Author Archives: Fr. John Laffoon

One who Sympathizes With Our Weaknesses

One very late and stressful night of study during seminary, I hurled my Greek textbook at my bedroom wall. Multiple pages were ripped in half because of the way I…

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Friendship

Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” – Gen 2:18   This past week…

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Singing to the Lord

Be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart! – Ephesians 5:18b-19 Blind Spanish…

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Anger – Drive It Off to Some Mountain Place!

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as…

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The Prayer of Manasseh

Do you remember King Manasseh from 2 Chronicles 33? Chronicles forthrightly informs us of his record as one of the worst kings of Judah. “He did much evil in the…

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