Teaching and preaching weren't at the top of Bishop Dorothy Daniel's list of career choices. "I wasn't even a good student in school," said Daniel, the senior pastor of Kingdom Life Family Center and ...

(See Mark 3:14-15, Matthew 4:12-17 and 13:1-52, Luke 4:14-29 and John 1:35-51.) The Third Luminous Mystery is quite expansive: “the call to conversion and the proclamation of the Kingdom.” All of ...

I woke up in the morning to some interesting dialogue on Twitter. Apparently Scot Mcknight has a new book, which I have not read, and it is getting some attention for his polemics around “skinny jeans ...

In Resident Aliens, Stanley Hauerwas and I warned that seminary biblical courses sometimes disempower budding preachers: See? You’ll never have the linguistic, analytical, or historical skills to ...

Hamilton's passage is but two verses long, but the chief idea of those two verses—the kingdom of God—knows no bounds. It's bigger than any one sermon, but Hamilton does a masterful job of helping his ...

Today’s Gospel, from Mark, offers details about Jesus the teacher. We witness how Jesus shares knowledge, shifts worldviews, inspires action and foretells consequences. We also get a behind-the-scenes ...

"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." We pray that the kingdom of God may be expanded from heaven to earth, that his will be done here just as it is done there. The kingdom ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

To Jesus the Kingdom of God was not a thing to be realized in the distant future, but it was to be achieved here and now, for he said: ‘Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand ...