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Elder Ulisses Soares teaches about the power of the Spirit in missionary work at 2025 Seminar for New Mission Leaders ...

Alawites in Syria face violence, displacement, and deep need. But many are open to the Gospel like never before.

Enjoy the peaceful lyrics of Now the Day Is Over by Sabine Baring-Gould, a timeless evening hymn of rest, faith, and divine ...

History and lyrics of O Come, Angel Band—see how this gospel hymn brings comfort and hope through its timeless message.

Churches are often decorated with greenery and flowers, symbolizing renewal. Special hymns like “O Heavenly King” (calling the Holy Spirit) are sung for the first time since Easter. An extraordinary ...

His life so often embodied that beautiful spirit, the spirit of the Jesus of the four Gospels ... The author of nine books, numerous published articles, one gospel song and the lyrics to three hymns, ...

Once in the chapel, they called on the help of the Holy Spirit by singing the ancient hymn, “Veni Creator Spiritus” (“Come, Creator Spirit”). Then the cardinals from more than 70 countries ...

So when he noticed a reference to an ancient hymn from hundreds of years before ... named the “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” and responded to pagan beliefs. “The Christians who produced ...

In 1918, archaeologists digging on a rubbish dump at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt discovered a tattered piece of papyrus on which was written the earliest surviving Christian Greek hymn that contains lyrics ...

Archaeologists unearthed the scrap containing the earliest known Christian hymn from the ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. Known as "P.Oxy 1786," the scrap contained lyrics of ...

On the other side were the music and lyrics to a song ... significant thing is that it’s a hymn to the Trinity — Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the century before the Nicene Creed,” he ...