Being at the place where Jesus was baptized by St John the Baptist (the name of the school I attended) was quite monumental and moving. In a lifetime of travel experiences through 50+ countries ...

I thought about the family response to these characters as I studied the Gospel accounts of Jesus' baptism. All four make a connection between John and Jesus, but only Mark and Matthew admit that ...

In an extraordinary display of faith, The Church of Eleven22 gathered at Hanna Park Beach in Jacksonville, Florida, where ...

Christ's Baptism 1223 All the Old Covenant prefigurations find their fulfillment in Christ Jesus. He begins his public life after having himself baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan.

Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards' youngest daughter, Lola, recently got baptized and publicly declared Jesus as her Savior, revealing He saved her from “battling severe anxiety” and gave her ...

In terms of the Jesus tradition, then, to have Jesus either submit to baptism, or himself baptize others, suggests that we are part of a culture that was looking toward Temple purity as its ideal ...

Matthew 28:19-20 Some Christians claim that according to the Bible, we do not need to be baptized in order to be saved, i.e. go to heaven. They claim that accepting Jesus Christ as personal Lord ...

Baptism likely originated from earlier ritual practices. Forms of purification by water existed in ancient Judaism, for example, in the mikveh, a "purification bath." During Jesus's time ...

It was a sea of hope at The Church of Eleven22's beach baptism event at Hanna Park in Jacksonville. Nearly 2,000 people publicly proclaimed their faith in Jesus among a huge crowd of supporters.

In his first homily since his election on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV noted many people today view Jesus Christ as merely “a ...