It is wrong to think of the saints as “a kind of small circle of champions who live beyond the limits of our species,” the pope wrote in the catechesis for his general audience March 13 in St. Peter’s Square. Instead, they are “those who fully become themselves, who realize the ...
Many of the Jews and ancient Christians believed that the Sun was created on March 25th. It is assumed that when God created the Sun to “separate day from night” (Gn 1:14), this separation was equal. This only occurs on two dates throughout the year—the two equinoxes in the ...
5) A statement by local council head Mi’ilya (Massad Qassis), who is considered a “positive” man, and who is a former MK from a list linked to the Alignment: “…What moral right has the government to carry out expropriations in this region which, according to the 1947 UN resoluti...
Therefore, to scotch the rumour, Nero substituted as culprits, and punished with the utmost refinements of cruelty, a class of men, loathed for their vices, whom the crowd styled Christians. Christ, the founder of the name, had undergone the death penalty in the reign of Tiberius, by sent...
A National, and later Global, Sunday Law is on the immediate horizon, which will force Christians to decide whether they will remain faithful to God by continued observance of the seventh-day Sabbath, or reject him in favor of the world. This choice will decide the ultimate destiny of those...
Over the years as the church learnt, the blood of the martyrs was the seedbed of the church, but it wasn’t simply that death, it was the quiet patient acts of Christians who with the life of Jesus in them, blessed those who persecuted them, blessed and didn’t curse – who were ...
while 63.3% were church members.According to Pew Research, that number has rapidly declined to only 63% of Americans identifying as Christians in 2022. This meant though that these shorts were released into a culture where religious attendance was more expected and normalized, and that reflected ...
“God is not so much about fixing things that have gone wrong in our lives as He is about finding us in our brokenness and giving us Christ. When Christ is not central and supreme in our lives, everything shifts out of orbit and moves out of kilter. So for Christians, our first ...
We know that we are of the truth - That we are not deceived in what we profess to be; that is, that we are true Christians. To be of the truth stands opposed to cherishing false and delusive hopes. And shall assure our hearts before him - Before God, or before the Saviour. In th...
As Christians, we should all work very closely with the Holy Spirit in allowing Him to help us clean up our word life and how we verbally express ourselves to other people in this life. If we can learn how to get this part of our life properly cleaned up and sanctified under His direc...