The Jesus Dynasty: How to Explain Away the New TestamentDarrell Bock
If the nonbeliever is open, tell him that you would be happy to pray with him. Offer to explain about how Jesus is the Savior of mankind and founded his Catholic Church as his instrument of love (see Matt. 16:18-19; 20:18-20; John 20:21-23). He might not be ready to formally...
That is particularly a disaster for communication if you’re trying to explain who Jesus Christ is, why his church matters, trying to witness to that to somebody else. That is already a hard job, and it becomes all the harder if you give in to defensiveness and find yourself trying to ...
God created you. Not only that, he loves you so much that he wants you to know him now and spend eternity with him. Jesus said, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."1 Jesus, who is Go...
The most accurate way to explain the meaning of Jesus is to leave it at the translation you give: "Yahweh saves". To change that to "savior god" strongly implies Jesus himself was God. That's a whole different nuance to "Yahweh saves". ...
The secret is to make this a glad lifestyle incorporated into every part of every day. Thus for the Jews in the time of Jesus, this was 6-8 scheduled events a day of 15 minutes to an hour or so each, and then various other parts of the day as they could, with even more ...
Romans 8:1. “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” I believe that every Christian who has feelings as I have just described is missing something, and it is what Paul mentions her...
John 15:18-19highlights the tension between the world’s system and followers of Jesus. While Jesus forewarned of the world’s hatred, history demonstrates that Christian faith has sometimes been legitimized and even wielded societal or political clout. This apparent paradox is reconciled when we...
catechism. You can create these worksheets yourself or purchase workbooks that include worksheets and copy them for the members of your class. Some ideas for fill-in-the-blanks include "Our**who art in Heaven," "Catholics believe in faith, hope and **_" and "Jesus is the son of___."...
No one theory can explain improvements in performance, but the most important factor has been genetics. ‘The athlete must choose his parents carefully,’ says Jesus Dapena, a sports scientist at Indiana University, invoking an oftcited adage. Over the past century, the composition of the human...