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Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill completes his four-week overview of the Bible's 66 books, with the prophets and the Book of Revelation.
Jesus is the only religious leader who has risen from the dead. Each year we celebrate this truth on Resurrection Sunday ...
Paul repeatedly indicates the Scriptures (Old Testament) taught the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus. Even though they were observant Jews, His disciples did not understand these truths.
Centuries before Jesus was born, Jewish prophets had foretold his coming. During Holy Week, many of the prophecies made about ...
The Old Testament books are grouped in the following manner: 1) Historical books, which are arranged not in the order in which they were written but according to the order of events in time which ...
To give a proper perspective on the New Covenant sacrament of reconciliation instituted by Christ, we will explore the Old Testament prefiguration of this sacrament. In the next column ...
The Messiah is mentioned in several books of the Old Testament, but these were not just mere descriptions of a potential ...
Readers said that in the book, whose cover features children’s building blocks, the man speaks about how he has desired the teen since she was three years old. “About 12:30 pm [on Friday ...
The Bible mentions the Book of Jasher twice. The Book of Jasher was lost sometime in antiquity, and no mention of it appears ...
This may be the most salient virtue of Amusing Ourselves to Death: how readily the mental tools the book provides can be applied to media undreamed of when Postman was writing it. TV is very ...
When I taught World Religions at Carroll College years ago, I remember our text used Luke 15/11-32 (the parable) as the finest story in the New Testament for understanding Christianity.