Christ

The Uniqueness of Christ

As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes. For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is…

A New Beginning

I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh … Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through our Jesus Christ our Lord! (Romans 7:18,24–25)

Authentic Christianity demands honesty. Honesty is the first step we must take to be saved — we…

Subduing the Stubborn Human Will

Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. (Psalm 118:27b)

This brief scripture passage describes the sacrificial animal, the lamb or the bull that was to be slain. It needed to be bound, tied up, so that it will not escape and run…

The Sufficiency of Christ

But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in…

The Amazing Christ

The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!”

Matthew 8:27

The gospel writers must have strained under the difficulty of presenting Jesus the Messiah to the world with their words. Without the…

Christ in Genesis, Part 1

You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. these are the Scriptures that testify about me…

John 5:39

We find Christ in the scriptures in many different ways. We first of all find Him…

The Resurrected Christ

And in the middle of the lampstands (I saw) one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across his chest with a golden sash.

Revelation 1:13 NASB

God’s Way

For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

John 17:8

Personal Light

God…has made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

2 Cor. 4:6

If I were to choose a verse to camp out on, one that would explain the miracle of God’s work in us, this verse would…

Christ the Human Hero

For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:5

Missing in much of our theology is the humanity of Christ. We have emphasized His divinity to the neglect of His humanity but the Bible is…