He rebuked them, saying: “Yet I am among you as the One who serves” (Luke 22:27 NKJV). He who was above us took a position below us so He could be with us as one of us. That was the incarnation. “You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had....
on a first reading, to be an immoral demand by the Lord and an unconscionable acquiescence by a prophet. Christians, of course, read the story typologically: God required Abraham to sacrifice his son in anticipation of God’s own sacrifice of Jesus Christ. In Jewish thought, the Akedah has...
“Dear Lord Jesus, please, please forgive me once again for finding it so hard to share my faith with others. Help me to be able to witness freely about You and Your strength. Don’t give up on me. Try me one more time. Amen and Amen....
angels came and attended to Jesus. However, the Pharisees’ disdain for Jesus was never appeased. Jesus’ teaching on: “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you,” never took hold in the Pharisees’ heart. ...
Thus, when the apostle calls Jesus Christ a "foundation," and speaks of building upon this foundation "gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble," adding that "every man's work shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is;" and, fu...
been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace . . .” Through the cross, He reconciled us to Himself, so when we believe on Jesus Christ, we “are no longer strangers and aliens.” The Getty’s hymn, “Jesus, Joy of the Highest Heaven,” puts it this ...
During the intermission I heard a young woman speaking to her friend as they walked by: “I didn’t know Judas betrayed Jesus.” It seems remarkable to me but there you go. We live in a very different cultural moment to the early 70s and the Jesus-story is not well known.Superstarwon...
no religious activity can ever satisfy the perfect righteousness of God. Works do not save—they never have, and they never will. The only work that matters is the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross, where He bore the penalty for sin in full (Mark 10:45; Rom 5:8; 1 Pet 3...
Today, though, as we celebrate Christ’s heart bleeding for love of you, can we just let him love us? Just revel in the promise of love in that bleeding heart? Because the heart of Jesus is calling to you, begging you to know that, in the words of my incredible friend Jamie, you...
Jesus has spent the last 2,000 years proving himself to us – what more do we need? Every time we lack faith, we are saying to Jesus, “Prove it!” Following Thomas’ demonstration of doubt, Jesus told him, “Happy are those who have not seen and have believed.” That is the ...