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Andrew Comiskey

Apr 17, 20173 min read

Satisfying Jesus

‘After the suffering of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied.’ (IS 53:11) God surrenders to man’s sin and death in...

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Andrew Comiskey

Jan 22, 20172 min read

(Not) Seeing, (Un)believing

Emptied and wearied by well-doing, I subjected myself to fools—fantasies that rushed into my void like sewage. I was as wanted and...

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Andrew Comiskey

Dec 31, 20163 min read

Ponder, Proclaim

‘Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.’ (LK 2:19) Many of us experience a tension between prayer and action....

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Andrew Comiskey

Dec 24, 20162 min read

Home. For Good.

‘The Word became flesh and made His dwelling with us’ (JN 1:14). In youthful efforts to find ‘home’, a place of belonging where my part...

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Andrew Comiskey

Aug 22, 20162 min read

Clear to Hear

‘I heard birds sing for the first time today.’ So testified a woman from our Mexican Training whose ears had echoed with demonic...

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Andrew Comiskey

Jun 27, 20163 min read

Annette

Love has a name. I discovered its meaning only when I chose to offer myself 35-years-ago to this person named Annette. What I thought I...

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Andrew Comiskey

Apr 25, 20162 min read

Ignite the Torch

‘The Church must accompany with attention and care the weakest of her children by restoring their hope like a torch carried among the...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 28, 20162 min read

Glorious Wounds

His smooth smiling face may have belied a deeper conflict but none was apparent. Jim responded to my story of sexual brokenness and...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 21, 20163 min read

Chastity and Mercy 6: River Rising

‘…Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, in...

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Andrew Comiskey

Jan 13, 20162 min read

Bowie

Crazy how a few songs can elicit a host of memories. David Bowie’s death at 69 this week flooded the airwaves with the soundtrack of my...

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Andrew Comiskey

Dec 28, 20153 min read

Long Way Home

Enslaved to many masters, a friend of mine wound up in jail. He sobered up when he realized that his ‘holding tank’ was a facility that...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 16, 20153 min read

No Minor Miracles

‘Everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; to him who knocks, the door will be opened…if you who are evil give good gifts to your...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 9, 20152 min read

Mercy: An urgent call for testimony

Mercy: An urgent call for testimony Barbara Vittucci (a longstanding friend of DSM/LW, Barb resides in Vienna, Austria and has been a...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 3, 20153 min read

Wedding Prep

Last week I discovered some unexpected momentum for our prayer/fasting time. While wondering how I might keep a prayerful focus amid our...

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Andrew Comiskey

Aug 17, 20153 min read

The Greening of Gender

Those of us who have reduced Pope Francis’ recent encyclical–‘On Care of Our Common Home’–to a holy call to recycle may want to...

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Andrew Comiskey

May 7, 20152 min read

Rocky: Freedom Fighter

Although America seems more inclined to celebrate the ‘Bruce Jenners’ who relent to perversion, I want to honor a man named Rocky who...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 30, 20153 min read

Lust in the Light

‘Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good.’ (Rom. 12:21) All sins are not created equal. Overeaters wear their vice in...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 26, 20152 min read

A Glutton For Nourishment, Part 2

‘Can you make the guests of the Bridegroom fast while He is with them? But the time will come when the Bridegroom will be taken from...

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Andrew Comiskey

Mar 16, 20153 min read

Greed: To Grasp or Give Away

‘For everyone looks out for his own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.’ (Phil. 2:21) The focal point of our faith and of most...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 22, 20143 min read

November 23, 2014: For the Poor

“‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, a sick person or a prisoner whom we...

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