When Christ said that “no servant is greater than his master, nor any messenger greater than the one who sent him,” (Jn 13,16) he obviously does not mean that we cannot outdo and outshine our ...

In the short term, it is easy to fake being a follower of Christ. Discipleship requires action and conversion, the engagement of both hands and heart. Christ’s disciples do not earn God’s love by ...

ON Good Friday we meditate on the innocent suffering and death of Christ on the cross and its meaning. Christians all over the world do this as they trust in a God who gave his only begotten son for ...

Jesus had one burning desire, to be in the Father’s house. Jesus says His disciples should count the cost before following Him: “Whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple ...

The theologian H. Richard Niebuhr used to remark that when he set his Bible down on the desk, it fell open at Isaiah. This was no coincidence. Niebuhr reread the evocative words of the prophet so ...