This is part four in my series on Trust. You can read the previous posts by clicking on their titles here:
Part One: Waking Up to our Need for God
Part Two: Wake Up and Lean Into God
Part Three: It is Well
Excerpt from Part 3:
“Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, it is well, it is well, it is well,with my soul.”
This is the level of trust to which we are each called. It is a trust that brings great freedom in our lives. When we can truly give it …

This is part three in my series on Trust. You can read the first two articles here:
Part One: Waking Up to our Need for God
Part Two: Wake Up and Lean Into God
At the end of Part Two I posed this question for you to reflect on:

If you woke up tomorrow and everything you had was gone, everyone you loved was no longer in your life, every part of your life that put a smile on your face was no longer there, would you still have joy in your heart, would …

God is Love: In the Company of Men
This is good news! 800 Men gathering to focus on Christ is a huge victory in our culture. I hope this story inspires more men to do the same.
Chris Faddis is a Catholic youth minister, speaker, and writer. He lives in Winston-Salem, NC with his wife and daughter.
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This is part two in my series on “Trust” You can read part one here “Waking Up to our Need for God”.
 

We have learned to accept exterior comfort in place of internal peace of heart and mind. I know it in myself. It seems I pray pretty darn well when I am in need of something. Boy I can pray when I’m trying to stretch that paycheck just a little further than it can go. But, when I have a little extra to throw around I find I don’t have …

I believe that if any lesson is to be gleaned from the tragedy of September 11, 2001 it is that no matter how much we have or how good our life is we need more than anything to cling to God. At the time I was working at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Tempe, Arizona as the youth minister. I awoke to a roommate knocking at my door saying to get up, something horrible had happened.
Together the four of us along with a guest watched in horror as the …

Todd Lemieux has a great post on The Meaning of Life: Sacrifice. This is turn our culture on its head kind of stuff.
You should read Todd’s blog over and over, then read Ephesians 4 and 5, then maybe read Todd’s blog again.
You also can check out my humble post on Sacrifice here. I didn’t get nearly as deep as Todd, but the discussion is a good one.
It is in the dying to self that we live!
Chris Faddis is a Catholic youth minister, speaker, and writer. He lives in Winston-Salem, NC …

In my post “Living Life-Giving Lives” I posed two questions,
1. What am I doing in my life that is life-giving or creative?
2. Am I seeking to give life to others through my relationships and encounters?
As I was writing two more articles on this topic I was thinking that before I went on further I would like to get some input from some of my readers on those two questions. Please read the “Living Life-Giving Lives” and come back here to post your comments to those two questions. Feel free to …

Today is a very special day as Fr. James Wall, someone I once had lunches with and who helped guide me early in my speaking ministry is ordained a Bishop and installed as Bishop of the Diocese of Gallup New Mexico. What an incredible blessing to know someone who is being called to be an Apostle, to be in the line of the original twelve. We are so blessed to have Bishop James Wall and I know that he will lead the Church of Gallup very well.
He is a wonderfully …

I’m very excited that in the next couple of days I will be launching a beautiful new site with a few more features and no google ads.
Thanks to all of you faithful readers for your support and feedback. I’ve always wanted to reach out through the internet and I’m finally finding the time and excitement to do so. After a couple of months of getting to know some of my readers and praying about this little blog I’ve decided to improve upon what I’ve done and add a few things. …

It’s Game Time. Are You Ready to Help Fight the Good Fight?
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Chris Faddis is a Catholic youth minister, speaker, and writer. He lives in Winston-Salem, NC with his wife and daughter.
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