Jesus gave them authority to work miracles. This did not make them immune to sin. It did not keep Peter from denying Christ. It did not keep Judas from betraying Christ. In describing these men, Matthew calls himself out as a tax collector. ...
One in essence with God the Father, Who became incarnate on earth. For that truth, the greatest Fathers of the Church labored to the point of blood. They were unbending in the battle for this truth. They
and I imagine it brings up a tremendous amount of negative imagery in most, but it also means toentrap,tripup(figuratively to cause tostumble[transitively] orenticeto sin, To fall away from the gospel of Jesus Christ, or to offend.
Psalm 12:6-7 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. Jude 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that...
I have sincerely sought to answer the question, Can the teachings and claims of the Roman Catholic Church be validated biblically and historically? Is this Church truly the one true Church established by Jesus Christ? That study has been going on now for more than twenty five years and I ...
“For they [Novatians] have not the succession of Peter, who hold not the chair of Peter, which they rend by wicked schism; and this, too, they do, wickedly denying that sins can be forgiven even in the Church, whereas it was said to Peter: ‘I will give unto thee the keys of ...
This is a difficult topic, but it is truth. Truth is not always found on the main highway, but lies along the narrow path. It is not on the lips of the majority, but in the hearts of a few who seek it with all their heart. Jesus and His word is the “pearl of great price....
Suffice to say, my general sense of the book is that John provides self tests for believers to check themselves out on as they walk with Jesus. John provides a number of tests – I think I found 12 within the book – to help believers understand that the Christian life is a provable,...
Jesus receives the people that God The Father has sent to him, not because he, Jesus, has chosen them himself, but because they have come to him by the Father’s will. And Jesus doesn’t cast them out of his life (even if he might like to). If we truly understand that God is ...
Jesus spoke to his disciples long before the things he taught were written down. While tradition means a “handing down,” Sacred Tradition means the handing down of divine revelation from one generation of believers to the next, as preserved under the divine guidance of the Catholic Church ...