Worship has to do with ascribing to the Lord worth or value. It aligns with the first commandment: to love the Lord your God ...

Clothes can be used to deceive you into thinking someone is not who they appear to be. That is why con artists who prey on ...

A powerful symbol. With their soft, ethereal tones, the harp, lyre and zither have long held a place in the collective ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the revelation of the new pontiff’s baptismal name, in Latin, followed by his papal ...

More than a mere secretary for God, a prophet was charged with speaking the very words of God to His people, whether they wanted to hear them or not. Although we can infer a fair amount about Isaiah’s ...

Shavuot is the festival when Jews eat cheesecake and celebrate “matan Torah,” literally, “the giving of the Torah” at Mount Sinai. It conjures up images of the tablets being handed ...

The fact that the throne itself belongs to God, but the lamb then occupies ... citation of the Shema (Deut 6:4) in 1 Cor 8:4–6. On this, Gordon Fee uses very similar language to Bauckham’s concerning ...

For many of Donald Trump’s followers, his appeal has an almost mystical dimension. What happens when the spell breaks?

(Mt 6:21; 26:40) 4. When you look upon the Sacred Host, you look upon Jesus, the Son of God. "Indeed ... "The Lamb on the throne will shepherd them. He will lead them to the springs of life ...

First of all, we must understand that the Israelite’s, because of God’s revelation to them ... forming the throne of God in the inner sanctuary (cf. Exodus 25:18-22). Further, two cherubim ...

To many, the book of Revelation reads like a cryptic countdown to the end times — full of strange symbols, beasts and fire.