To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this month of August we’ll be looking at one of the extraordinary metaphors that the Bible uses to illustrate the nature of our relationship with God. “Then Jesus declared, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty’” (John… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this month of August we’ll be looking at one of the extraordinary metaphors that the Bible uses to illustrate the nature of our relationship with God. It’s been a summer of devastating earthquakes. On June 26, a pair of monstrous quakes rocked Venezuela, claiming more than 6,300 lives. Earlier… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this month of August we’ll be looking at one of the extraordinary metaphors that the Bible uses to illustrate the nature of our relationship with God. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep… I know my sheep and my sheep know me”… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this month of August we’ll be looking at one of the extraordinary metaphors that the Bible uses to illustrate the nature of our relationship with God. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this month of August we’ll be looking at one of the extraordinary metaphors that the Bible uses to illustrate the nature of our relationship with God. “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this month of August we’ll be looking at one of the extraordinary metaphors that the Bible uses to illustrate the nature of our relationship with God. “You are the salt of the earth” (Matthew 5:13). The Jesus-following life doesn’t begin with a long list of “you must’s.” It starts… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this month of August we’ll be looking at one of the extraordinary metaphors that the Bible uses to illustrate the nature of our relationship with God. “Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand” (Isaiah 64:8). We… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this month of August we’ll be looking at one of the extraordinary metaphors that the Bible uses to illustrate the nature of our relationship with God. “As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this August we’ll be looking at one of the extraordinary metaphors that the Bible uses to illustrate the nature of our relationship with God. Irish parliamentarian Boyle Roche aimed to make a statement every listener would remember for a long time: He certainly succeeded – but not exactly for… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here What’s the most unsettling word in the English language? Etymologists have made plenty of suggestions. Words like macabre, phantasmagoria, and sinister are somehow able to combine meaning, sound, and cultural associations to trigger a sense of fear. Horror expert Sydney Bermudez would add that words like uncanny, mimic, and threshold can… Read more »
