Heart and Fire

A sermon about how encounters with truth—like Augustine’s discovery of Cicero—awaken a hunger for wisdom and call us to reorder our lives around love and discipleship.

It explains the need for a rule of life to carry authentic crosses, avoid false sacrifices, and center the Christian life on the Eucharist, where community and sacrifice are gathered for the life of the world.

This episode warns how carefully crafted angry emails and online posts can destroy charity and damage relationships, and asks whether our goal is to win an argument or to win back a brother or sister.

Using a personal story and biblical examples—the private approach in Matthew, the watchman’s love, and the promise of Christ present when "two or three" gather—the speaker urges correction motivated by reconciliation, not contempt.