Jesus said that if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell (Matthew 5:22). He also said that you should fight temptations to lust or else risk being thrown into hell (Matthew 5:29).

Going to hell is a self-explanatory metaphor for total ruination or damnation, but the addition of a handbasket is far trickier to account for. As Phrase Finder explains, in the absence of an obvious ...

The reality of hell and eternal punishment is not a popular topic, even among Christians. Part of the problem is that the nature of hell has been horribly distorted in our culture and portrayed as an ...

One of the earliest saints to receive a firsthand glimpse into the heavenly realm was St. John the Evangelist. In the Book of Revelation he described the heavenly Jerusalem coming with “the glory of ...

When I was a kid of ten or eleven years old, newly returned to New York after a few years living in Chicago, I started accompanying my mother to a church in Harlem, in a shallow, sunlit upper room ...