While common sense often provides basic insight which can be useful in making judgments, it is far from infallible. It represents what collective wisdom, handed down from the past, suggests for those ...

I'm sure for most of us, that Gospel seems quite grim, thinking that we have to hate our brothers and sisters in order to love Jesus. I can reassure you, at the very beginning, that in the idiom of ...

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In the beginning portion of his first letter to the Christians at Corinth, the Apostle Paul addresses the dangers of the church being divided over its leaders. Ultimately, we follow Christ and not any ...

Something I’ve learned from living by the ocean: Fishing boats go out at night. At midnight I often see tiny lights bobbing on the horizon, people out earning a living as I am going to bed. But in all ...

It turns out that lustily fighting for the truth isn’t what God asks of us. “Flee from youthful lusts,” Paul warned Timothy (2 Tim. 2:22, NASB). For Bible-believing Christians eager to live rightly, ...

Christians who do not really listen to the word of God and are only concerned with outward appearances are corrupt and idolatrous, Pope Francis said. Foolish men and women believe they listen but ...

Does the “foolishness of God” carry the connotation of “God playing the fool”? As in, God the jester? Is Paul saying that God the jester is wiser than the sages?

Recently, on an episode of The View, Joy Behar caused quite a stir. Vice President Mike Pence had made the comment that when he makes consequential decisions he talks to Jesus and he also said that he ...