In many Christian traditions, these final weeks leading up to Christmas are a time to prayerfully consider the “Great Day of the Lord” when Jesus Christ will triumphantly return and establish his ...

Most people pick up the Holy Bible when in need of divine inspiration and spiritual comfort. There are, however, those who study the Bible's books and chapters to learn more about the history of the ...

Zephaniah stands in danger of being overshadowed by his great contemporaries. He shares with Jeremiah an intimate concern for the plight of his people but lacks both the pathos and the scope of the ...

The prophet Zephaniah encouraged the people of his day to gather and pray: “Gather yourselves together…Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth, who carry out what He commands. Seek righteousness, ...

"Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem! The Lord has taken away the judgments against you, he has turned away your enemies. The king ...

As the celebration of Christmas draws closer, in Bible reading and study, many people focus especially on the Old Testament prophesies concerning the Messiah. Of course, there are the passages from ...

“Rejoice in the Lord always,” says Paul in this Sunday’s second reading, “I shall say it again: rejoice!” (Phil 4:4). This exhortation runs throughout the letter to the Philippians. Rejoicing is also ...

In music, a motif is a brief and repeated melody that anchors a longer composition. Literary motifs, by extension, are themes or expressions that animate longer passages of text. The Bible includes ...