Tag: Christ
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The Shield and the Cross: The Servant, the Soldier, and the Savior
When Jack Kirby and Joe Simon imagined Steve Rogers, they gave form to a yearning that lives in every heart: the longing to stand between evil and the innocent, to bear the blow meant for another. Captain America began as a fragile dreamer, a boy who could not fight yet refused to look away. His…
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The Essence of Abiding: Living in Union with Christ
“Abide in me, and I in you.” With these few words in John 15 the Lord gathers up the whole Christian life into one image. He does not invite us to admire him from a distance, nor to copy him as one copies a sketch. He joins his life to ours as a vine joins…
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An Open Letter to Pope Francis
Your Holiness, It is with both sorrow and necessity that I must take up my pen and write this letter, for a rebuke is never a thing to be lightly undertaken, especially when directed at the Bishop of Rome. However, when a shepherd of the flock distorts the nature of Christian love and misapplies Holy…
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The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares (Matthew 13:24–43)
The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares, found in Matthew 13:24–30 and later explained in Matthew 13:36–43, is a profound teaching of Jesus Christ that reveals deep insights into the nature of the Kingdom of Heaven, the problem of evil in the world, and the ultimate triumph of righteousness. This parable employs agricultural imagery…
Seeking Truth in Today's Troubled World 