In the Christian story, Jesus, the Son of God, is crucified—an innocent man executed by the powers of his day. His death was brutal, and for his followers, it seemed the end of everything they had ...

The hymn refers to Jesus as ending bondage, purging sin, breaking the “chains of death” and vanquishing evil. This imagery, she said, gives a sense of the “mystery of Christ’s death and ...

Being born again at that moment, Pagels writes in her remarkable “Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of ... different take on Jesus’ genealogy, the virgin birth, whether or not ...

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Within the Joyful Mystery are the events of the announcement of Jesus’ coming birth and Mary’s vital role in it, Mary’s visit with Elizabeth, the birth of Jesus, His presentation at the Temple, and ...

There's never a dull moment in the Howell household with 8-year-old Maisley's hilarious renditions of the Bible. Maisley attends a private school in Tennessee where they have daily Bible lessons.

One of the few facts on which there is consensus today is that Jesus was probably not born on the December 25 preceding the year 0, since the sources that mention his birth place it during the ...

Many of the prophecies, like those in Isaiah, were written centuries before the birth of Jesus. Cumulatively, they predict the conditions of His birth, meek and lowly; the location of His birth ...

The birth of Jesus was a divine intervention, the moment God Himself stepped into our world as a baby. Now this, in itself, is a gift beyond measure, a gift of love, grace, a gift of salvation ...

Experts say Jesus may be significantly older than most people would expect, dating his birth back to the first century BC. And, in bad news for anyone planning their festive celebrations ...

But, like the universe, Jesus is more than we can comprehend ... John attempted to capture His mystery in more symbolic language: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God ...

I have bad news for all of us. Two-thirds of the teaching of Jesus is directly or indirectly about the mystery of forgiveness. It is similar in other world religions and secular psychology.