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It might come as a bombshell or like one raising dust, but simply, it was out of curiosity that I literarily devoured the Bible to know if there was any time Jesus laughed, any day during his lifetime ...

Jesus says to the Samaritan women ... prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament. As the Fathers of the church taught, the figures of baptism ...

The provocation we receive from today’s reading is not an indictment but an invitation. We are forgetful simply because we ...

What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

McCORDSVILLE — “A New Way: Volume 1 and Volume 2” will be performed live for the first time Sunday at Outlook Christian ...

I am writing in response to Jim Langley’s Feb. 15 commentary, “God Has Not Been Trumped,” which suggests that God has chosen President Donald Trump to ...

John the Baptist represents the last of the Old Covenant prophets ... one quarter of the New Testament, Luke-Acts presents an expansive understanding of the life of Jesus and the first Christians.

Several passages in the New Testament of the Bible tell of Jesus Christ's time in the ancient city of Chorazin, Israel, where ...

"It is tempting to see this moment as a crisis—perhaps even an unraveling. But history tells a different story." ...

It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, that this social media-driven version of manhood, with its power-through-vulnerability mentality, feels to many Latter-day Saint men as custom-tailored as the ...

Prophetess Joy Tony Okechukwu of Grace Abode Miracle Ministry, located at Ogba, in Lagos. She is the brain behind the Leading Woman Prophetic International Ministry, a weekly prophetic programme that ...