Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. By this he meant the Spirit, whom th...

In my last post, we looked at the Cross as Ascension , particularly in the Gospel of John. There we saw Jesus speaking of his death on ...

We often think of the Cross, the Resurrection and the Ascension as three events instead of  one. They seem to be separate in time; each is g...

There are passages in the Old Testament which, if interpreted literally , would portray God as a Zeus-like, retributive deity. But to r...

The Scriptures are about Christ. This is what he said to the Pharisees (John 5:49). It is what he taught the disciples ( Luke 24 and Readin...

What does it say? What does it mean? How does it apply? Those were the questions I was taught, in my earlier years, to ask when reading t...

Thoughts culled from my random file, gathered from my Twitter tweets , Facebook updates and Instagrams . About God, the mystery of the Inca...

These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes, in that...

Through the Incarnation, Christ participates in humanity, the only humanity there is and in which we all participate. Christ participat...

We are already in Christ as much as we are ever going to be, and Christ is already in us as much as he is ever going to be — which is 100%...

From the beginning, the purpose and project of creation was to make Man in God’s image and to be like God (compare Genesis 1:26 with Ge...

The Scriptures teach us that God is love and that God is a consuming fire. That is not saying two different things but saying the same ...

The last enemy to be destroyed is death. (1 Corinthians 15:26) Death has an expiration date, for it is the last enemy to be destroyed....

In a previous post, Luke 24 and Reading the Scriptures , I made the point that we ought always interpret the Scriptures in a Christ-cent...

In a previous post, Luke 24 and Reading the Scriptures , I made the point that we ought always interpret the Scriptures in a Christ-cent...

He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer the...

The Cross and Resurrection are not two different events but two different views of the same event.Yet many Christians have thought of i...

At the Cross, Jesus, in whom all the fullness of divinity dwells in bodily form, suffered for us, with us and as us — this is the trut...

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and on those in the tombs bestowing life. I love the icon of the Anastas...

“The love of God is the fire of hell.” ~ St. Isaac the Syrian What St. Isaac speaks is nothing more than the truth that God is love. ...