Gentle Jesus ? ? ?
What does gentle and lowly mean for Jesus? The word gentle in the Greek, “praus” can also be translated as meek. We live in a world where to be gentle or meek is in many ...
Beauty of Jesus
Ride on! ride on in majesty!
1 Ride on, ride on in majesty! Hear all the tribes hosanna cry; O Savior meek, your road pursue, with palms and scattered garments strewn. 2 Ride on, ride on in majesty! In lowly pomp ...
C. H. Spurgeon on Jesus – written in the 1800’s
The entire person of Jesus is but as one gem, and His life is all along but one impression of the seal. He is altogether complete; not only in His several parts, but as ...
Six Surprising Ways Jesus Changed The World
But why does anyone care about this itinerant rabbi who lived 2000 years ago.? by John Ortburg Yale historian Jeroslav Pelikan wrote, “Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of ...
HE IS RISEN !
“Day and night declare to us a resurrection. The night sinks to sleep, and the day arises; the day again departs, and the night comes on. Let us behold the fruits of the earth, how ...
Christ Truly Died from Tertullian, Church Father – c. 155 – c. 240 AD
Christ Truly Lived and Died in Human Flesh. Incidents of His Human Life on Earth, and Refutation of Marcion’s Docetic Parody of the Same There are, to be sure, other things also quite as foolish ...
He Took Our Curse upon Himself
“Is there something more in his being crucified than if he had died some other death?” asks the Heidelberg Catechism. Answer: “Yes, for by this I am assured that he took on himself the curse ...
From Poetic Myth to Humble Fact – C. S. Lewis
The essential meaning of all things came down from the “heaven” of myth to the “earth” of history. In so doing, it partly emptied itself of its glory, as Christ emptied Himself of His glory ...
“Yea, He is altogether lovely.”—Song of Solomon 5:16 – Devotional from C.H. Spurgeon – Pastor from the 1800’s
The superlative beauty of Jesus is all-attracting; it is not so much to be admired as to be loved. He is more than pleasant and fair, He is lovely. Surely the people of God can ...
Gospel Meditations on the Incarnation: An Introduction
by ROCK BLACKWELL The Lord Jesus did not simply appear as an adult and go immediately to the Cross. Besides the Cross and Resurrection, to be fully biblical, there is (at least) another reality, that ...
“Seven Stanzas at Easter” by John Updike
Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall. It was not as ...
What’s So Good about Good Friday?
Why do we call Good Friday “good,” when it is such a dark and bleak event commemorating a day of suffering and death for Jesus? For Christians, Good Friday is a crucial day of the year because ...
Maundy Thursday – Jesus Washes Feet
Question: “What was the significance of Jesus washing the feet of the disciples?” Answer:Jesus washing the feet of the disciples (John 13:1–17) occurred in theupper room, just prior to the Last Supper and has significance ...
The Introduction – The Gospel of John
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was ...
He Gave What Was Most Precious to Show His Abundant Love
From St. Isaac of Nineveh (c. 613 – 700). “The sum of all is God, the Lord of all, who from love of his creatures has delivered his Son to death on the cross. For God ...
But Who Do You Say that I Am?
Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus asked the question: Who do men say that the Son of man is? But soon He brings the question ...
Christmas is Not a Myth
by Billy Graham When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth . . . his Son . . . —Galatians 4:4 Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. ...
An Unforgettable Life
Christianity arose out of a particular human life ending in a disturbing, terrible death—then, resurrection. The meaning of Christianity is undecipherable without grasping the meaning of Christ’s life and death and living presence. “Christ is ...
Jesus – Sacred Head Wounded – Hymn
O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down, Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, Thine only crown; How pale Thou art with anguish, with sore abuse and scorn! How does that visage languish, ...
Clement of Rome – On Jesus written in the first century KEEP
For Christ is of those who are humble-minded, and not of those who exalt themselves over His flock. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Sceptre of the majesty of God, did not come in the pomp ...