Combat medic SFC Jessica Harris found her hands steadied by prayer in the heat of an Iraqi firefight, subsequently learning – almost twenty years later, as this book headed to print – that every one ...

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“In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should ...

I saw the Lord,” Isaiah exclaims in Isaiah 6. And he describes what he sees. He witnesses God sitting on his throne in heaven; he observes the majesty and glory ...

Author Richard Foster tells how, as a teenager, he signed up for an internship in Alaska, thinking he would have the adventure of “working on the first high school above the Arctic Circle.” The ...

The greatest gift in the world — salvation — is completely free. God offers this most precious gift to everyone, and it remains available to each of us today. Romans 6:23 reminds us: ‘For the wages of ...

Former NFL fullback Heath Evans explained how he came to realize he wasn’t living a Christian life when he thought he ...

Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,” says Jeremiah in this Sunday's readings. Msgr. Joseph Prior compares the prophet's plea with the Beatitudes of Jesus, which encourage his disciples to place ...

God has become our shield of faith when we trust in his son Jesus. By putting our faith is Jesus we are coved by His blood.

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 ...

Jonah is aggrieved with God for showing grace to the people of Nineveh because he regards them as “outsiders” who are not ...

Musk told Jordan Peterson during an interview that while he's not "a particularly religious person," he would say, "I’m ...