Mar. 9—The Sermon on the Mount is a favorite scripture of many ministers because they feel that it expresses the essence of Christianity. Also known as The Beatitudes and related in Matthew 5:1-12 and ...

The Pharisees are often used to represent the pinnacle of religious achievement. They were scrupulous in keeping the Law of Moses. In the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5-7), however, Jesus ...

From The New York Times comes yet another testimony to the power of a second-half, come-from-behind exhortation. The Kansas City Chiefs were down by 10 points, with less than 10 minutes to play. Their ...

Calvin’s all-campus Bible study annually gathers students faculty and staff in many groups and many locations to study the same text. In 2010, Calvin studied Phillippians. In 2011: Psalms. This year, ...

As a child, I occasionally wondered where God came from. Closely related to that issue was the question of what existed before God existed. If God created everything, then how did God get here? I have ...

It’s a common saying that a homilist should prepare to preach with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. This week, as I was praying and meditating about our Lord’s teaching about being ...

Part 3 of Father Raymond J. de Souza’s five-part analysis of Pope Benedict’s book Jesus of Nazareth. Father Raymond J. de Souza Vatican August 21, 2007 This spring, Pope Benedict XVI published a ...

Have you heard the latest from some folks of the “Jesus-is-my savior/Trump-is-my-president” persuasion? They’re claiming the Sermon on the Mount was lily-livered liberalism. You can’t make this stuff ...