Jesus is baptized and immediately goes to the wilderness, fasting for 40 days and 40 nights. He was led by the Spirit. Luke 4:1 says “he was tempted for 40 days.” Let’s just think about this for a minute – a desert (which means heat without relief, or maybe scorching days & ...
Indeed, Jesus gave a “Bible study” to His disciples when he talked with them on the first day of the week after His resurrection. It was not a New Testament Bible study because this portion of scripture was yet to be written, Don’t misunderstand, the New Testament is just as much o...
We know from Scripture (the Old Testament included) that this enemy of Jesus is Lucifer, who became Satan, the devil. Historically, we can see thisspiritin Biblical characters. Satan is working behind the scenes, deceiving and lying, to set up his plan to deface the image of God and to ...
Jesus is Not a Failed Messiah: Six Proofs from Daniel 9:24 1 year ago Read Time:47 minutes byTom Burk 3 comments By T K Burk Bible prophecy is about much more than just a prediction theLast Days,for found within its words is evidence of both the identity and the authenticity of the ...
God is also our: Father. “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” (1 John 3:1). When we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we become God’s children. Fathers instruct, guide, and discipline their children, but...
Everyone agrees that the Old Testament is difficult to understand, and it is. But when we take Nephi’s word and liken the scriptures to us, and in particular liken scripture to Jesus Christ, amazing insights can unfold. Here is what we can learn from Deborah, Jael, Gideon, and Samson....
12Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13“It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’but you are making it...
. It is interesting to watch Jesus respond to this request. First, He says, “You don’t know what you are asking.” Yet, surely James and John believe they do. Jesus asks of them: “Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”...
Jesus Christ was God or not.”[16]But the Church has understood that to look at Christianity in this way is to bring it completely to nothing. It is not enough to show man the meaning of life. He must be given strength for life. Man himself must be re-created. Mankind is saved ...
and theEucharistto be performedwithinthelifeof thecommunity”(Kee1997, 565) wherethe interplaybetweenChristian worshipandHolyScripturehasbeenmadeexplicit.Thisearlyunderstandingwasreiteratedby Ruth Duck:“At thecenter of Christianworshipis thewordofGod as witnessedin Scriptureandincar-natein JesusChrist.[.....