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The Rev Skip Heitzig, senior pastor of Calvary Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, delivered a passionate call for ...

The Holy Spirit is part of the Holy Trinity of God. Holy Spirit hovered over creation (Genesis chapter 1 verses 1,2), descended on Yeshua (Jesus) when he was baptised in the River Jordan and activated ...

Elder Ulisses Soares spoke on the role and power of the Spirit in missionary work at a devotional during the 2025 Seminar for ...

Speaking at the Ibero-American Congress for Life and Family, Travis Weber, attorney and vice president for Policy and ...

As we come to trust God, suffering doesn’t go away but is changed. There’s no place it can go where joy cannot reach, but there’s a place joy can go where suffering cannot reach. That’s called love.

​A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

On several occasions, Leo XIV took up the image of the Heart of Jesus as a symbol of the priesthood according to God and ...

May God, who through water and the Holy Spirit has given us a new birth in Christ, be with you all. All make the following or some other suitable reply: And with your spirit.

Dear friends, a Bishop is a witness to hope by his example of a life firmly grounded in God and completely devoted to the service of the Church. This will be the case only insofar as he is conformed ...

Former ESSENCE Editor-in-Chief Susan L. Taylor returns to “In the Spirit” to reflect on legacy, faith, and the power of ...

Jesus came to Galilee as a preacher, heralding the good news that God’s kingdom had come to men in the person of the servant of God ...