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Articles about jesus teachings (0-50 of 253)
- Did Jesus Die On A Cross Or A Stake?
By: John W. Samuels | - This quoted text from Vine's Dictionary of New Testament Words, written by a Protestant clergyman in 1940, provides a background of the Greek meanings of the word cross, as well as the historical origins of the cross.
Cross, crucify - Stauros
Definitions and history from Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words.
Noun
Stauros(Greek) denotes, primarily, an upright pale or stake. On such malefactors were nailed for execution. Both he n ...
Tags: jesus teachings, the cross, bible teachings, christianity
- Talmud Gives Unintended Proof Of Jesus Being The Messiah
By: William Nugent | - The Talmud of the Jews consists of an extensive collection of teachings of the ancient Jewish Rabbis. It consists of the Mishnah (the oral law) and the Gemara (commentary on the oral law).
The Talmud is not an inspired writing like the Bible but it does contain important eyewitness accounts of things that occurred during the first century AD and surrounding centuries.
The Talmud does not affirm that Jesus is the Messiah - far from it - but it does give many bits ...
Tags: Talmud, Messiah, rabbis, prophecy, sanhedrin, messianic, Yoma, atonement, Yom, Kippur, Jesus, Christ, proof
- A Complete Human Being
By: Shirlee Hall | - On the human level, the image of the creative power of the feminine has been distorted for thousands of years as the result of a patriarchal idealogy. Historic negativity toward women has created gender conflict, ignorance, suffering and lies, both reducing the importance of the feminine and demeaning the reality that a woman has the sameness of a man within her. This sameness is found in the qualities of character that need to be openly lived so everyone can develop into fully enlightened bein ...
Tags: destabilize boundaries, gender, walk with God, Jesus, example
- Who Would The Innocents Choose - Blago, Bush Or Obama
By: Rev Michael Bresciani | - Barack Obama will finish his term of office in only four years if he is re-elected he will have four more years. No child born here in the U.S. or abroad will reach voting age before he finishes his term of office. Those aborted will never so much as hear who is running for office. The pro-choice voters of America male or female can vote now and since the repeal of Bushs ban that constituency has been well played, prepped and pandered to for Obamas second term.
We ...
Tags: Blago, Bush, Obama, abortion, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, modernity, science, Rod Blagojevich, Illinois, enlightenment, liberal, slaughter, Jesus, Ni
- Online Resources For Living For And Through Jesus
By: Chris Robertson | - In today's busy - and primarily technological - society, you probably realize that living for and through Jesus now takes on a whole new meaning. Millions of people around the world spend the majority of their time online, which means there's less time to read (printed materials, that is), attend social gatherings such as church meetings and Bible classes, spend time with family, etc. But thankfully, there are many reliable online Christian resources to help you further your walk with Christ eve ...
Tags: jesus, god, bible, teaching, bible teaching, holy, love, salvation, hope, trust, psalms
- Jesus The Teacher Master Teacher Of All With Pure Love
By: Francis Hirak | - The whole career of Jesus the teacher, as King-priest, was to educate people in Gods law and will. As the royal Messiah, the foretold twig out of the stump of Jesse (Davids father), Jesus, master teacher of all mankind, must manifest the spirit of God in wisdom, counsel, mightiness, knowledge, along with the fear of God. Thereby, God-fearing people would find enjoyment by Him. (Isaiah 11:1-3) says: There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shal ...
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- The Greatest Habit Of Your Life
By: Dr. Mike Smalley | - People dont decide their future. They decide their habits... and their habits decide their future. I still remember the impact this Wisdom Key had on my life when my mentor shared it with me for the first time.
Successful men and women of the past and present always link their success to the positive daily habits they established. King Solomon was correct when he declared 4000 years ago, Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, ge ...
Tags: goal setting, habits, origins of Christianity, Jesus Christ, salvation, scripture, bible studies
- Lullaby To Eternal Hell?
By: Brian F Connors | - One fact that must be accepted by all is that our presence on this earth will come to an end. Various theories have been put forth regarding what awaits us after our journey through life has been completed. Many have been assuaged by noted authors or from the pulpit that all will be well for us in the next world if we simply obey tradition or follow the road that makes us feel good inside. Unfortunately, this mindset may lead to an eternally fatal mistake.
Hell on Trial: The C ...
Tags: Jesus, hell, Jesus Christ, heaven and hell, salvation, visions of hell, 23 minutes in hell, is hell real, what does hell look like
- An Agreement With God For Spiritual Growth
By: Richard D. Blackstone | - Unique spirituality information tells us that before we entered this physical universe we all made an agreement with God. This agreement is part of our spiritual growth and we can understand this agreement once again when we unite and become one with the source of our existence. It is a very individual journey that allows this spiritual growth to happen.
You might ask why we don't get this information from our religious institutions and that would be a very good question.
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Tags: spiritual, spiritual growth, spirituality, spirituality information, God, one with God, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, love, relativity, religions
- Biblical Principles Of Stewardship - Part 2
By: Zigfred Diaz | - Last time we talked about the first three principles of stewardship as taught by Jesus Christ in Mathew 25:14-27. We continue by discussing the last 4 principles. If you want to view the entire article, please visit my blog.
4.) PRINCIPLE OF ACCOUNTABILITY - Each servant was to give a strict account as to how he had handled the master's goods. (verse 19-25)
There is a saying that "Pay day may not come today, but it will surely come someday." The servants were certai ...
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- Basic Principles Of Biblical Stewardship - Part 1
By: Zigfred Diaz | - Jesus Christ often speaks in parables. Parables earthly stories with heavenly meaning. Often, Christ most important lessons are revealed in his parables.
Christ teaches us about the principle of stewardship through His parable of the talents as written in Mathew 25:14-27. The importance of Stewardship is emphasized by the fact that except for the Kingdom of God, Christ talked more about stewardship than any other topic.
The dictionary defines a steward as a person ...
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- Progress Or Apocalypse?
By: Aaron Taylor | - The can that I am about to pry open is a gigantic one, far greater than what will meet the eye at first. The implications deal directly with the belief system of millions of people in our nation and around the world, in particular as it relates to the Christian faith. Read carefully and think about it for a while before jumping to quick conclusions.
If we look at America today, it seems that we have two very different Christianities. One version of Christianity believes in societa ...
Tags: end times, apocalypse, kingdom now, liberals, end of the world, kingdom of God, Jesus, progress
- The Book Of John And Your Prosperity
By: Dan Brown | - Most scholars will agree the Gospel of John is a very important document on Christian theology - often times, more so than the synoptics, which are the works of Matthew, Mark, and Luke!
Why? Probably because the way John the Disciple portrays Jesus Christ! John discusses two critical particulars in His Gospel:
1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God!
2. The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us!
Tags: christian, prosperity, abundance, God, Jesus, faith, religion, Bible
- Essential Skills For Missional Leaders
By: Gary Rohrmayer | - The church is desperately in need for more missional leaders to rise up in it ranks. Here are four essential skills that help a leader align their churches with God's mission.
1. Empowering those around them.
Missional leaders are multiplying leaders. They understand that within the Great Commission they have all they need to get the job done. They have been empowered with spiritual authority, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." (Matthew 2 ...
Tags: leader, leaders, leadership, mission, missional, church, evangelism, Jesus, bible, God, Christian
- Beatniks, Hippies And The 1967 Summer Of Love!
By: William Nugent | - The age of reason gave way to the age of emotion. The optimism of the modern philosophers gave way to the pessimism of the postmodern philosophers. Modernism is the idea that ultimate truth and absolute morality can be discovered by rational thought.
(Absolute morals are morals that apply to all people across all cultures at all times.)
Modernists asserted that this newly discovered rational system of absolute morality would cure the world. This optimistic modern ...
Tags: beatnik, hippie, hippy, postmodernism, narcissism, 1967, Jesus, movement, mordernism, philosophy
- Born Again And What It Means
By: Terence Oles | - Become Born Again with this Reading
Notice, briefly, first, what that astonishing NEW Message was!
The pre-announcement, in Malachi's prophecy, says: "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek [the Messiah], shall suddenly come to his temple, even the Messenger of the covenant ... " (Mal. 3:1).
Now notice the beginning of the Messenger's proclamation of that Message.
It is recor ...
Tags: Bible lessons, teachings of the bible, born again, christian subjects, become born again
- The Personal Prayers Of Jesus
By: Arnold Ahlstrom | - The records of Jesus' prayers constitute a priceless document of one perfect being expressing himself to another.
Though Jesus must have been involved in prayer all the time, all we have in the Bible is six prayers of Jesus.
There are three kinds of prayers, and we know for sure that the mortal Jesus was involved personally in two of them. The three types of prayers were:
a. Personal prayers, offered by an individual in seclusion.
b. ...
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- Qur'an And The Five Pillars
By: Andrew Schwartz | - Qur'an is a sacred book of Muslims. The original version of this book is the one written in the Arabic language. For some deeds a Muslim can go to hell and the Qur'an contains the description of such actions. There are not only sins in the book, but also rewards. For an obedient Muslim there is no greater reward than acceptance by God or Ridwan. Islam is a rather young religion, but Muslims believe that it is one of the oldest and that it contains teachings of Jesus and prophets.
Tags: hell, Quran, Ridwan, Jesus, Pillars, Shariah, prayer, charity, pilgrimage, Ramadan.
- Is Your Tongue Controlled?
By: akw | - People differ from one another in almost every possible respect. Where speaking is concerned, some have a relatively tight tongue, in the sense that they do not easily speak out against something in a critical or wounding way when a thing is done or said to them. Other have a loose tongue in the sense that they are inclined to lash out with it at the least provocation. Others may occupy any position along the continuum.
At The Extremes
In both these extreme cases, and fo ...
Tags: christian speaking, controlling the tongue, loose tongues, loose speaking, sin and the tongue, controlling speach, Jesus' teachings.
- Restoration Of The Church
By: Jerry Richard Boone | - Back-to-the-Bible Movement
During the later part of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, a number of church congregations decided that creeds, regardless of whoever wrote them and whatever form they take, are divisive and not in accord with the teachings of the New Testament. They sought to end their denominational ties and become mere Christians with no separating labels.
Why should we base the church exclusively on the New Testament? Jesus chose fro ...
Tags: Jesus, New Testament Christianity, church Restoration, churches of Christ, back to the Bible, Barton W. Stone, Thomas Campbell, Alexander Campbell, J
- Glimpses Of Esoteric Christianity Part 2
By: Luxamore | - He who attunes with the harmony of the Cosmos, with Tao, with the Divine I AM, feeds and expands the flame--like the Colombes tending the sacred fire in Vesta's temple--which results in a greater manifestation of God, the Shekinah, in man's expression in the world of Malkuth--Assiah, God's footstool. Glorified by the divinity of his God-presence, man manifests his full divine potential with the fruits of the Tree of Life in full development with the aspects of will/power, love/wisdom, intelligen ...
Tags: jesus, christ, esoteric, Essenes, doctines, gnosis, gnostic, secrets, mysteries, reincarnation, mind
- Resurrection Or Deception?
By: Jerry Richard Boone | - The story of Jesus' resurrection is a compelling one, but is it true? How can we in the twenty-first century account for this Gospel story?
Possible Explanations:
Mass Hallucinations
Could it have been a mass hallucination? That's not a likely answer. Too many people saw the resurrected Jesus over too long a period of time to dismiss it as a mass hallucination. Besides, hallucinations don't have physical bodies to touch, and they don't eat and ...
Tags: Jesus, resurrection, mass hallucinations, swoon theory, stole the body, apostles, Christian martyrs: Stephen, James, Peter, Paul
- Jesus: Legendary Hero Or Real Man?
By: Jerry Richard Boone | - Surely, it's the most extraordinary story ever told. Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, came to earth and sacrificed himself so that we mortals might have eternal life. Yes, an extraordinary story, but is it fact? or fiction? One compelling bit of evidence strongly suggests it is indeed a fact. Even so, you will never hear it mentioned in a church!
Say you were examining an old manuscript and wanted to determine whether the story was fact or fiction, what should you look for? Scho ...
Tags: Jesus, four Gospels, apostles, John the Baptist, Parable of the Shrewd Manager, Jesus' prophecies, Christianity, the Messiah, Moses, Peter
- Three Things Passover And Easter Have In Common
By: Nina Amir | - Despite the fact that Easter and Passover are celebrated within days or weeks of each other, most Jews and Christians don't realize the link between their respective spring holiday observances. The reason for this lies simply in the fact that many Jews and Christians alike know little of the origins of the other faith's holidays, rituals or beliefs.
Although Christianity arose our of Judaism, many Christians do not recognize this. Christians do not talk about Jesus as a Jew, and ...
Tags: Easter, Passover, seder, Jesus, christianity, Judaism, Egypt, slavery, crucifixtion, ascension, resurrection
- The Gospels As Literature: Fiction? Or Non-fiction?
By: Jerry Richard Boone | - The Gospels are, among other things, a certain type of literature. The question is: What type? Do they display the tell-tale characteristics of fiction, or do they have more of the nitty gritty feel of reality?
Gospel of John
The Gospel of John has a number of personal eyewitness touches such as recalling the fragrance of Mary's pure nard perfume which she poured on Jesus' feet in the house at Bethany. And then there is the episode of Jesus writing in the dust with ...
Tags: Gospels as literature, Gospel of John, Gospel of Luke, date of Jesus' birth, John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Narrative
- Death And Rights In Christianity
By: Kate Gardens | - Either the gate to life with God or to eternal separation from Him. The Christians believe that through the sacrifice that Jesus Christ termed the Son of God, we can be saved. If we accept Jesus Christ as our savior and try to live without sin, then when we pass on we are to live in Heaven with God for all of Eternity as a reward for having been a good child of God. Since we are still always guilty of sin, then we must strive to ask God's Forgiveness and continue to try to achieve a sinless st ...
Tags: christianity, religion, god, death, rights, jesus
- How Reliable Are The Gospels?
By: Jerry Richard Boone | - Late-date-for-the-Gospel Theory
Jesus was a historical figure. Modern historians and scholars agree. That tells us something, but not a whole lot. Davy Crockett was a real man too. But books, movies, and television shows turned the real man into a legend. How about the story of Jesus? Did the Gospel writers take the real man, Jesus of Nazareth, and embellish him with such things as a virgin birth, miracles, sinless life, voluntary martyr's death, resurrection, and ascension int ...
Tags: Jesus Christ, Late-date-for-the-Gospel Theory, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, New Testament, Papias, Irenaeus, Oral Tradition, Carsten Peter Thiede, Magda
- Was Jesus A Historical Figure?
By: Jerry Richard Boone | - Eyewitnesses of Jesus
What about Jesus? Was he an authentic historical figure? Eyewitnesses Matthew, John, Peter, Paul, James , and Jude say he was. These men claim they knew Jesus. They weren't just casual acquaintances either. Peter, John, and Matthew lived with him for several years, right up to the day he died.
Day in, day out, they traveled with him; talked with him; ate with him; heard his teachings; saw his miracles; and at least in the case of John, saw his ...
Tags: Eyewitnesses of Jesus, Matthew, John, Peter, Paul, James, Jude, Polycarp, Eusebius, Irenaeus, Ignatius, Origen, Flavius Josephus, Cornelius Tacitus,
- Introduction To Prosperity - We Have All We Need To Succeed
By: Rob Marshall | - With all the discussion, and disagreement, about wealth within the church, we need to take a look at what the Bible tells us. In this first look at the parable of the talents, we'll learn about the source of everything in our lives, including money.
The parable of the talents begins with: "For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to anothe ...
Tags: parable, talents, jesus, money, prosperity, bible, christian, faithfulness
- Introduction To Prosperity - Be Faithful With Money
By: Rob Marshall | - It's not a new problem, and it probably started almost immediately. How did Peter, the struggling fisherman, feel about Matthew the wealthy tax collector? Did the disciples have debates about money on top of their usual arguments about who would be the greatest?
Probably since before the beginning of the Christian church, there have been discussions about prosperity. The questions of whether or not a person can be rich and spiritual have probably been raging for millennia, mayb ...
Tags: prosperity, money, faithful, jesus, christian, mammon
- Christian Business Success
By: Sam Crowley | - Everything you need to succeed you learned in Sunday School. Christians should not be poor. The two words are not synonymous. Poverty is negative; believing in God is the most positive of reality. These two emotions cannot exist in the same mind. God promises prosperity to those who follow His guidelines.
Some Christians may have entered into a vow of poverty. But to perpetuate poverty mindset for any other reason is to engage in the worst form of self-deprivation. Helping o ...
Tags: Christian, God, Jesus, Christ, religion
- If God's Two Witnesses Came Would The Church Let Them Through The Doors?
By: Linda Dipman | - Are we living in the end times? Is Armageddon upon us? If God's two witnesses came proclaiming the message that we were in the final seven years of our present day world, would anyone listen?
Are Christians being given the full message of the Gospel? Or are the Clergy choosing to keep some information to itself? Is the church in a huge cover up because they are so involved with building bigger churches and directing more people to their television ministries? Has money become th ...
Tags: two witnesses, Armageddon, endtime, Psychology, family, church, faith, spiritual, book, story, God, Jesus, mail,
- Our Christian Gift Is About Relationship, Not Ritual
By: Steven Coffman | - Many Christians today and throughout our history, have missed the true point in their beliefs and practices with what they observe and do in their obligations to our Father in heaven. What I mean by this is, that many of us emphasize on the ritual aspects in the bible as the path that can be taken to personally reach heaven by. Many of us emphasize on many ways of interpretation on the bible's written word that we miss the most important two wishes, (commandments) that our Father wants us to do ...
Tags: Christian Gift, Relationship, Ritual, Christianity, Jesus, God, Worship
- Focusing On Jesus - Through The Lure Of Money
By: Thomas Cloud, Jr | - While I was at the beach I began to read a book called God and Your Stuff by Wesley K. Willmer. Have you ever read a book, like the Bible, and felt like it literally had boxing gloves that were jumping out of the pages just smacking you right in the face? Well this is how I felt since I've read midway through this challenging book by Mr. Willmer. I wanted to share with you a few quotes from his book and see what you think about them.
We live in a culture that worships at the shri ...
Tags: God, Money, Power, Status, Jesus, Greed, Idols, Religion
- Good Friday And Easter
By: cdmohatta | - Jesus died on the cross. Jesus was nailed on the cross. Yes, He was nailed. How many of you have taken injection shots? Do you remember the feeling of pain that comes with a very thin needle? That also is taken away within few seconds. Now imagine getting hit with a nail and the nail crossing your palm, a thick nail and you are left to bleed. Now imagine the pain.
Pain, intense pain, yes, death by intense pain and Jesus died with that. By laws of science, I don't know how much of ...
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