Andrew Comiskey
Courage and Conflict
Simeon prophesied to Mary as she cradled the Babe: ‘a sword shall pierce your heart too.’ (Lk 2: 35) He referred to the suffering that...
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Andrew Comiskey
Dec 6, 20122 min read
Courage and Consent
‘The sick soul fears more than anything else the demands made on one who is well.’ Joseph Pieper While addressing both Protestant and...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 9, 20122 min read
Water Rising
Deadened like you by a disastrous election (marriage trounced in four states, abortion’s champion re-elected—more on this later), I...
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Andrew Comiskey
Sep 3, 20123 min read
Getting Low for the Lost
8am: a man to whom I had been sharing Christ stopped our conversation short by introducing me to his new male lover then politely refused...
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Andrew Comiskey
Jun 6, 20122 min read
At Peace In War
Many see the end in sight: finally, our nation is recognizing that homosexuality is a moral good—utterly normal, utterly on par with...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 3, 20123 min read
Intimate Authority: Holy Week Meditations, 2
— Intimate Authority: Holy Week Meditation, 2 Luke 7: 36-50 introduces us to Mary Magdalene. Mercy drew her out of fear and shame, and...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 25, 20121 min read
Mercy for Minors
— Mercy for Minors 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 33 Truth wears a crown of thorns. (1103) Do not move an ancient...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 24, 20121 min read
Mercy for Marriage
— Mercy for Marriage 40 Days of Mercy Devotional – Lent 2012 – Day 32 O Jesus, You do not give a reward for the successful performance...
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Andrew Comiskey
Feb 28, 20124 min read
Merciful Discipline 1: Broken, We Pray for the Abused
— Merciful Discipline 1: Broken, We Pray for the Abused No wound runs deeper in the Church today than the sexual abuse of children by her...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 19, 20113 min read
Mercy for the Truthful Church
— Mercy for the Truthful Church ‘I will allow convents and churches to be destroyed…Souls without love and devotion, souls full of egoism...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 17, 20111 min read
California Supreme Court Upholds Prop 8
Once again, whenever the people of the USA vote on marriage, they uphold its true definition. Thank you voters of CA, the amazing...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 14, 20113 min read
Urgency and Mercy
— Urgency and Mercy ‘I have eternity for punishing sinners, and so I am prolonging the time of Mercy for the sake of sinners. But woe to...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 26, 20112 min read
Mercy, not Sacrifice
— ‘I am more generous towards sinners than to the just. It was for their sake that I came down from heaven; it was for their sake that My...
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Andrew Comiskey
Oct 16, 20113 min read
Father of Mercy for an Adulterous Generation
— ‘Apart from God, there is no contentment anywhere.’ (42) A painful fact of life for my twenty-something children is the sexually...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 4, 20103 min read
Reunion
‘He is risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid Him.’ (Mk 16:6) Resurrection is reunion: Jesus, torn from His Father, now...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 3, 20105 min read
Abandonment
‘But I cry to you for help, O Lord; in the morning my prayer comes before you. Why, O Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me?...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 2, 20105 min read
Turning for Good (Friday and Beyond)
We might receive foot-washing and communion and yet still not grasp the cross. Perhaps our need for that cross is not yet clear. We may...
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Andrew Comiskey
Apr 1, 20106 min read
Receiving the Fullness of His Love
Maundy Thursday makes one thing perfectly clear. It is God’s faithfulness that makes us faithful. On this night of foot-washing and...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 31, 20105 min read
Suffering for What is Right
In His mercy, Jesus redeems our suffering. Some of the sorrow we submit to Him is not of particularly noble origins—it may be, as we have...
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Andrew Comiskey
Mar 30, 20104 min read
Discovering the Cross in Our Wounds
During Holy Week, we pause to consider Jesus’ cross and the smaller one He asks us to carry. The goal? To know Him more. Perhaps He will...
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