I want to share a topic that’s critical to our faith walk − the transformative power of God's Word. Charles Spurgeon said, “A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.” What a ...

I suspect that most of us stumble in one way or another over the “scandal” of the Incarnation. In the “Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation,” one of the principal documents of the Second Vatican ...

If we truly want to read and understand the Bible, there are principles that need to be adhered to for scripture to speak for itself and interpret itself. For example: • Allowing scripture to define ...

Many years ago, I heard a statement that has stayed with me ever since: “Man’s basic spiritual problem is the integrity of the Word of God.” From the opening chapters of Scripture, humanity’s trouble ...

For some decades now it has been a vogue to disparage the confession that the Scriptures are the very Word of God with the claim that since the Bible is made up of “propositional truth” it cannot ...

COMMENTARY: Pope Francis established a new important annual feast, the Sunday of the Word of God, to accentuate the importance sacred Scripture is meant to have in the faith, prayer and lives of ...

I think it's important at the end of every year to preach a sermon on the importance of God's Word in our lives, both personally and corporately. We can forget as individuals and we can forget as a ...

Synod of Bishops on “The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church,” Oct. 5-26, 2008 The final product of every Synod of Bishops is a list of formal proposals, or “propositions,” submitted to ...

The readings for this Sunday basically present a test case, as I suppose one could argue every Scripture passage does, of the idea of Inspiration, discussed in my last post on What is the Good Word?.

The category of “relation” has long been central to trinitarian theology, but in recent theology it has become a transcendental category, the leading feature not only of divine life but also of ...

In his column, “American churches, Scripture get it wrong on gays and lesbians,” Oliver Thomas lays out an argument for why the church has been losing members. “Churches will continue hemorrhaging ...

The Church celebrated the Sunday of the Word of God for the first time on the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time of 2020. This is a new celebration instituted by Pope Francis with the apostolic letter, ...