Every year, typically on Good Friday, churches preach Jesus’ last seven sayings on the cross. Some churches use seven different speakers, and each person covers one saying. One of the last things Jesus said on the cross was, “It is finished.” Why did Jesus say, “it is finished”?
" See: "Healing Scriptures" Attend to my words incline your ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from your eyes, keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all your flesh. Proverbs: 4:20-22 I shall not die - I will ...
It ignores many sayings of His, of which the parable of the Mustard Seed may be taken as an example, which prove that He anticipated for Christianity a long development such as it has actually passed through; and it fails to do justice to many passages in His teaching where He speaks of...
“Secondly, That Jesus Christ Himself, who came (into the world), was born of the Father before all creatures; that, after He had been the servant of the Father in the creation of all things–‘For by Him were all things made’–He in the last times, divesting Himself (of His glory...
But what do you do with Revelation 22:13, which appears to be Jesus speaking (see verse 16), when he says, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"? Doesn't the command by Matthew's Jesus to, "Go therefore, and teach all nations, ...
in the context of this blog, to point to theliving Realitythat ISChrist-in-youin conjunction with a close reading of scripture. Moreover, because of the very pointed criticism that its initial publication sparked in some circles, it was reviewed and edited rather carefully in the months that...
A 180-page book in 7 lessons that explores Jesus' core teachings on humility, plus the related virtues that come with humility. Lots of digging in Scripture.Old TestamentDisciple Lessons from the Faith of Abraham. This 172-page study explores the life and faith of Abraham, "the friend of ...
Treasury of Scripture And he said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. ...
to scripture, "For God commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in my heart to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ", according to II Corinthians 4:1-7, specifically verse 6; I Corinthians 1:1-31 and I Corinthians 2:1-...
The Plot to Kill Jesus - Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, that He said to His disciples, “You know that after two days