Author: Joshua Mack Publisher: ISBN: 9781629950693 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
Compassion is the emotion most frequently attributed to Jesus. Its important! Using Jesus and Paul as examples, Joshua Mack shows us how to be compassionate without sacrificing truth.
Author: Robin M. Jensen Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674088808 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 281
Book Description
The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies—along with the forms of devotion—this central symbol of Christianity inspires. Jesus’s death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have been subjected to such an ignominious death? Wrestling with this paradox, they reimagined the cross as a triumphant expression of Christ’s sacrificial love and miraculous resurrection. Over time, the symbol’s transformation raised myriad doctrinal questions, particularly about the crucifix—the cross with the figure of Christ—and whether it should emphasize Jesus’s suffering or his glorification. How should Jesus’s body be depicted: alive or dead, naked or dressed? Should it be shown at all? Jensen’s wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the quest for the “true cross” in Jerusalem, and the symbol’s role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today.
Author: Arthur W. Pink Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1618981269 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
THE DEATH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST is a subject of never- failing interest to all who study prayerfully the scripture of truth. This is so, not only because the believer's all both for time and eternity depends upon it, but also, because of its transcendent uniqueness. Four words appear to sum up the salient features of this mystery of mysteries: the death of Christ was natural, unnatural, preternatural, and supernatural.The death of Christ was natural. By this we mean that it was a real death. It is because we are so familiar with the fact of it that the above statement appears simple and commonplace, yet, what we here touch upon is to the spiritual mind one of the main elements of wonderment. The one who was "taken, and by wicked hands" crucified and slain was none other than Jehovah's "Fellow". The blood that was shed on the accursed tree was divine - "The church of God which he purchased with his own blood"
Author: Hosanna Lee Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1524601969 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 199
Book Description
To get famous, and be at peace with oneself. Genesis 1,2,3, in the Book of Genesis; if you follow the Commandment, and know what God means. And with Jesus Christs body and blood on the wooden cross. Is almost a guarantee to be famous. I mean almost everybody wants to be famous. It was suppose to be a great fun book. About getting famous and Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif. and all that. I am a martial artist; but the book kinda got scary. But all in all, it turned out, I guess alright. But life, you have to admit is scary. What you need is a Holy Bible (copyright before1963 or older) and remember Commandment 1, which is 13. This book is dedicated to Bruce Lee and Jesus Christ. Both I love and cherish. Also to dedicated Our Lady of the Roses, Mary help of Mothers Shrine; Bayside, New York. I use to pray to Saint Michael and Saint Jude. Both of them showed me and instructed me to Commandment 1 which is 13. They would like point to the versus in my dreams. 20 years is a long time to finish a book; editing and writing. I hope this book will show you some insight, of your life and your well being. Thank You. To the Academy Awards, the Emmys, the Grammys, the Oscars, Bruce Lee. To Jesus Christs body and blood on the wooden cross. Jesus Christ, the blessing and the curse.
Author: James H. Cone Publisher: Orbis Books ISBN: 160833001X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 225
Book Description
A landmark in the conversation about race and religion in America. "They put him to death by hanging him on a tree." Acts 10:39 The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk. Both the cross and the lynching tree represent the worst in human beings and at the same time a thirst for life that refuses to let the worst determine our final meaning. While the lynching tree symbolized white power and "black death," the cross symbolizes divine power and "black life" God overcoming the power of sin and death. For African Americans, the image of Jesus, hung on a tree to die, powerfully grounded their faith that God was with them, even in the suffering of the lynching era. In a work that spans social history, theology, and cultural studies, Cone explores the message of the spirituals and the power of the blues; the passion and of Emmet Till and the engaged vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.; he invokes the spirits of Billie Holliday and Langston Hughes, Fannie Lou Hamer and Ida B. Well, and the witness of black artists, writers, preachers, and fighters for justice. And he remembers the victims, especially the 5,000 who perished during the lynching period. Through their witness he contemplates the greatest challenge of any Christian theology to explain how life can be made meaningful in the face of death and injustice.
Author: Fleming Rutledge Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 0802847323 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 695
Book Description
Few treatments of the death of Jesus Christ have made a point of accounting for the gruesome, degrading, public manner of his death by crucifixion, a mode of execution so loathsome that the ancient Romans never spoke of it in polite society. Rutledge probes all the various themes and motifs used by the New Testament evangelists and apostolic writers to explain the meaning of the cross of Christ. She shows how each of the biblical themes contributes to the whole, with the Christus Victor motif and the concept of substitution sharing pride of place along with Irenaeus's recapitulation model.
Author: R. C. Sproul Publisher: Baker Book House Company ISBN: 9780801063404 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
Analyzes what Jesus said about when he would return and the last days would arrive (as in Matthew 24:34). Defends the trustworthiness of Jesus' teachings.
Author: Tom Thoburn Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781541392106 Category : Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
You have problems in life. Everybody has problems. There is one initial source for our problems. The sin of Adam. There is also one cure for our problems. The cross of Jesus Christ. Reverse the Curse will show you how Jesus reversed the curse of Adam's sin by going to the cross. It reveals, in faith building detail, how the events of the crucifixion of Jesus reversed every element of Adam and Eve's sinful rebellion to the command of God. Reverse the Curse details Jesus becoming accursed for us so we can be set free from curses, even curses spoken by God. It also reveals the practical outcomes of this spiritual truth. If you can receive it, the message of Reverse the Curse will have a real effect upon you. Where this message has been preached and taught, it has opened eyes and built faith. It has resulted in a fresh release of the power of God to save, heal and deliver. It all comes through the power of the cross. After all, the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are saved it is the power of God. You will be truly blessed and inspired to dig into the Word of God and know His power in a greater way because of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Author: Nancy Guthrie Publisher: Crossway Books ISBN: 9781433573125 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross: Experiencing the Passion and Power of Easter From architecture to jewelry, the symbol of the cross is commonplace in our society. But how many of us truly appreciate the depth of meaning behind it? This collection of readings edited by Nancy Guthrie draws from the writings and sermons of twenty-five classic and contemporary theologians such as Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon, John Piper, and Joni Eareckson Tada, inviting us to focus on the wonder of Christ's sacrifice.
Author: Joshua Mack
Author: 
Author: Robin M. Jensen
Author: Arthur W. Pink
Author: Hosanna Lee
Author: James H. Cone
Author: Fleming Rutledge
Author: R. C. Sproul
Author: Tom Thoburn
Author: Nancy Guthrie