This incident from the Hebrew scriptures prepares us for the gospel where Jesus says bluntly ... a shocking command to Jews then under the Roman yoke. To love is to go out to another with ...

In mid-March this year, Jews and many Christians alike will be celebrating Purim, the events in Jewish history where Queen ...

''Beloved I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers” (3 John 2). Most of us ...

Four hundred years before Jesus, it also stated God’s dissatisfaction ... marrying with cultures that they were not allowed to yoke with,” Rodgers said. “It has always intrigued me that ...

Fasting is essentially giving up food for a period of time to focus one’s thought on God. In the Old Testament, it was often a way of expressing grief or a means of humbling one’s self before the Lord ...

The poem on the Statue of Liberty says, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” This is an invitation for people to come to the United States. But this also ...

Robin Williams. The prevailing historical view is that Jesus of Nazareth was a preacher who lived in Judea and promoted non-violent resistance against the oppressive yoke of Roman rule.

The internet was probably never a net pleasant or edifying place. For most of its life, the web has been a repository for ...

What sin did Adam and Eve commit in the garden? Eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was a sin, but eating was not ...

Brethren, we are welcome to the month of the Trinity. Why?   It’s because the Trinity is the anchor of Christianity.   We ...