Embarrassing Family Members In the Gospel of Matthew we read: While [Jesus] was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his...

The Gospel of Mark shows us that secrecy and fear are inextricably linked. After all, it was under the cloak of darkness, that the...

Time is an interesting concept. How we understand time, shapes our existence in more ways than we often care to acknowledge. If I were to ask you what year it is, you would say "2021" (the time of this writing). If I were to ask you why it is 2021, you may look at me with a confused expression on your face, as if to say, “what do you mean?” I do not think that we think about why it is the year it is as often as we should. Prior to modern scholars bastardizing our universal ti

After man sinned in the Garden of Eden, God punished man. God said to Adam, “Cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life” (Genesis 3:17). God punished man with the invention of labor, and because of this, man would have to work in order to survive. If he didn’t work he would die, simple as that. Sin Caused Death...and Labor Many people often mistakenly oversimplify the story of the fall of man and say that sin caused the punishme

I. Introduction The Bible is, at once – the most popular book of all time (according to the Guinness Book of World Records it has sold...

Hatred is not something that you can see -- sure, the effects of hatred can be seen: vitriol, vandalism, violence – but hatred itself is something that is only actually ever felt by the one who is filled with it, and never by the so-called “recipient” of it. That is to say, hatred exists solely on an internal basis, and thus its full essence is practically invisible. And because of hatred’s concealed nature, we don’t rightfully blame it for all of the trouble it actually caus

And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country for a...

What is a mystic? And what does mysticism have to do with the Song of Songs? According to Bernard McGinn, the preeminent scholar of Christian Mysticism, “The mystic wants to penetrate to the living source of the biblical message, that is, to the Divine Word who speaks in and through human words and text.” [1] In short, the mystic sets out to discover the true spiritual power hidden within the text. McGinn explains, “The entire Bible was viewed as having a deeper meaning. Natu

"Then he said to them, 'These are my words which I have spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the...