Yeshua.” In this single statement, Professor Dineke Houtman returns a familiar character to an alien environment, one in ...
“In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.” The word translated as create is a Hebrew word that only appears five times in the Scriptures, all five times in relation to God’s initial ...
“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ,” as St. Jerome said, and the hope for any Eucharistic renewal among Catholics in the U.S. depends squarely on them knowing Jesus Christ in the word so ...
Jesus is a faithful Son of Israel. If his people are summoned, then so is he. What will become a basic pattern of our ...
On Jan. 1, 2000, a group considered to be living apostles of Jesus Christ published their joint testimony to the world about the “matchless life” and divinity of Christ. The 710-word document — “The ...
One of my biggest grievances is when someone uses the name of Jesus to swear. This can happen when someone says, or even yells, the name in a fit of anger. Some expand the swear to the full “Jesus ...
‘Abba, Father’ is in the first sentence from the fresh lips of the twelve-year-old, even as ‘Abba, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit’ are the last words from the parched voice of the Crucified ...
A closer look at the climactic moment on the cross. One of the most famous lines in Scripture is also one of the most puzzling. We all know that Jesus, as he was dying, uttered the triumphant words ...
Who is Jesus Christ? This weekend, his 2.3 billion followers will observe Easter, the Christian high holy day marking his resurrection from death. Every decade or so, a cottage industry of scholars, ...
In Psalm 34:8 we read, “O taste and see that the Lord is good! Happy is the person who takes refuge in Him.” Sean Gonsalves, a former reporter for the Cape Cod Times, shared a story he heard an ...