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4 days ago · As you prepare to teach this Bible story to kids, try to demystify the truth of the gospel: God made a way for us to be saved through faith in Jesus. We cannot earn this salvation. Rather, our good works are evidence of our faith as the Holy Spirit empowers us to obey Christ’s commands.
3 days ago · Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus. He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah.”. ( John 1:40–41) Andrew was a fisherman and a disciple of John the Baptist before becoming an apostle of Jesus. According to John’s Gospel, Andrew was one of the first ...
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3 days ago · We find several references to Jesus’ brothers in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew. Jesus had four brothers named James, Joses (a form of Joseph), Simon, and Jude, as well as unnamed sisters. These siblings are referred to as the “adelphoi” in Greek, meaning “of the same womb” ^. In the Gospel of Mark, our earliest gospel record, the ...
3 days ago · Answer: Wine. Jesus was attending a wedding in Cana with His mother and friends when His mother reported to him that the wedding wine had run out. Jesus had men fill barrels with water and He changed the water in the barrels into wine. The first miracle of Jesus can be found in John 2. 5.
6 days ago · The Parable of Two Sons (found only in Matthew) is one of a group of three parables with the same theme built around obedience and disobedience to Christ. These are found in Matthew 21:28–22:14. This Two Sons Parable is the first, followed by the Wicked Tenants Parable (vv. 33–46), then the Wedding Banquet Parable (22:1–14).
5 days ago · That question becomes an opportunity for Jesus to expand on the role of the coming to the Apostles of the Holy Spirit, the “Paraclete,” by whose power they would reveal him to the world. Like Simon, we know little about Jude’s subsequent activities. Two matters associated with tradition have influenced his iconography.
3 days ago · Jesus, whose divine love alone can redeem all humanity, wants us to share his Cross so that we can complete what is still lacking in his suffering (cf. Col 1:24). Whenever we show kindness to the ...
