Hey everyone, we've had such a tremendous response of questions and comments about our

series on moral principles that this Wednesday, August 7th, Dr. Troy Hinkle will once again be going live on our app, Daily Rosary Meditations,

from 6 to 7 p.m. Central. Just open the app and you'll get a notification to click when we go live.

Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today is the feast of the transfiguration.

Now, why do so many people think the very idea of God is boring. Maybe it's because they've been given

the wrong image of God. On the one hand, some people think of God as a God of wrath. This is a God of power, commandments, rules, and punishments.

A God who will throw you into an eternal torture chamber unless you follow whatever arbitrary

rules he dreams up.

That's a god who inspires fear but not love. It's not an attractive God. If that God didn't exist, you'd be relieved and if he did exist you'd prefer not to think about it.

But on the other side of the spectrum people have this idea of the buddy Jesus.

He's kind and generous and supportive and merciful and he makes

you feel good about yourself. That's a God who inspires love but not fear. Like a kid stuffed animal or a security blanket. It's warm

and comforting, but eventually you outgrow it.

And a lot of people, when they get to high school or college, they think they've outgrown their faith

when all they've actually done is outgrow the buddy Jesus, who isn't real anyway.

So both of these are wrong, the God of Wrath and the buddy Jesus.

It's definitely not the Jesus we meet in the transfiguration.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallow would be your name, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us the stare daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,

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