This week, we continue with our discussion about heaven, and realize we’ve left many stones unturned. Even though our ...

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Inspiring short Bible verses to relish, meditate on and memorize.

P alm Sunday has the stuff that makes children's church programs so fun: palm branches, singing and shouting, a donkey and more. Yet these things also carry the weight of symbolic ...

58. “‘Sir’, they said, ‘We remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ ...

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:13). This verse of the Bible, like many ...

The early church believed that after his death Christ descended into hell in order to rescue the souls of the righteous.

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

Holy Saturday falls between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, marking the solemn time when Jesus was in the tomb after his ...