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No Gimmicks Part 1
‘Something is true not because the Church teaches it. The Church teaches something because it is true,’ as quoted by Fr. Paul Check. A...
Andrew Comiskey
May 20, 20243 min read
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Limping to New Life
I Will Arise ‘Weary and weak—accept my weariness. Weary and weak and downcast in soul, With hope growing less and less, And with the goal...
Andrew Comiskey
Apr 1, 20242 min read
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House on Fire
I love the International House of Prayer (IHOP). Its crisis is our crisis. In ’99, Mike and Diane Bickle shifted from pastoring a church...
Andrew Comiskey
Dec 20, 20234 min read
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Desert Witness: Solitary and Free
“Who are you…what do you have to say for yourself? ‘I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness…’” (Jn. 1:22-23). Advent pops our...
Andrew Comiskey
Dec 17, 20233 min read
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Father’s Way (Walk In It)
In the face of children declaring to their parents any number of LGBTQ+ selves, I always listen for the father’s response. Not much to...
Andrew Comiskey
Jun 13, 20222 min read
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Ukrainian Refugees: A Polish Welcome
Ania Bandura Ania is a Polish journalist who interviewed me for a Catholic journal last December before our training in Kraków. We met,...
Andrew Comiskey
Mar 23, 20222 min read
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Day 30: Freedom to Confess
By Morgan Davis Desert Stream Ministries Board Member ‘I realize I don’t have what it takes. I can will it, but I can’t do it. I decide...
Guest Author
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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Day 29: Carrying His Cross
By Mike Nobrega Desert Stream Ministries Board Member I came to Desert Stream for help almost 30-years-ago: I was unable to break the...
Guest Author
Nov 10, 20212 min read
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Day 26: Freedom and Her Self-Knowledge
By Abbey Foard DSM Executive Director Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created...
Abigail Foard
Nov 7, 20212 min read
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Day 9: Rejoicing in the Body (From a Woman's Perspective)
I have a confession; I don’t rejoice in my body. Weird confession for someone writing on ‘Rejoicing in the Body’ huh? I thought so too,...
Amber Wheeler
Oct 21, 20213 min read
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Day 8: Rejoicing in the Body (From a Man's Perspective)
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
Adam Pane
Oct 20, 20213 min read
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How Deep Your Cross?
‘The rain came down, the stream rose, and the winds blew and beat against the house; yet it did not fall, because it was founded on the...
Andrew Comiskey
Apr 2, 20213 min read
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