(In this 84th installment of the UPI series of sermons, the Rev. Dr. John C. Compton, pastor of First Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., reflects on David's trust in God). This sermon is based on 1 ...

Genesis 12:10-20 recounts a more severe trial than a text message for help, Abram (later Abraham) faces a famine and is forced to seek refuge in Egypt. Fearing for his life, he tells his wife, Sarai, ...

The third action phrase is "in all your ways submit to Him." The concept of "submission" is summarized early in the Lord's ...

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We see it on our coins and dollar bills (and maybe even on our license plates) every day – our national motto – “In God We Trust.” But do we? Do we really trust in God? The evidence would indicate ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) In his address to the National Prayer Breakfast on the morning of Feb. 8, President ...

This past weekend at Mass, we heard the Gospel story in which Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish (John 6:1-15). This Gospel story has always stood out to me. How could a ...

How inner transformation shapes outward proclamation. Your preaching is not God’s work. You are God’s work. I received this vision in a peculiar way. As I was minding my own business leading a ...