As in all things, when we read a pas-sage presented to us in the Lectionary from the holy Gospel, we need to place it into ...

The Cross of Jesus is a cosmic event. The world is darkened, when the Son of God is given up to death. The earth trembles. And on the Cross, the Church of the Gentiles is born. The Roman centurion ...

Gifts, talents, and special abilities are distributed from God within the personal blueprint of our calling. Yes, all of ...

God has appointed us to bear fruit. In the spiritual life, it can be hard to judge whether we are blossoming or wilting, so ...

In it we read about how Satan aggressively but unsuccessfully tempted Jesus in the desert. The first temptation took ...

Isn’t that the reason why we study the Bible? Within its pages, we learn how to be the best person the Lord created us to be.

The Gospel of Thomas also suggests that Jesus is aware of, and criticizing the views of the Kingdom of God as a time or a place that appear in the other gospels. Here Jesus says, "If those who ...

The term atonement refers to the belief that Jesus dying on the cross resolved the problems between humans and God. These problems began with Adam and Eve, who went against God's wishes by eating ...

The only person who dares to wake up a king at 3 a.m. for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access.” This was ...