Prayer, the monks remind us, is something learned. This implies being a student or disciple -- a learner. We also must have ...

Israeli hostage Hisham al-Sayed was freed by Hamas on Saturday after a decade in captivity. Sayed, 36, a Bedouin with Israeli ...

These things are DIVINE POSSIBILITIES, and because they are His work, the true experience of them will always cause us to bow lower at His feet and to learn to thirst and long for more. We cannot ...

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I once shared with our congregation that one of the most difficult challenges associated with pastoring is not sermon ...

His most intriguing and publicly facing work is his 1954 “Rock Chapel” in Yucca Valley’s Desert Christ Park, that wonderfully bizarre 1950s creation of Reverend Eddie Garvie and sculptor ...

Ash Wednesday begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period is a tectonic time of year leading up to Easter. What we ...

Lent starts Wednesday, March 5, and runs through April 17, 2025. In the Christian church, Lent is a period of spiritual reflection before Easter. In Western churches, it begins on Ash Wednesday, which ...

We are called to receive the blood of Christ, the only begotten son of the ... we have God supplying manna and quail for the Israelites in the desert. While the people are in the desert after ...

With the recent apostasy of Kanye West, the issue of celebrity Christians has once again surfaced.

This year, the Jewish holiday of Passover begins before sundown on Saturday, April 12, 2025, and ends after nightfall on Sunday, April 20. The eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover commemorates the ...

Paczki Day does not fall on the same day every year because it is celebrated on Fat Tuesday, which moves in relation to ...