And we’ve already received it from Jesus our Savior. It’s the same blessing that Christ’s disciples were given right before his ascension into heaven. “And he (Jesus) led them out as far as Bethany, ...

As we take a closer look at this miracle, we will learn that it was more than just changing one liquid into another and that it signaled ... From the point of Jesus’ conception until His ascension, ...

The usual controversy that surrounds Jesus Christ during this period of the year is ... rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven will take, for many, His second coming to dispel or confirm!

Jesus claimed to have come from God and, unlike other humans, knew exactly where he was before being conceived.

Pope Francis marked the day after Christmas by noting Christians are still being persecuted for their faith, as the Church ...

Mary, the mother of Jesus, is unquestionably the senior saint within the Christian tradition. Yet we know remarkably little ...

Kristof: So let’s go back to the Nativity. Of the four Gospels, two describe the virgin birth of Jesus and two don’t mention ...

As he ascended into heaven the angels told the disciples, “Why do you stand here gazing up into heaven. This same Jesus shall come again in like manner.” From that day forward the disciples became the ...

It is into this darkness, symbolic of a fallen and broken world, that the light of Jesus Christ shines forth from a cave in .

Christians believe that Jesus "died for our sins." To my mind, that is nonsense. Jesus died because of the sins of the people of his time, not for the sins of the people of all time. Even so, given ...

My last column was about young theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the German church facing the rise of Nazism before and ...

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