Welcome to «Live with Passion»! I’m Father Cedric Pisegna, so glad that you tuned in. This is from Luke chapter 18, Jesus told this parable, «Two men went up to the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, the other was a tax collector. Pharisee stood and prayed thus to himself, 'God, I thank you, that I’m not like other people, extortioners,...
Welcome to «Live With Passion,» I’m Father Cedric Pisegna, so glad that you tuned in. This reading comes from the First Letter of Peter and he writes, «Cast all your anxieties on God; God cares for you. Be sober, be watchful; your adversary the devil, prowls like a roaring lion, seeking somebody to devour: resist him solid in your faith, knowing...
Hi, I’m Father Cedric Pisegna, welcome to the program. It’s the third Sunday of Lent. I wanna proclaim to the gospel from Luke. «Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. Jesus said to them or replied, Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way, they were...
Welcome to «Live with Passion,» I’m Father Cedric Pisegna. I’m so grateful that you tuned into the program. I want to share with you from Ecclesiastes chapter 3, you’ve all heard this, «For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven. Time to be born, time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up. A time to kill...
Hi, I’m Father Cedric Pisegna. Welcome to the program. It’s the fourth Sunday of Lent and during the fourth Sunday of Lent oftentimes, we have this long gospel reading about the prodigal son. We’ve all heard that parable and I know you know what it is. I want to proclaim to you the center portion of it to keep it shorter. A reading from the holy...
Welcome to «Live With Passion». I’m Father Cedric Pisegna. I am so glad that you welcome me into your house or wherever you’re watching this program. I wanna talk to you today about wonder, living with wonder. This comes from Psalm 139. It’s a Psalm of David and he writes, «You have formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s...
I’m Father Cedric Pisegna, welcome to the program. We are now in the fifth Sunday of Lent, and at Mass we have a second reading, and it’s from St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians. «Brothers and sisters, I consider everything as loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things...
The Hope of the Rapture Well, church, listen. I don’t want to be in the book of Philippians this morning. Don’t even turn there. I don’t know about you, but if you look around at the world and what’s happening right now, there’s a lot of hopeless people. There’s a lot of people scared. There’s a lot of terrorism—it’s increasing. There’s...
Opening Scripture Well, grab your Bibles and turn tonight to Isaiah chapter 15—Isaiah chapter 15 and 16. In fact, from Isaiah 15 out to about the 23rd chapter of Isaiah, there are messages given to various national players. These nations are being addressed by the prophet Isaiah because of what the God of Heaven, the God of the Bible, has...
Introduction Listen, grab your Bibles. In fact, more than grab your Bibles because I’m just going to go too fast, but do have your Bibles ready. Grab the note paper that’s in front of you and begin to write some scriptures down, or get the teaching on CD or online and make a copy for friends or direct them, should they care about the message. I...
Introduction to Revelation 1:8 Have you turned to the Book of Revelation chapter 1 today? Revelation chapter 1, and we’ll focus on verse 8 specifically, but we’ll read the verses leading up to it in a moment. But look at verse eight, Revelation 1 verse 8, and it’s out of this verse where we get the title for the New Year’s message for this year....
What God Says About the Future Grab your Bibles tonight and turn to the 31st chapter of Isaiah—Isaiah chapter 31. And we’re looking at a message tonight entitled «What God Says About the Future.» What God says about the future. I’m going to encourage you tonight—if you write in your Bibles, by all means do that tonight. Get your pen ready. If you...
Introduction to Isaiah 28 I’m gonna ask you to grab your Bibles tonight and turn to Isaiah chapter 28. Isaiah 28 could be the longest title we’ve had—maybe, I don’t know—but tonight we’re looking at a message entitled «This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It’s Going to Hurt You.» That would be God speaking. Your parents ever tell you that? «No,...
Introduction to Isaiah 27 Church, grab your Bibles tonight and turn to the book of Isaiah, chapter 27. Tonight: Isaiah 27. And note-taking—if you’re doing that, I hope you are. But chapters 25, 26, and 27—we mentioned when we broke open chapter 25 that those two preceding chapters and this one now—these three chapters make up a familiar prophetic...
Why Thanksgiving Is Special I love tomorrow, and it has nothing to do with turkey. I love tomorrow, and it has nothing to do with football. Those are fillers. Those are fillers. Frankly, I mean, we may eat turkey, and we might watch a game—maybe, I don’t know—but just know this, and you do know this: tomorrow is a purely Christian holy day....
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