God has many names in Scripture, yet He is so much more than the sum of them all. His characteristics and nature are rich and commanding. His identity defies our human words or definition. His ways of ...

Photo courtesy of iStock. Credit: Sitthiphong. Ignatius Loyola, the Jesuit saint and founder, wrote a series of meditations called the Spiritual Exercises. In several instances, especially toward the ...

Matthew 21:21 (RSV) And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and never doubt, . . . even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will be done.” ...

"If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 ...

Fewer than half of Americans (44%) say they pray each day. This is a substantial decline from the first Religious Landscape Study (RLS) conducted in 2007, when 58% said they prayed at least once a day ...

The God who created space and time can also let the saints hear the prayers of millions of timebound humans. Limbourg Brothers, “Saint John on Patmos,” c. 1414 ) We know that God can hear simultaneous ...

Recently I realized I was eavesdropping on a prayer, the first in the Bible. I hadn’t noticed I was witnessing humankind’s earliest recorded reply to God. It’s Adam, knocked-kneed in his reticence, ...

Here is your daily Bible verse for today, Thanksgiving day, Thursday, November 28, 2019 for your quiet time with God or to journal in prayer. The holidays can be a stressful time, even when you are ...