Parables of Jesus

blood, shed on the cross. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior” (BibleGateway, 1993). God sent His Son not only to atone for my sin, but also to give me eternal life with Him. “At the cross, Jesus signed the ultimate peace treaty in His blood, bringing peace to our rebel souls and making heaven our home” (Heitzig, 2010). With the Holy Spirit in me I am able to resist sin and am no longer bound by trying to get right with God through my…

to join him in Rome, saying he was now useful in the ministry. Mark was a close disciple of Peter so he heard Peter tell stories about Jesus everywhere they went. I believe…

APOLOGY NOT AN OPTION It was your desire to alienate me, but I prayed and God made me strong enough to stand up to the betrayal and move on without you You never called or tried to apologize for the ugly things you said, for me, even though they were spoken in anger, I have to believe those words were spoken in sincerity, even though you deny their intensity All it would have taken was two simple words, I’m sorry or I apologize, but your arrogance and your ego meant more to you, so you…

of the Shroud of Turin, and acknowledging the mystery within the Shroud that cannot be explained by science. In Trenn’s article he gives explicit descriptions of the Shroud of Turin which invokes ones imagination and thus causes one to reflect on Jesus. Trenn explains that the Shroud of Turin is a piece of material which measures over 14 feet long and over three foot wide, and is thought to be the garment that Christ was wrapped in after the crucifixion (Trenn, 1997). Trenn gives great…

Shadow of the Galilean: The Quest of the Historical Jesus in Narrative Form. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2007. Print Gerd Theissen is a Professor of New testament at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He has written a good amount of books, The Bible and Contemporary Culture, The Fortress Introduction to the New testament and The Religion of the Earliest Churches. The book, The Shadow of the Galilean is known for its historical fiction about Jesus and Andreas. In the beginning of The Shadow…

We look beyond the stigmatisms and differences and see that we are all the same, “shaped in iniquity and born in sin. (Psalms 51:2)” Just like us, they need the living water. They need to be introduced to Jesus. It is not time to sit back and relax in contentment that we know Jesus. Rather, there is an urgency to sacrifice ourselves and diligently use what the Lord has given us to “gather fruit unto eternal life. (John 4:36)” “Now it the accepted time, behold now is the day of salvation”…

of anti-Semitism within this gospel based on the Gospel of John’s negative representation of the Jews and their traditions. The Gospel of John is unlike any other gospel in the New Testament, considering the symbolic ways it presents the story of Jesus, even changing aspects of major events such as the resurrection of Christ (White, 1998). What makes the Gospel of John so distinctive, however, is the way it approaches the Jews - a way that viewers had never seen prior. In fact, a lot of people…

10:37: “Go and do likewise”. Samaritan’s Purse openly states that the driving force behind all that they do is the Lord Jesus Christ, and this will never be sacrificed no matter the mission. From the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, to aiding mission hospitals in Zambia, to earthquake relief in Nepal, Samaritan’s Purse uses and trusts in the healing and sustaining power of Jesus Christ in all that they do (“About Us”). Despite their clear evangelistic intentions in all that they do, Samaritan’s…

Gospel, Matthew was showing his community that they would get their guidance from Jesus. Matthew Gospel points to…

information about Jesus, His life and His ministry. This curiosity lead them to finding three main outside sources, Pagan sources, Jewish sources, and second- and third-century sources, that scholars have scrutinized to see if they contain information about Jesus that is not portrayed in the Gospels. Unfortunately, none of these outside sources provide much detail about Jesus and his ministry, however, some of them do mention Jesus. For example, one Pagan source does not even mention Jesus until…