In this respect it is like Christ, whose character proclaimed the divinity of His person. Christ showed Himself more than man by what He did. The Bible shows itself more than a human book by what it says. It is not, however, because the Bible is written with more than human skill, ...
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Something that always rubbed me the wrong way while I was involved with church was this idea that the church should only serve its community in order to “convert” non-believers or get people into the seats on Sunday morning. This always felt so gross and manipulative. Jesus freely gave to...
Harry was a person with many interests and gave freely of his time to others. He built his own basses and co-founded the Bay Bridge Beat funk band. He was a regular on charitable events like the Waves to Wine MS ride , the Aids Ride down the coast of California or the ALS walk wh...
But verse 5 says that, when Timothy and Silas came down from Macedonia, Paul became completely devoted to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. Of course, Paul was always completely devoted to the word, so what difference did the arrival of Si...
Again, this is theoppositeof the message that Jesus brings to us. He is not called the “Prince of Peace” for nothing. The act also did several things it never intended to do. First, it granted far more attention to the Satanic Temple display than it deserved. That in turn granted so...
Directly across fromSt. Jerome, you’ll see a massive painting known asPalafrenierialso by Caravaggio. Basically, you see Jesus, his mother Mary, and Mary’s mother Anne. The work was originally created to be a centerpiece in the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome but ...
So, we’re dealing with love and discipleship. Jesus commanded the disciples to love one another as He loved them. “A new commandment that I give you that you love one another even as I have loved you so you shall also love on another.” But how did Jesus love them? He said: “...
The series of works, titled “Color(ed) Theory,” was an extension of Williams’s ongoing interest in the ability of color to simultaneously describe race and chroma. “I’m trained as an architect, so problems are always taught to be seen as opportunities,” she says. “However, that ...
NATHANAEL answered, ‘Rabbi, YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD, YOU ARE THE KING OF ISRAEL!’ Jesus replied, ‘You believe that just because I said: I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that.” (The Gospel according to St. John – Jn.1:47-49) Today is December ...