I describe a proper worship service as one where we read the Word, pray the Word, sing the Word, hear the Word preached, and ...
God’s Word has oral and textual dimensions, and we shouldn’t pit them against one another. Sometimes popularizers fail because they’re poor exponents of good ideas. This does not describe biblical ...
New listening options allow Christians to maximize their time in the Word. The Word of God never returns void—even if you listen to it in traffic, at the gym, or while folding laundry. A growing ...
This is a risk for all of us: overwhelmed by a barrage of words, we let the word of God glide by us: we hear it, yet we fail to listen to it; we listen to it, yet we don’t keep it; we keep it, yet we ...
“The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of ...
“For Christians, the Old Testament, taken as a whole, represents a journey toward Christ,” the late Pope Benedict XVI wrote many years ago. “Only when it arrives at Christ are we able to see what its ...
There’s a phrase that runs all through the Bible, and a lot of people misunderstand it. Scripture tells us that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10). When folks hear the ...
Ignorance of sacred Scriptures is ignorance of Jesus Christ, Pope Leo XIV said during his weekly general audience. "The ultimate purpose of reading and meditating on the Scriptures," he said Feb. 11, ...