Common to all these variations in spiritual formation is the believer being conformed to Christ, a transformation enabled by ...

[LH, Hymn for Evening Prayer.] God is eternal blessedness, undying life, unfading light. God is love: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God freely wills to communicate the glory of his blessed life.

It appears to connect the practice of anointing with oil to the presence of the Holy Spirit in a person’s life. The Rev. Tony W. Elder is pastor of Wesley Community Fellowship Church.

Roman Catholics connect salvation to participation in church sacraments such as baptism, confirmation, and the Eucharist.

St. Joseph reminds us that those who appear hidden or in the shadows can play an incomparable role in the history of ...

For water is more than mere sustenance—it is the liquid of life, the sacred nectar blessed by the heavens. May the merciful rivers—boundless beads of blessings from the sky—sanctify us ...

THE original grace—the grace that made us who we are—is celebrated in the creation stories in Genesis. In the stories, God pronounced all creation, including humankind, very good (that is, full of ...

Fasting during Ramadan is mandatory for all Muslims, except for children, elderly, travellers, sick, and pregnant, breastfeeding, or menstruating women. However, menstruating women are required to ...

Here are a number of important volumes on the Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, tends to get less attention than the Father and the Son. He often can be the ‘forgotten God ...