The mystery of the triune is the underlying Catholic doctrine on salvation and grace. The Bishops of the Church over the ages have worked to provide unification and clarification on the relationship of the Holy Trinity. God the Father, the Word and the Paraclete existed as three Persons in...
It’s been quite some time since I was visited by Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses, but a few weeks ago a missionary from the JWs came to my door and has come back every week since, except this past Friday. He gives me his literature and insisted I watch a...
“1 Corinthians 12:31 31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.” Paul left a cliffhanger right in the middle of his first letter to the Corinthians. Although he didn’t divide his letter into chapters, the early fathers who assembled the text...
Who Jesus is, is not a mystery. The Bible tells us who He is very plainly. John 1:1-3, 14 “1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were...
The Lord’s Prayer – Lead Us Not Into Temptation, But Deliver Us From Evil Hebrews 4:15 “15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as without sin.” It is...
Forgive Us Our Debts As We Forgive Our Debtors Even though this prayer is made so often that we seldom really think about the words, most of us are probably very sincere about the first half of this, “Forgive us our debts.” We want God to forgive our sins....
(John 16:12-15) Jesus said to his disciples: “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever...
Our Father The opening address of the what we call The Lord’s Prayer calls on the name of the Father. When Jesus said, “Our Father,” He was making a declarative statement. 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. God is, after all, the progenitor, the...
Different religions have their own teaching on life and death, and heaven and hell, and it can all be very confusing. Forget about religion for a little bit. Organized religions are a way of identifying a group of like minded individuals and what they believe as a body. The teachings of...