What Is the Imposition of Ashes?
The sign of the cross is then formed on the forehead with ash as the call to repentance is proclaimed over you.
The sign of the cross is then formed on the forehead with ash as the call to repentance is proclaimed over you.
The power of God is not the power to be more oppressive than the oppressor, but to take all that the oppressor can do, and give back love.
It is not just a message we proclaim, it is the person of Jesus—he is the embodiment of the kingdom.
All the nations of the world are being invited to participate in the salvation and justice that comes through Yahweh’s Servant.
Jesus had not even learned to walk yet, and his family was already on the run.
Jesus had not even learned to walk yet, and his family was already on the run.
For many early theologians the enfleshing of God’s Son was itself a decisive moment of union between God and people.
Advent is the beginning of the Christian New Year, the Awakening Calendar, and leads us into an entire new year of orientation to the fullness of God’s work among us in the person of Jesus.
A litany for a new home: Heavenly Father, we pray that you would bless this house.
God is well pleased to give you the full measure of the Holy Spirit.
When they came to the place called Golgotha, they crucified Jesus, along with two revolutionaries: one on his right, the other on his left.
Hear the story of Jesus’ baptism afresh from this imaginative account by Ben Witherington based on our canonical Gospels.