"It's been an impossible journey — just should never have been able to get to this day. And here we are, 81 years later." ...

Reaffirming our baptism can be a powerful spiritual resource, especially in times when cruelty is beyond measure and ...

Settling at the site of Christ’s baptism, she is said to have lived the last 47 years of her life there. “We are 9 kilometers north of the Dead Sea, about 5,000 steps,” said Shaher Abo ...

In the near term, we are baptized “in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (6:4). Our pledge at baptism opens the way ...

It is a sacred structure that welcomes members to perform certain church rites, called ordinances, including baptism for the dead and eternal marriage sealings, as well as receiving instructions ...

After His resurrection from the dead, Jesus gave His disciples the Great Commission ... After all, God's nature is a foundational component of Christianity 101. Christian baptism is not baptism into ...

I’ve been a Catholic since my baptism, but the only Catholic tradition I remember my father handing down to me was lighting a candle “for the dead of the family.” Catholicism provides you ...

The Baptism Site “Bethany beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas) is located in the Jordan Valley, north of the Dead Sea. The site contains two distinct archaeological areas, Tell el-Kharrar, also known as ...

Civilians who gather dead Russian soldiers face many of the war’s perils along the front, where death is ubiquitous. Civilians who gather dead Russian soldiers face many of the war’s perils ...

Baptism symbolizes this union. Only born-again believers experience union with Christ (Romans 6:1–6). Christ does not unite with those still dead in sin (2 Corinthians 6:14–17). No one, including an ...

The baptism of the Holy Spirit has long been the subject of much ... The power Peter, John and the rest of the 120 received in that Upper Room enabled them to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out ...

A Georgia high school football coach was fired after he held a baptism service for 20 of his players on school grounds last month, according to a report. The superintendent of Tattnall County High ...