Tagged Bible study

The "old gentlemen" of Hawthorne's Custom House "must stay where they are; in the story of faith, however, such persons are often called forth."

The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are the story of our exaltation in union with Christ.

“O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding.”

After St. Peter’s vision, we cannot fantasize long about Us and Them. The whole creation is the raw material of a New Jerusalem.

Having intended to inflict suffering, Paul would become a man of sorrows.

God in Christ has undergone the worst of human evil and yet stood firm in the divine desire to forgive sinners and call into being a new humanity.

We have been chosen as witnesses through the sheer and utter grace of God.

On the Sunday of the Passion, the sermon is to a great extent the long Gospel reading of the events during the final earthly days of Jesus.

Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus with the full depth of his emotional life, and it is a love that they, in their capacity, returned and shared.

We see this prodigal son in others, and we see him in ourselves.