“Yes,” the young preacher said, “what is a church?” “The gathered assembly of believers in Jesus,” was the boy’s answer. The seminarian was speechless, not knowing where to go from here. The kid had stolen his punch line. From the seminarian’s point of view, there wasn’t ...
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, / equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to...
What is the Church for?If a member of an uncontacted tribe entered a typical Catholic parish today, how long would it take him to learn an accurate answer to that question? Recently, Fr. James Grant wrote in these pages aboutputting the parish mission into action. He points out clear prob...
“In like manner let everyone respect the deacons as they would respect Jesus Christ, and just as they respect the bishop as a type of the Father, and the presbyters as the council of God and college of the apostles. Without these, it cannot be called a church” (ibid., 3:1–2)....
Today, religion and politics, in most countries, tend to be more removed from one another. However, hatred and violence based on religion have gone nowhere. When faced with others who disagree with us, who may even be persecuting us, what would Jesus have us do? In Matthew 5:11-12, Je...
“I believe that now more than ever, Jesus is leading His church into the margins of our world, where the suffering is greatest and expressions of His love are most needed.” Richard Stearns, President of World Vision Where is the Church?by Steve Haas of World Vision. In this article, ...
Christ Church College and Pembroke College Jesus College and Exeter College Keble College and St. John’s College St. Catherine’s College and Magdalen College St. Hugh’s College and St. Anne’s College The assets of the colleges at Oxford total as much as £6.6bn! As with Cambridge, ...
32-35 Jesus said, “Tell that fox that I’ve no time for him right now. Today and tomorrow I’m busy clearing out the demons and healing the sick; the third day I’m wrapping things up. Besides, it’s not proper for a prophet to come to a bad end outside Jerusalem. Jerusalem,...
Those who accept a martyr’s death are promised a crown, but nowhere does the Bible grant an exemption for those who reject Jesus, coercion notwithstanding. Not in the Church Age, and not during the Tribulation. “Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall ...
Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.New Living TranslationRemember how the LORD your God led you through the wilderness for ...