Teaching by Tag: Jesus
The Names of God: Jehovah Shalom
The term shalom, in the Old Testament, expresses profound wholeness and well-being. True peace and wholeness can only be found in our Lord Jesus Christ, who doesn’t just provide peace, but He is peace.
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Him We Proclaim
Why do we proclaim Christ? Because He is the glory of the Father, the one who gives grace that brings us back to God. Christ is not only the center, He is the very content of the gospel, and He is all we need.
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Portraits of Christ: The Son of God
What we confess to be true is what we will proclaim to others. The most excellent proclamation we can make is that Jesus is the Son of God. It is His Sonship that forms the canvas upon which we would paint any other portrait of Jesus.
Watch / ListenPortraits of Christ: The Final Judge
Jesus is the final Judge who knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment. Knowing about the judgment to come should make followers of Jesus eager to share the good news with everyone!
Watch / ListenPortraits of Christ: Our Life
Christ is the answer for eternal life. Christ is the answer for daily, victorious life. How do we walk through this life? We set our mind on the truths of Christ.
Watch / ListenPortraits of Christ: Gentle and Lowly
When Jesus says that He is “gentle and lowly,” it means that saving sinners brings Him joy, that He sympathizes with our weakness, that He is gentle when we stray, and that He sees us through to the end.
Watch / ListenPortraits of Christ: The Lord Is My Shepherd
Jesus is our protector, provider, leader, friend, and uniter. And our response to Him should be to recognize, abide with, trust, and enjoy Him as the true Shepherd of our souls.
Watch / ListenPortraits of Christ: The Bread of Life
All of us have a longing for spiritual food. The physical world distracts us from our spiritual need, and all of our human efforts to meet that need is bankrupt. But Jesus is the Source of all life.
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Why the Religious Still Reject Jesus
God forsook His own Son so that those who trust in Him shall never be forsaken. Jesus was rejected by men, but through Him alone, we can be accepted by God.
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Palm Sunday: The King Has Come
Jesus doesn’t always meet our expectations, but His plan is always better. He is, indeed, the King of kings.
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A Better Healing (Or, I’ve Got Issues)
As we walk through life in this broken world, our greatest issue is not physical, mental, emotional, social, or political. Our greatest issue is spiritual. Our greatest need is to be forgiven of the sin and the debt that it incurs.
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The Cost of Not Following Jesus, Part 5
To not follow Jesus is to miss out on being part of the eternal, magnificent, unexplainable kingdom of God, where everything is different than we would expect. Everyone has a platform in His kingdom, so we must get away from the mentality that there are only certain types of important people.
Watch / ListenThe Cost of Not Following Jesus, Part 4
A cost of not following Jesus is that you will attempt to find truth, peace, and righteousness through your own self. The Sermon on the Mount reveals that none of those are possible outside of life in the kingdom of God.
Watch / ListenThe Cost of Not Following Jesus, Part 3
The kingdom of God is His universal sovereign rule over all time and all situations in all of history. A cost of not following Jesus is being outside of His kingdom and missing out on its eternal benefits.
Watch / ListenThe Cost of Not Following Jesus, Part 2
A cost of not following Jesus is being lost in and consumed by the darkness of this world. But the Light of the world has come so that those who believe in Him could pass from darkness to light, from death into life.
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