Do you believe that every person you know who does not know Christ is “condemned already” and will spend eternity in hell unless they turn to him as their Savior and Lord (Revelation 20:15)? Believing that they need to believe is not enough: Are you praying for lost people by name? Are you seeking ways to share the good news of God’s love with them?
Here’s the bottom line: Our true legacy is determined not by what people think of us, but by what they think of Jesus.
A painting depicting Jesus greeting seamen in a lifeboat that was on display at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in New York has been covered up after complaints.
TV host and author Bear Grylls, best known for starring in Discovery's Man vs. Wild, recently shared a picture of Jesus on Instagram, describing Him as "a wild one" and "totally non-religious."
Super Bowl viewers enjoyed a pair of He Gets Us commercials promoting Jesus' love, ranking one of them in the Top 10 and another in the Top 15 out of nearly 50 ads on the Fox broadcast, according to USA Today's annual Ad Meter.
If you haven't seen their ads or billboards yet, the Super Bowl this Sunday night will offer the perfect chance to change that.
Jesus made all of that when he made you. What’s more, his omniscience and omnipotence are available to all who seek his wisdom and strength. This is because, unlike every other figure of history, the living Lord Jesus can be known personally by any who make him their Savior and Lord.
Buddhists do not claim that they can know the Buddha; Muslims do not claim to know Muhammad. But Jesus assured us, “I know my own and my own know me” (John 10:14). We can “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). Paul’s life purpose was to “know him” (Philippians 3:10). Here’s the problem: we all too often settle for knowing about Jesus when we can know Jesus.
Archaeologists in Israel announced this week that the site where Jesus Christ healed a blind man by the Pool of Siloam will be excavated and made open to the public for the first time.
President Joe Biden recently faced criticism for omitting the name Jesus Christ during his Christmas message last week.
The power to name and be named is, in Scripture, uniquely granted to image bearers. Scripture is full of examples of naming children, family members, friends, lovers, enemies, and self. Today, we approach language, particularly names and pronouns, with the assumption that we, and we alone, have a right to define our own reality. This ignores how much of the world is given to us, including the relationships into which we are born and that make up much of who we will become. Identity, in other words, is not “constructed.” It is, at least to a significant degree, received. For the vast majority of people, a name is the second gift their parents will ever give them, second only to life itself.
Jesus died for our sins as an adult. He did nearly everything we know of his earthly life as an adult: healing the sick, raising the dead, walking on water, and calming storms. In fact, except for one episode when he was twelve (Luke 2:41-51), we have nothing in the gospels about Jesus’ life from his birth to the beginning of his adult ministry.
If he did nothing else as a baby, child, or teenager that needed to be recorded in Scripture, why did he come as a baby who then experienced life as a child and a teenager before becoming an adult? Why did he not simply appear as the adult we see in his earthly ministry?
