David Rives, a Christian author and columnist, reflects on Matthew 3:17, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

2. Anointing: In baptism we are not just washed of sins, but we also become temples of the Holy Spirit. After baptism there ...

Catholics will celebrate the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. Christian baptism is rooted in a rich symbolism of water in the ...

[1 Peter 3:20-21] This Bible passage explicitly states that baptism "now saves you." St. Paul also taught on the importance of baptism for salvation. In Acts 16:25-34, the jailer of Paul and Silas ...

Baptism was not a new idea ... near the area where John was probably preaching. Some Bible scholars think that John may have had connections with this community. Matthew records that when Jesus ...

This new life in Christ begins in the sacrament of baptism. However, God the Father, who knows how to teach, prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament.

Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working ...

At 11 a.m. on Sunday Jan. 12, everyone is invited to celebrate the First Sunday after the Epiphany at Bethel AME Church, ...

The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany Beyond the ...

reminding me that the Bible describes St John dressed in his camel-hair garments, eating "locusts and wild honey". The baptism site, also known as Bethany Beyond the Jordan, is a Unesco World ...