The Gospel passage today is Luke’s version of the beatitudes. It is critical to understand that beatitude is not something we ...

By Will Nordmark, Spiritual Reflections  As I write this, more of the information about the shooting at Virginia Tech University is being made known. We hear about deaths of service personnel and ...

Death is a door of entry into God’s heaven. Jesus said "I am the way, and the truth and the life." He also said, "I am the ...

While The Far Side doesn’t feature any one main/recurring character (like Garfield or Calvin and Hobbes), it does focus on a single topic across a number of comics - including God and heaven.

Big God, little Republican pathetic person that cannot stand for their democracy.” People clapped. “Here are your orders from heaven: Be strong, fear not … Your God will come with a ...

This is seen as the result of the refusal to accept the happiness that God wants people to share with him. Hell is the opposite of Heaven - it is eternity in the absence of God. In the parable of ...