More than a mere secretary for God, a prophet was charged with speaking the very words of God to His people, whether they wanted to hear them or not. Although we can infer a fair amount about Isaiah’s ...

Hannah was infertile, and in ancient biblical times, a “barren womb” meant that God did not favor her. Worse, Hannah’s ...

We start with the Old Testament, and next week the New ... God warns that human eyes can be deceiving. The prophet Samuel was warned as he reviewed a lineup of Jesse’s sons to identify and ...

In the Old Testament, we discover that being anointed symbolizes the coming of the Holy Spirit. In 1 Samuel, we read about the prophet Samuel going to the house of Jesse to discover which one of ...

Biblical names never go out of style – they've been among the most popular names for centuries. Here are some perennial favorites, and some you may not be familiar with.

The Old Testament revelation ... consecrated to the Lord as a prophet, was Samuel, the judge and priest" (Sir 46:13). The prophet Isaiah proclaimed, "Hear me, O coastlands, listen, o distant ...

The Bible references women who follow God, hear God's voice and assume powerful political positions like prophetess Anna, ...

WE have once again exercised what many call the ultimate expression of our democratic system. Every three years, Filipinos ...

Palindrome names are balanced and playful – and many of them are also packed with meaning. Here are some to inspire you.

The Metropolitan Samuel has sometimes been charged with ... had to assume, like the Old Testament prophets, that their miseries had been willed by God. The Jesus of the Christian Gospels seems ...

Among these names, the most revered are the names of the prophets, the messengers of God, who delivered his word to the people of their time and place. They evangelized people, called the unrighteous ...

However, God the Father, who knows how to teach, prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament ... we hear from the prophet Ezekiel how God will ...