It should be no surprise that Jesus emphasizes forgiveness as essential to prayer. When his disciples asked him to teach them how to prayer, he first drew them into his own relationship with God as ...

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 ...

A teaching sermon calls for a careful plan, clearly visible. Let us assume that a pastor has begun in good time, that he has a worthy goal with a royal text, and more than enough materials, from both ...

It’s 11 a.m. on a Sunday morning at First Christian Church in Edenton, N.C., and the congregation is ready for some straightforward, direct-from-the-Bible preaching from the Rev. E.C. Alexander. It ...

How a new pastor helped his congregation re-approach the throne of grace. The pastor who preceded me at Arcade served the church 40 years. Bringing change to this congregation would be either a ...

Not only is there a biblical basis for the teaching on purgatory, but the teaching also makes sense based on the promises contained in Scripture to those who have been called to be saints.

The four-day Aalmi Tablighi Ijtema commenced today after the Fajr (pre-dawn) prayers at Ghassipura, Eintkhedi. Opening the ...

Linda K. Wertheimer, a journalist and a former Boston Globe education editor who now teaches journalism at Boston University, is urging public schools to teach about the world’s religions. Her new ...

The renowned Psychiatrist Dr Karl Menninger is said to have devoted his deathbed reflection to the “Our Father” prayer of Jesus. Menninger, who died in 1990 at age 96, explored many religious concepts ...