Visitors from the East 1Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea, during the time when Herod was king. Soon afterwards, some men who studied the stars came from the east to Jerusalem 2and asked, “Where is the baby born to be the king of the Jews? We saw his star when ...
Have you come to punish us before the right time?” 30Not far away there was a large herd of pigs feeding. 31So the demons begged Jesus, “If you are going to drive us out, send us into that herd of pigs.” 32“Go,” Jesus told them; so they left and went off into the pigs...
Elizabeth, through the Holy Spirit, acknowledges the unborn Jesus as her Lord, a profound declaration of faith. This is one of the earliest confessions of Jesus' divine nature in the New Testament. The phrase also highlights the unique role of Mary as Theotokos, or "God-bearer," a term ...
and for some reason, the Lord will not answer my prayers to heal it. Jesus is Lord no matter what, and I will proclaim that truth to my last breath. I am still following Him, spreading the Gospel, and sharing my testimony, but I am a shell of myself and barely hanging on. ...
“Jesus did think of himself as the messiah.But not in the sense that later Christians said.For Jews of his day, and Jesus himself, the messiah was to be the king of the coming kingdom. Jesus understood the coming kingdom in completely apocalyptic terms. That is the key. He did not ...
It takes Jesus Christ, not just a bunch of good ideas, to create that mighty change of heart. Come Follow Me Podcast #24: “Have Ye Experienced This Mighty Change in Your Hearts?”, Alma 5-7 By Scot and Maurine Proctor Alma asks more than 40 questions of his listeners and really wan...
1. Jesus rides into Jerusalem upon a donkey12. drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple;17. curses the fig tree;23. puts to silence the priests and elders,28. and rebukes them by the parable of the two sons,33. and the husbandmen who slew such as were sent to them....
As Jesus’ crucifixion unfolds, His pain and agony caused Him to declare, “I am thirsty”. So the soldiers soaked a sponge in a jar of wine vinegar and put it to Jesus’ lips. Mistakenly, I thought this gesture caused the enemy soldiers to mock Him. Therefore, I did some research. ...
Where do you possibly misunderstand Jesus and The Church as incomplete? What might you be missing? “No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known” (Jn. 1:18). If God as Father is a mystery, how does Jesus want to show the...
When Mary and Joseph carried the child Jesus into the temple in Jerusalem for the first time, the aged and holy Simeon took Him up in his arms and exclaimed, “my eyes have seen Your salvation, which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light of revelation to the Gentile...