The Bible instructs followers of Christ: “Encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing” (1 ...

Due to a strict emphasis on following only the Bible (rather than a mixture of Scripture and tradition), the church of Christ ...

We know instead about other groups or schools or movements or parties.... The most conspicuous of these parties or schools will be the Pharisees. The Pharisees are known to everybody from the New ...

The Fourth Sunday of Lent shifts color from dark violet to rose, a symbol of Christ breaking the power of sin and leading us to the light of life, and from blindness to sight.

It's the loser in political campaigns that calls names. So, Matthew is losing when he calls the Pharisees hypocrites and says "war to them." That warns me that he is losing out to the Pharisees as ...

At that time: Jesus said to the Pharisees, 'There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted ...

The teaching of the Pharisees was that only if someone’s life was in danger was it permitted to give medical assistance on the Sabbath. Jesus taught that the right thing to do is to help someone ...