Amid growing concerns over a lack of discipleship in the global Church and the inability to keep pace with shifting ...

I will be teaching Released Time at Imperial Community Church where I will teach a 30-minute Bible lesson to 10 first graders ...

When was the last time you experienced fear? You may think a response such as fear is reserved for children or for those who ...

From concerts and plays to a free multi-disciplinary art festival, there's no shortage of things to do in the Coachella Valley and high desert this week. (And if you'd like to submit an upcoming event ...

In Matthew’s Gospel, the disciples of John the Baptist asked Jesus, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do ...

The gospel on the first Sunday of Lent is from Luke 4:1-13. In it we read about how Satan aggressively but unsuccessfully tempted Jesus in the desert. The first temptation took advantage of Jesus’ ...

Jesus shows the way through the desert Commenting on the Sunday Gospel, the Pope recalled the temptations Jesus faced in the desert, where He is “led by the Spirit.” And our Lenten journey begins here ...

After the baptism of Jesus, when heaven was opened and the Spirit descended, this same Spirit leads him into the desert. The Holy Spirit, the bond of love between the Father and the Son, is the ...

Let’s put things into context here for a moment in Luke’s Gospel — what’s happening in Jesus’ life as he experiences the temptation from Satan, the accuser, in the desert. He has just been baptized by ...

No disciple records this scene from memory. Yet somehow, we have been invited into the desert, to be alone with Jesus as he faces the Tempter. Why? Because his trials reveal the meaning of our own ...