However, God the Father, who knows how to teach, prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament. As the Fathers of the church taught, the figures of ...

The Father prepared his people throughout the Old Testament for the coming of the ... 1 Corinthians 3:16-17). In baptism we are born from above through water and the Spirit (cf.

Baptism is a sign of all these benefits, but it doesn’t automatically convey salvation any more than circumcision automatically conveyed salvation in the Old Testament, as Paul labors in Romans (Rom.

The Sunday gospel lectionary for the Third Sunday before Advent at the end of this Year B is Mark 1.14-20, the beginning of ...

Renewing Biblical Worship” for the 19th Annual Azusa Lecture, taking place on Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. in the Lee University Chapel ...

With his new book, the Canadian academic turns to the Old Testament to explain the necessity of faith to a fallen generation ...

For example, the water used in baptism is not “just” water but symbolizes the ... which has always been understood to be ...

The average distance of field goal attempts this season (40.2 yards) is the longest average since at least 2000.

Think back to the Old Testament to David’s rhetorical question ... A mortal sin is so called because it kills the grace that is poured into the soul at baptism. The person who commits a mortal sin ...

Most of what is written about Christian nationalism is silly Critics and analysts sweepingly deride conventional Christian ...

I was a 15year old on-fire-for-Jesus Christian who had a holy ... that we modern-day Christians have made baptism so complicated? St. Paul in his New Testament letters talked often about baptism as a ...

Interestingly, there is a gap of about 300 years between the end of Old Testament and the beginning of New Testament ... lived in the desert resembling their lifestyle and practiced the baptism ...