This is Father Robert Barron.

Friends, I invite you to reflect with me on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.

Word on Fire Catholic Ministries is a non-for-profit apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization.

We utilize media, both old and new, to share the faith on every continent, and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and his church. Through our efforts, we hope to take the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with Christ and his church.

Through our efforts, we hope to take the gospel out into the peripheries of the culture,

where the transformative power of God's word is most needed.

Let us open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's word of love for each one of us.

If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us

so that we might share the warmth and light of Jesus Christ,

who is the Word on Fire.

The global benefactors of Word on Fire,

with the support of the Arts Diocese of Chicago,

now present Word on Fire.

Peace be with you. Friends, in the 17th and 18th centuries,

a serious attempt was made to reduce Christianity to something that the mind could fully grasp.

That meant at one level a sort of deism, typical of a lot of our founding fathers, the view that God is a kind of a distant first cause

and not the vibrant, active, puzzling,

and surprising God of the Bible.

At the practical level, it meant the transformation

of Christianity ultimately into a kind of moral system. Now for a good example of the former,

take a look at John Locke's book, The Reasonableness of Christianity. It's a classic of kind of a deist

presentation of Christianity. For good examples of the latter, take a look at Emmanuel Kant's,

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