Tag: jesus

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.—Matthew 10:29-31, NIV (Jesus speaking) When I get a haircut, I hear...

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.—Hebrews 13:8, NIV I have isolated this rather remarkable statement in Hebrews in order to examine its ramifications. ‘Jesus’ is the same thing as ‘Christ.’ Within the New Testament, the word ‘Christ’ is the Greek translation of the Hebrew wor...

But Jonah was greatly displeased and became angry. He prayed to the LORD, “O LORD, is this not what I said when I was still at home? That is why I was so quick to flee to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from send...

After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, Jesus’ brothers said to him, “You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you...