Will we be ready? So, which is it? Does God want to comfort us or does God want to scare us? A few years ago, a Jesuit friend of mine told me he saw a T-shirt that he really liked. The words on ...

Shunning comforts and risking their lives, the great prophets Elijah and Elisha stood fearlessly against pagan priests and kings who opposed the God of Israel. The Israelites fell into gross ...

At some point, our hunger must meet God’s “hunger,” symbolized here by Elijah. For us ... because there is such grave risk in riches and comfort. But there is a kind of freedom in poverty.

Listen The witness of the prophet Elijah echoes through the ages. The holy man’s life was filled with intense prayer and unimaginable signs and wonders. God blessed his servant in order to ...

What set Elijah apart from everyone else was that he had the Word of God The same is true of every born-again believer. If you are saved, you have the word of our Lord on salvation. If you have ever ...

[God] comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble. — 2 CORINTHIANS 1:4 Radamenes was just a kitten when his owner dropped him off at an animal shelter ...

(RNS) — God does not comfort us so we can simply be comfortable. God comforts us so we can comfort others. (RNS) — The Scripture readings during Advent are a mix of comfort and challenge.

Will we be ready? So, which is it? Does God want to comfort us or does God want to scare us? Or is God schizophrenic? A few years ago, a Jesuit friend of mine told me he saw a T-shirt that he ...