As of this past Sunday, liturgical churches have entered the Season of Advent. “Advent” means arrival or coming and the focus becomes the arrivals or comings of Jesus. One such coming is as a baby ...

While directing a church service by an enraged king, who had been rebuked my Matthew for his desires of a nun, Matthew was stabbed in the back. Philip the Apostle was called by Jesus Christ with 2 ...

The image of baby Jesus in the Bethlehem barn warms our ... Christ the kindhearted? Delightful. But Christ the coming King? On a stallion? Roaring out of Heaven? Crowned with the crowns of his ...

Perhaps no hymn characterizes the mood of Christmas Day more than Isaac Watts’ “Joy to the World.” You can almost hear the organ pipes and trumpet blast their clear call joy as ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. ‘Surely I am coming soon.’ The Bible’s penultimate verse, prophesying the return of Jesus Christ, has always ...