Unity at times, is sacrificial, in the way that love is sacrificial, a giving of ourselves for the sake of another. Jesus of ...
"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...
While much attention on cable news and internet chatter has focused on the conclusion to the sermon delivered by Episcopal ...
The surviving papyrus documents from the Galilee region (Jesus was likely raised in Nazareth in Galilee) show that Aramaic was the common tongue among the Jewish population. Early Greek ...
At the risk of oversimplification, the core issue at stake was a faith based on the real life and teachings of the real Jesus of Nazareth, such as found in the Sermon on the Mount and parables, as a ...
On Sunday, the “Narrative Lectionary” gifted me the scripture Luke 4:14-30, where Jesus preaches his inaugural sermon and makes the audience so angry they try to chase him off a cliff.
In his sermon on the Mount, Jesus of Nazareth exhorts us to love, not only our neighbors, but to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us. To be merciful as our God is merciful.
But that’s no reason to conclude that Jesus of Nazareth was a religious fable ... During Passover, Samaritan men walk to the top of Mount Gerizim—the site, they believe, of God’s true ...
The teachings of Jesus, such as the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) offer an interpretation of God’s law straight from the source. The compassionate living and grace Jesus exhibited toward the ...