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Dr. James Spencer, faith leader and president of the D. L. Moody Center in Massachusetts, reflects on Mark 10:13-16, the story of "The Little Children and Jesus" — and what wealth truly means.
Jesus apparently knew many, some, all of these books. The synagogue service on the Sabbath would consist of communal group study of various collections from these books.
The story of the woman with a bleeding ailment encountering Jesus is a lesson to us all. In this gospel narrative, we see Jesus as the one who brings healing in its fullness, not just to our ...
Jesus is on his way one day, and is asked to come heal the young daughter, age 12, of a prominent synagogue official. ... Everyone will recognize that Jesus teaches in parables. But, ...
Jesus becomes the rebel who, unlike every other Jew, practices social justice. He is the only one to speak with women; he is the only one who teaches nonviolent responses to oppression; he is the only ...
He was with Jesus, loving him, all the time — at home, in the workshop, in the synagogue, on the road. He teaches us to live in the presence of God at all times, and he shows us how to pray when ...
Similar events announcing the film were held in South Korea and Uganda. The original “Jesus” film was released in 1979 by an evangelical Christian organization now known as Cru.
Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000-year-old synagogue on the shores of the Sea of Galilee—a freshwater lake in northern Israel. The synagogue was discovered at the site of an ancient ...
Jesus’ Blackness, like his Jewishness, names his membership in a people. To deny it, in our context, would be to risk the heresy of Docetism, which teaches that Jesus merely appeared to be in the ...
Notice, too, that Jesus rebukes every temptation by having recourse to Scripture. Draw strength from what God’s teaches and slay each temptation by the “sword of the Spirit,” which is the ...