Sunday, Feb. 18, is the First Sunday of Lent (Year B). Mass Readings: Genesis 9:8-15; Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15 The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained ...

Last Friday we started looking into the biblical way to respond to the truth that Jesus is God’s Son. Paul clarified that in Acts 20:20-21: “I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was ...

Paul Prather: President, janitor, clergy, heretic, Christian, Jew, Muslim, atheist —if you’ve got a brain, much less a soul, you ought to repent for your own good and the good of those around you.

The word ‘‘repent’’ has the puritanical flavor of guilt and punishment. It’s a pill of a word with a bad aftertaste, a turnoff to Christianity. Recently, I discovered that the original Greek word in ...

“You can be certain that at the forefront of every significant recovery from backsliding…the doctrine of repentance has been among the precious truths that God has quickened and used.” – Richard Owen ...

Entering into the Catholic Church as an adult, as many are preparing to do during this Lenten season, is a movement of faith that takes time. Candidates often wonder if this is the “right” time or the ...

The prospect of one’s imminent death, Samuel Johnson famously said, “wonderfully concentrates the mind.” The same might be said of observing major commemorative dates. The world rushes headlong toward ...

Most people do not like to hear that they need to change. But when Jesus calls for change in a person’s life, it’s good news, and it’s for their good. In the New Testament gospel of Matthew, we see in ...

In the summer of 1976, I was attending Melodyland School of Theology in Anaheim, California. After attending a class on evangelism, God called me to preach my first sermon on the street − on the ...