The 40 days of Lent give us the opportunity to grow in our response to the Lord’s love through faith. The Sunday gospels for the next three weeks come from the Gospel of John. In these passages we ...

When I was little, I pored over the stories of the saints, especially the martyrs. I was morbidly fascinated by stories of little 6-year-old Conchita of the Drooping Veil who loved God so passionately ...

If you're like me, you were impressed by the athletes of the Milan-Cortina Olympics. In them, we witnessed both the rewards ...

Greetings and love to all in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. As we all know, much hate, sin, evil and satanic activity continues to invade the earth because of the spirit of rebellion ...

The American evangelist D.L. Moody (1837-1899) said, "If we could only make people believe that God loves them, they would be crowding into the Kingdom of Heaven! The trouble is that men think God ...

Does Abraham love God more than his fellow human beings? He immediately jumps to follow God’s command to offer his son as a sacrifice; he does not question and does not bargain. God comes first.

I would be devastated if God was a detached god. One who created us and then sat back and left us to fend for ourselves. A god who left us in our sins with no plan of rescue or hope for a transformed ...

"Is this love?" she asks. I regularly hear this question as a psychologist and pastor. We are ever trying to get our love life right. The English language is impoverished when speaking about love. It ...

Sunday, Oct. 29, is the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Exodus 22:20-26; Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51; 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10; Matthew 22:34-40. There was an expression common among the ...

With Valentine’s Day coming soon, I find myself reflecting on love. The Protestant Bible consists of 66 books — with 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses, and a grand total of 807,361 words. Written over ...