Find out how “amazing” you are by naming these stories the Bible
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St. Paul Had Some Lesser Known Letters and they’re awesome!
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Another exciting discovery was made in the Vatican Secret Archives. As historians, biblical scholars, and manuscript specialists were cleaning out a broom closet near the stacks, one of the staff knocked over a broomstick setting off a chain reaction that culminated in quite a few items being thrown off a nearby shelf. The particular shelf
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Watch this Incredible Explanation of the Book of Job
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Our friends at The Bible Project are constantly making connections between Scripture and real life, reading and explaining the Bible in a way that is still relevant centuries after it was written. If you haven’t before, GO CHECK IT OUT! This non-profit organization strives to explain overarching themes in Christian Scripture by walking through the
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These true stories about the saints utterly will shock you!
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1. He changed his name for a good reason…now he’s telling us why! St. Peter was the only one of the twelve apostles to have his name changed by Christ. In John 1:42, the author writes, “And he brought the man to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be
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Gifs that PERFECTLY Summarize Every Book of the Old Testament
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The Old Testament is famously hard to get through, even for scholars. All those laws, genealogies, census’, and some prophet or another flailing and yelling about fire and brimstone–it’s all very important to our faith, but fallen human nature being what it is, our attention lags when there aren’t lasers or explosions or inter-dimensional space
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17 Popular Phrases That Jesus Actually Said First
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Who is the most influential person the world has ever known? A pop music star? A Hollywood icon? Another entertainer? Perhaps an educator, philosopher, or inventor? A political candidate or other occasional menace to society? Indeed, none of these. If you open a world history textbook used in many educational institutions around the globe, perhaps
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9 Times God Showed Us He’s the Best Pyrotechnician Ever
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The Lord has never been one to shy away from making a bold statement nor has He denied using the great power of fire at many times. In the Bible, “fire” is written quite often – 502 times in the Old Testament and 75 times in the New Testament. This is not just the traditional
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5 Vital Catholic Resources That Are Always Online and Always Free
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Did you know that, according to modest estimates, a Bible owned by a noble family in the Middle Ages would have cost the family the modern-day equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars? That’s more than a few flights back and forth to Rome to rub the foot on the statue of Saint Peter! And,
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Did You Know There Are Proverbs That Didn’t Make It Into The Bible?
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The book of Proverbs in the Old Testament has some great advice in pithy statements that pack a punch. Things like, “Grandchildren are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their parentage” (Prov. 17:6) come to mind. You could unpack that for hours and discuss at length what exactly this proverb
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If Bible Verses Were Taylor Swift Lyrics
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Taylor Swift is one of the best musical/lyrical storytellers of this modern age and she’s notorious for writing breakup songs. While listening, it occurred to me that some of her lyrics sound similar to Bible verses (not that they were inspired by Bible verses; I’m pretty sure they weren’t!). So here are 6 Taylor Swift
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Why Catholics Must Know the Bible: Bible Basics for Catholics by Dr. John Bergsma
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Catholics sometimes have the ignoble distinction of not being sufficiently familiar with the Bible, or as familiar as we ought to be. That is unfortunate, in either appearance or actuality, particularly considering that the Catholic Church provided all twenty-seven books of the canon of the New Testament, not to mention going on two-thousand years of
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Four Questions For Defenders of Sola Scriptura
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A commonplace argument among Catholic apologists, whenever the topic of sola scriptura arises, is that without an authority external to the Bible, one can not know which books belong in the Bible in the first place. No Protestant would argue that the table of contents is infallible, and yet somehow one must know that Galatians
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3 Verses That Fail to Prove Sola Scriptura, and Never Will
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In conversations with Protestants, the topic of sola scriptura will almost always come up. According to those who are persuaded by this idea, the Bible—sixty-six, not seventy-three, books—is the sole infallible rule of faith and practice for the Church. Whatever is not specifically in the Bible, or may be logically inferred from it, is not binding
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