Father, thank you for sending your son to earth as a small baby. Thank you that lowly shepherds were among the first to greet Jesus and for the reminder of the significance of the birth. We praise you, just as the angels and shepherds did on that night so long ago. Amen. ©Chrissy...
Sometimes God fulfills that verse with a pregnancy where the doctors have said it was impossible or a marriage and family when we least planned or expected it. But at other times He fulfills that promise in other unique and special ways like a teaching career with a special calling and ano...
Their fascination was no longer on the event that gives definitive meaning to all of life, the paschal mystery, but on the prospect of a more secure and comfortable life promised by science, technology, and clever management of the modern political and economic systems. God is not relevant to...
The next thing I thought about was in verse 14, “And if … his offering to the Lord is of birds …” This was the offering of a poor man. It was the offering that Joseph and Mary brought on the eighth day after Jesus was born. In and of ourselves, none of us has anything wort...
When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd andtouchedhis cloak, because she thought, “If I justtouchhis clothes, I will be healed.” Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. (Mark 5:24-29)...
The Catholic Church is no stranger to controversy and scandal, whether it be the Crusades or the Inquisition or the role of Catholics in the colonization of the...
You may wish you can have plenty of time to finish the long list, however, you may not have enough time to finish everything today before today ends anyway. Have you ever thought about how to face Jesus if you leave the world today? Are you still wandering around as a believer in God...
The First Prediction of Three Denials But where should I begin? Probably, I should begin on the night of that last supper we had with Jesus in the upper room. I had always been known as the one who stuck his foot in his mouth, but that night, I was really on a roll. ...
most unfair hatred ever known. He did everything perfectly… He loved perfectly… Even Pilate said he could find no fault in him. Yet the hatred reigned and Jesus was sentenced to the most brutal beating known to mankind with flogging, then the most tortuous death known to mankind, ...
Jesus was also thoroughly called slave of GOD [1] in both the OT and NT. Quran: All Bibles are mostly of corrupt [1] قول (Quran 10:94 and 10s others discussed). See also the 39+ members of trinity. Jesus called every believer a Muslim in Luke 6:40. John 5:30 "I ...