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- Jesus profoundly changed people’s understanding of love and forgiveness, emphasizing unconditional love (agape) for all, including enemies, and teaching that forgiveness should be offered freely and repeatedly. This radical ethic continues to inspire social justice movements and conflict resolution efforts today.
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May 30, 2024 · Given all the reasons He came, the Bible gives us many instances where Jesus displayed His power and authority. Jesus’ works of power always connected with His mission — to testify about who He is and about His work (Luke 7:18-23; John 10:25; John 21:24-25).
- What Kind of Authority Does Jesus Show in Matthew’s Gospel?
Jesus demonstrated his authority in many ways: over the...
- What Kind of Authority Does Jesus Show in Matthew’s Gospel?
Oct 24, 2024 · What did the early Church Fathers say about Jesus’ influence on the world? The Church Fathers saw in Jesus the fulfillment of humanity’s deepest longings – for meaning, for reconciliation with the Divine, for a way to transcend our mortal limitations.
- Jesus Heals Loneliness. Stories of Jesus’ miraculous healing are recorded 22 times in the Synoptic Gospels. A majority of these miracles show Jesus ministering to the marginalized.
- Jesus Heals the Sickness of Sin. Jesus’ primary passion is to restore us in right relationship with God. When he heals the paralyzed man in Luke 4:18, he completes his message by assuring him, "...
- Jesus Heals Physical Ailments. It’s tempting to read about Jesus healing Jairus’ daughter, renewing a man’s withered hand, giving the blind sight, or healing Malchus’ ear after it had been cut off, and believe that we can direct Jesus’ power to heal our physical ailments, too.
- Jesus Heals Emotional Wounds.
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The essence of Jesus’ mission was to save the individual life of every person who chooses to put his or her trust in him. He didn’t just point the way to a set of ideals or moral principles as many other teachers did. Rather, he promised when we were “born again by his Spirit” he would come tolive inside of us, guiding and empowering us to live mea...
No one altered the role of women in society more than Christ. Prior to New Testament times, women labored in harsh, subservient roles, and were often nothing more than slaves to men and their families. Loren Cunningham and David Hamilton point out in their liberating book Why Not Women? that the Greek philosopher Cicero likened women to “slaves, do...
The application of Jesus’ teachings also gave permanent strength and completeness to the world’s most important institution—the family. Wives were not slaves, husbands weren’t to be tyrants, and children possessed significance. The Christian truths of submission, equal worth, partnership, equality, and self-sacrificing love gave harmony and protect...
Though the Church has not always properly applied the teachings of Christ, it is also true that no group of people have made a more positive impact on the history of the world than the Christian Church. The Church—the “called out ones” (Greek = ekklesia)—transformed the Roman Empire, rescued “learning” from the destruction of the Middle Ages, raise...
One of the things we both criticize and take for granted in the 21st century is the positive role of human governments that were shaped by Christianity. Prior to the Christian faith being applied to civil government, people lived in perpetual fear of massacres and tyrants. Your town could be here one day and be burned to the ground the next. You co...
Did you know that we would have lost much of the great literature of Greece and Rome (and other civilizations of the ancient world) if it weren’t for the Christian monks who preserved that knowledge through finding, preserving, and copying ancient writings during the Middle Ages? Are you aware that the first universities in Paris and London were st...
Even the development of human work, labor and industry, finds its zenith in the application of Christian truths. For most of history, and still in some parts of the world, there were only a few wealthy tyrants and then teeming masses of poor people. For thousands of years there was no middle class and no freedom for individual initiative. During th...
Rodney Stark in his marvelous book For the Glory of Godrightly points out that modern science was born of the Christian faith and not in opposition to it. It was Christian civilization that proposed that “design points to a Designer” and that man was placed on the earth to discover God’s secrets in nature and use those discoveries to benefit people...
Francis Shaeffer pointed out in his landmark book How Should We Then Live? that the coming of Christ greatly influenced the arts, and that prior to Christ’s birth music was played in minor chords, showing the incompleteness and lack of harmony in life. After Christ’s death and resurrection brought wholeness to individuals and nations, people began ...
Jesus lived a life of complete faith in the Father and imparted that faith to his followers. If Abraham is the father of faith in the ancient world, then Jesus is the engine of faith in the modern one. Faith in him has led his followers through the centuries to care for the poor; minister to the sick; start hospitals and schools; share the Good New...
Jan 14, 2024 · The Miracle Shows Jesus’ Authority Over Creation. The calming of the storm demonstrated Jesus’ supreme authority over the forces of nature. The winds, waves, and sea instantly obeyed his spoken word. As Creator of the universe, Jesus has absolute power over the elements of creation.
Feb 22, 2024 · The authority passed on to the apostles by Jesus encompassed the remarkable power to heal the sick and cast out demons. This extraordinary ability was not merely a display of miraculous prowess but held profound significance in the context of spiritual healing and liberation.
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May 3, 2023 · Jesus demonstrated his authority in many ways: over the Scripture; in forgiving sin; in healing and casting out demons; and over the creation. We might be led to believe that the exercise of authority is all about the use of power. But, in the kingdom Jesus is establishing, there is a twist.
