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But with faith, any one of us can feel the Spirit doing the job of inspiring us, of encouraging us, of leading us in the ...

We must recognize that reaching the LGBT community, like any other group, is ultimately a work of the Holy Spirit.

Women In the New Evangelization retreat last year, Alyssa Bormes met a woman who had previously been away from the Church for ...

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has publicly declared his Christian faith, saying the time is right to "fully and publicly" ...

The message for this weekend looked at the idea if Jesus will return to earth a second time. Our senior pastor, Jim Burgen, covered the subject in about 30 minutes. I will not try to capture the ...

Love is simple, says Reverend Paul Anthony Daniels, because “in its most visceral form,” it boils down to three things: spit, ...

Sister Browning said that as leaders invite children’s discipleship, children can establish a foundation of love, service and ...

While I continue to grieve for those whose lives have been forever changed by this catastrophe, friends and colleagues among ...

I own an indecent number of social-justice T-shirts. Name a cause and I bet I have a T-shirt to match, Cynthia Astle says ...

When the day of Pentecost came, as Jesus promised, the Holy Spirit descended upon the 120 praying in the upper room in Jerusalem. The sound was as a violent wind, ...