The imagery of the 23rd Psalm and Jesus’s teaching in John 10 have captured the imagination of Christians for centuries. I’ll be talking about four pictures of Jesus the Good Shepherd. Each captures different aspects of our relationship to Jesus and each calls for a different emotional response.
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God Glorifies His Christ
All Peter had was the name of the long expected Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, but there was great power in the name of Jesus, and with that name a man was healed.
Continue readingThe Chain of Faith
We live in a world where a healthy dose of skepticism is a good thing. People lie to us all the time. Given that, I am glad to know that, at first, Thomas doubted that Jesus of Nazareth had truly been raised.
Continue readingEaster Grief, Easter Fear
All our hymns speak of the joy of Easter, but the women who came to Jesus tomb that first Easter were consumed by grief that was soon overshadowed by great fear. Why are we so happy?
Continue readingSon of Man, Son of God
The third chapter of John records a conversation between Jesus and a man named Nicodemus who was one of the most respected theologians of his time. Jesus tells Nicodemus that unless he is reborn from above by water and the Spirit, he can’t enter the kingdom of God. In the part of their discussion we read a few moments ago, Jesus mentions Moses and a serpent on a Pole, a Son of Man and a Son of God, people living in light or darkness, doing evil or truth, and receiving condemnation or eternal life. The things he mentions are all drawn from the Old Testament and all the passages would have been familiar to Nicodemus, but he had not fully understood them. Most Christians know John 3:16 by heart, but many of the things Jesus talks about are still a bit of a mystery to them.
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