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In addition to receiving an ash cross on our forehead, services also have an Ash Wednesday prayer. Whether you, as a pastor, need ideas for the prayer, or you as a laity want to pray with your family before or after the Ash Wednesday service,...

Jesus is not only the example for our faith, but he is also the object of our faith. We endure and persevere because we want to know him and join him and share the blessings of his salvation.

What happened during Jesus’ final hours was agonizing, heartbreaking — and necessary. And the fact that it happened, that Jesus gave Himself willingly as a gift and sacrifice so we all could live in eternity with Him, shows God’s great mercy,...

The presence of angels in the Bible signals important, miraculous, and life-changing events. At the resurrection, the angelic messengers delivered the most important message about the greatest event in all of history: Jesus had risen from the...

Lazarus lived in Bethany, two miles southeast of Jerusalem, and was the brother of Martha and Mary. Jesus chose Lazarus to demonstrate His divinity as he foreshadowed what would happen on Easter.

The celebration of Epiphany, therefore, calls us to make this truth known to the world. We shine it out, we reveal it. We do not keep the truth of redemption to ourselves. After all, the gospel is too good not to share.

It sure helps to love invisible people. That’s why one rattles on and on about “The Family” while neglecting his kids. That’s why another “fights” for “social justice” by “raising consciousness” about “The Poor” while judging his friends on how...

To take up the cross means that we are willing to give up our self-centered desires and our own path in life. In the long run, following Jesus is well worth the cost of any endeavor and discomfort.

You may have heard Catholics or Anglicans talking about how they genuflect at church, but what's the meaning behind this practice?

The same God who fell at Pentecost and changed those men and women wants to do the same thing today.

Loving like Jesus calls us to a place of surrendering ourselves to someone else’s needs, doing so with gentleness, kindness, compassion, and mercy. Romans 12:15 calls us to take it a step further and to weep for those who weep.

We see the cross all the time, but what was the cross's meaning in Jesus' time? How did the cross's meaning change with his death and resurrection?

Yet this promise of the coming Messiah was made thousands of years before Jesus Christ’s birth. If we miss this, we miss the whole point of Christmas. It’s about the promise of eternity, and it’s about waiting a very, very long time.

The Articles of Faith of the Latter-Day Saints sum up Mormonism's core teachings and help us see whether Mormon teachings are truly consistent with the Bible. 

Theologian, pastor, and Protestant Reformer John Calvin played a crucial role in church history. However, there are some surprising things you likely didn't know about him.

Hosanna is often translated “Please Save Us.” It is a Greek word “ὡσαννά” that most scholars believe is the transliteration of two Hebrew words- יָשַׁע- “yasha” which means “to save or deliver” and אָנּאָ – “anna” which means “please, I beseech.”...

The Bible is actually completely silent on the holiday since it did not exist during the time the authors of the books of the Bible lived. The fact of the matter is, Halloween is actually connected to a Christian holiday known as All Hallows’ Eve.

As we begin Holy Week, it's my prayer that you'll begin the week cleaning house. And not cleaning your literal home with four walls, but the home within your body, mind, and soul.

Bobby Gruenewald is the founder and CEO of YouVersion and a pastor at Life. Church, where he leads innovation initiatives that merge technology with ministry. A former tech entrepreneur, Gruenewald helped launch the YouVersion Bible App in 2008 --...

If you have slipped back into a pattern of sin from which the Lord wants to free you, self-hatred is not a worthy sacrifice. Self-hatred is a rejection of the price already paid by Christ. The Lord loves us in spite of our best-hidden sins.