“In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.” The word translated as create is a Hebrew word that only appears five times in the Scriptures, all five times in relation to God’s initial ...
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In ...
In the first 18 verses John introduces his gospel with a poem. It starts out like the book of Genesis: “In the beginning.” It calls Jesus “the Word” and says he was “in the beginning with God” and ...
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God” [John 1:1]. Notice the Word has Capital Ws indicating The Christ, who is Jesus. The “Word,” Jesus, was in Heaven at the ...
This Lent, as in years past, the longtime music director at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, Mary Jones Rhodes, has organized a program called “The Seven Last Words”. She has chosen songs for ...
Christmas celebrates the finality of Christ’s incarnation. Christmas is the celebration of a conclusion. A baby who cannot yet talk is the divine Word of God spoken to humankind. A child lying in a ...
In the last letter, I endeavored to explain the revealing of God’s love seen in his creation, his chastisement, the cross and conversion of men. In this letter, I will explain the “word of God.” First ...
We tend to think that Jesus’ words transmitted to us in the New Testament convey to us his Gospel. They do, of course, but not exhaustively. For no multiplicity of particular words can say all that is ...
JESUS said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me (Matthew 28:18).  Words. Jesus not only spoke words ...