"Bishop Strickland: Faith brings us an ‘everlasting joy’ the world can’t possibly offer". LifeSiteNews
By LifeSiteNews Staff, Aug 4, 2024
On this week’s two-part episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland discusses the enemies within the Church, finding and keeping the pearl of great price, forming a good conscience, and more.
(LifeSiteNews) — On this week’s two-part episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland discusses being the wheat, not the weeds, in the field, enemies within the Church, finding and keeping the pearl of great price, forming a good conscience, and more.
Strickland begins the first part of the episode by offering commentary on Matthew 13:36-43, in which Our Lord explains the parable of the wheat and weeds in the field, the wheat being the children of light and the weeds being the children of the devil. The bishop emphasized that this Gospel reading, using the imagery of a garden, is pertinent for our times and that we need to remember there is a separation between weeds and wheat. While we need to co-exist with the weeds, we must be the wheat of the Lord to obtain salvation.
“The weeds are strangling out the wheat and so much of the world today. The weeds can take over, the weeds can really choke out the good plants of whatever kind, and they suck out the nutrients.” The bishop added that in our times, we have many weeds spreading false messages that cause others to sin. …
