But what does the Catholic Church teach about God’s Word?

Matt Swaim, Ken Hensley and Kenny Burchard begin a new series unpacking Dei Verbum, the Catholic Church’s official document on Divine Revelation from the Second Vatican Council. They begin by looking at the historical climate leading up to the council in the early 1960’s, and how that provided a new opportunity for the Church to re-articulate its understanding of how God speaks to His people.

As former Evangelical pastors, Ken and Kenny share how reflecting on this period in Catholic history has helped them to better appreciate what the Church has to say about the Bible and the nature of divine revelation.

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He shares how a comment during a Bible study in regard to the Ark of the Covenant got him to rethink his concept of symbolism, and helped him unlock a new way of looking at how God mediates spiritual realities to us through physical signs.

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She shares how the negative view she developed of herself in its aftermath was a distorted and damaging lie, and how the unconditional love of God eventually helped her to see the reality of her true dignity in Him.

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JonMarc Grodi and Kenny Burchard look at what it means to have a Christian worldview that takes seriously the goodness of the physical world, and how God uses it to show us who He truly is, from creation to the incarnation, as well as through the sacraments.

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From the flaws and triumphs of Church history, to the idea of a sacramental worldview, to the heroic witness of the saints, he came to see that much of the Christian heritage he’d always valued had been preserved through the perseverance of the Catholic Church.

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He shares how he continued to wrestle with what Jesus commanded his apostles to do in remembrance of Him, and why he chose to enter the Catholic Church on the feast of Corpus Christi.

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Jennifer shares how by reflecting more deeply on the Scriptures, and understanding Mary as the first disciple of Jesus who saw through his mission from the Annunciation to Pentecost, helped her see that there was much more to Mary than she’d ever noticed before.

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Is it possible to read and interpret the Bible objectively?

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In this final installment of our series on prayer, we look further at what the Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say about overcoming distractions in prayer.

The proper response to the inevitable reality of distractions is summed up well in Paragraph 2729:

“To set about hunting down distractions would be to fall into their trap, when all that is necessary is to turn back to our heart: for a distraction reveals to us what we are attached to, and this humble awareness before the Lord should awaken our preferential love for him and lead us resolutely to offer him our heart to be purified.”

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