing Jesus Christ”

Please take some time to prayerfully reflect on each of these weekly topics.

The focus will be on Jesus: Knowing Jesus Christ, Deciding for Jesus Christ, Growing in Jesus Christ, Sharing Jesus Christ. 

 

This is a great way to prepare for and celebrate Christmas!

Seek and you will find

Asking questions, any question, with an open mind and heart is a primary way we encounter Jesus and grow in Faith

”That‘s just who I am” ...A meditation on identity

A classic homily from Deacon John explores the narratives we develop about ourselves. 

This Gospel story gives us a seemingly stupid question from Jesus which actually reveals a deeply profound way that Christ sees us. 

Angels and the supernatural

Our modern minds often easily dismiss anything beyond our five senses. But is there more to reality than what we see, hear, taste, smell, and touch? Is there a spiritual world? 

The most crucial question in the Bible

The Messianic question is the turning point in the Gospel of Mark. Deacon John digs into the implications of answers to this question. 

The problem with sorrow

Have you ever turned on yourself for feeling bad? What does the incarnation mean for our human-ness? What liberation does it provide? 

Jesus‘s ancestors: Murderers, Cheats, Prostitues and Adulterers

...And yet, God still used them and God still uses us.

 

This saying is hard, who can accept it?

A shocking Gospel reading. "Eat my body." Really? This shocking passage begs a profound question about how we encounter Jesus.

 

 

"If it's just a symbol, to hell with it" - Flannery O'Connor

We are all very hungry. What is this food we can not get anywhere else? 

 

The "professionally wise" versus children

Who am I that I would do these grand calls from God that we hear of in the bible?

Isn't that for the clergy? They're the professionals aren't they!