Parents, here’s what God has called you to: He has called you to be His first responders in the lives of your children. The fireman who willingly runs into a burning building or the EMT who runs up the stairs to assist a man who has just had a heart attack is on...
Catholic Public Domain VersionTherefore, you shall pray in this way: Our Father, who is in heaven: May your name be kept holy.New American Bible“This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, New Revised Standard Version“Pray then in this way: Our Father ...
or Elijah, or Enoch. No one prayed to Isaiah, David, or John the Baptist. When the disciples asked Jesus to tell them how to pray, Jesus addressed His prayer to “Our Father”, a reference to God the Father
In Christianity, the Holy Spirit is considered the third person of the Holy Trinity, along with God the Father and God the Son (Jesus Christ). The Holy Trinity is the Christian understanding of the nature of God as three distinct persons in one divine essence. "But the Helper, the Holy ...
“Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-wom...
and Syriac roots of such important technical terms as qur’ān (Quran), sūra (chapter of the Quran), āya (Quranic verse), or zakāt (almsgiving), ṣalāt (canonical prayer), ḥajj (great pilgrimage to Mecca), or ‘umra (small pilgrimage to Mecca); the role of Ethiopian Christianity...
A Definition Many Christians have heard of Lent, but do all know what it means? Lent means the 40 weekdays (excluding Sundays) from Ash Wednesday to Easter that is observed by Roman Catholic, Eastern, and some Protestant churches as a period of reflection, repentance, and fasting. ...
to penetrate the hard-worn surface of our habitual this-and-that, permit entry to images, suggestions, even fears that normally are held up at the gate. A summons to release your grip, filter beneath the spoken words, and let your mind be led far past the hard and fast and on toward...
“To spend time with a child is to dwell under the terms of an uneasy truce between the possibility of the present and the inevitability of the future. Our deepest hope for the children we love is that they will enjoy the liberties of an open-ended destiny, that their desires will be ...
2To God's people in Colossae, who are our faithful friends in union with Christ: May God our Father give you grace and peace. Prayer of Thanksgiving 3We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you.4For we have heard of your faith in Christ...