“Is there a hole in the bottom of your statue?” our friend asked as he gazed steadily at our family heirloom of Our Lady of Fatima. Upon examination, we found that there was indeed a hole — one that ...
The Apostle Paul says in Romans 12:5, “For we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.” Paul compared the church to a human body, in which each part has a ...
I made a profession of faith at a summer camp when I was 16 years old, and I was tempted to get baptized right then and there, in the pool at the camp. My motivation to move quickly had little to do ...
Church discipline is as much about God as it is about erring believers. The Protestant reformers named three “marks by which the true church is known”: the preaching of the pure doctrine of the gospel ...