752 results for 'hard sayings'

How Do I Talk to My Teen about "Gender Fluidity"?(Post)

One of my sons attends a large public high school where it is not uncommon to see kids in various states of “gender fluidity”—but not simply in the sense of “feminine" boys and tomboy girls as I saw ...

How Did the Field of Blood Get Its Name?(Post)

CHALLENGE: Matthew and Luke contradict each other. Matthew says that the field of blood got its name because it was bought with blood money (Matt. 27:6-7), but Luke says it was called this because pe ...

Medicine for the Soul(Post)

When people ask me why they need to go to see a priest in confession instead of going “directly to God,” I remind them that they already believe that you can’t “go directly t ...

Does The Bible Condemn Repetitious Prayer?(Post)

The rosary is a popular Catholic devotion that the Catechism endorses as a “form of piety” that expresses the “religious sense of the Christian people” (1674). But for many Protestants, the rosary, ...

Are Jesus And St. Michael The Archangel One And The Same?(Post)

Please enjoy this excerpt from Counterfeit Christs: Finding The Real Jesus Among The ImpostorsJehovah’s Greatest CreationThe doorbell rings, and you peer through the peephole. Standing on your doorst ...

Jesus and True Peace(Post)

In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus says these strange words:“Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his fathe ...

How Did Judas Iscariot Die?(Post)

CHALLENGE: Matthew and Luke contradict each other. Matthew says Judas hung himself (Matt. 27:5), but Luke says that “falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out” (Acts ...

If We Reject God, We Will Never Truly Understand Ourselves(Post)

People lament that there is no longer a Christendom, but, you know, Christendom wasn’t exactly heaven on Earth. The Church doesn’t have worldly power any longer, and I don’t think that’s a bad t ...

Of First Ladies And Test Tube Babies(Post)

In recent days, former First Lady Michelle Obama admitted in an interview that she had her daughters through in vitro fertilization (IVF). In this excerpt from her new book Made This Way: How to Pre ...

Rising Like Incense to Heaven(Post)

Sacraments of Grace and Strength In the weeks leading up to my reception into the Catholic Church, I prepared to not only to be baptized, but also to be confirmed. The sacrament of baptism&nbs ...

The Bible’s Table of Contents (Post)

The Canon of Scripture and Its Origin The clearest example of a sacred Tradition that both Catholics and Protestants accept is the canon of Scripture. The word canon comes from a Greek word that m ...

The Early Church on Baptismal Regeneration(Post)

St. Justin Martyr’s First Apology dates to around 160. In the text we find Justin offering an explanation and a defense to the pagan emperor. That includes a description of what the Christians of his ...