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Jesus
Like his final words “It is finished,” Jesus’ life was simple and definitive. He was born among the animals and a carpenter by trade. Yet he was extraordinary. By age 12 he engaged the Pharisees in matters of religious doctrine. He worked miracles as he traveled with his disciples, living a sinless life, fully God and fully man, until he entered Jerusalem to a king’s welcome, only to be beaten, crucified, and then resurrected days later. Christ’s life and works are chronicled from various perspectives in the four canonical gospels. While these perspectives, as well as the life and works of Jesus, are the focus of continued scholarship and debate, the complex theology renders down to a simple, personal offer that evangelicals have embraced: “follow me.”
Why We Need Jesus
Reason and morality cannot show us a good and gracious God. For that, we need the Incarnation.
December 2, 2011
Cover Story: The Jesus We'll Never Know
Why scholarly attempts to discover the 'real' Jesus have failed. And why that's a good thing.
April 9, 2010
More on Jesus
A Wake-up Call for Blasé Believers
Christians, says Richard Stearns, have everything they need to finish Jesus' mission—except the willpower.
May 14, 2013
Up and Away: Why It Is Good that Christ Departed
Exploring the reason for Christ's ascension into heaven.
May 9, 2013
God Behind the Veil
His ways are hidden from ordinary eyes, but not from the eyes of faith.
April 1, 2013
You're Probably More Like Judas Than You Think
We all want a Messiah whose plans mirror our own. But a true disciple surrenders to the Master's will.
March 26, 2013
Worship Christ the Newborn King
This, this is Christ the King. It's not just imagery and metaphor.
December 21, 2012
On the Death—and Life—of Innocent Children
The 20 slain in Connecticut are not alone, nor without hope.
December 14, 2012
'Jesus Said to Them, "My Wife..."'
Manuscript fragment apparently from the 300s suggests debate over whether Jesus was married.
September 19, 2012
Charles Colson & Timothy George: Churchless Jesus
A viral video is a symptom of our spiritual malaise, but not the cure.
June 7, 2012
Getting to the Crux of Calvary
Each atonement theory highlights a truth about the Cross—but none more so than Christ's substitutionary death.
June 4, 2012
Vicarious Humanity: By His Birth We Are Healed
Our redemption, it turns out, began long before Calvary.
April 9, 2012
Jesus Disappoints Everyone
Our Savior has come, but we're often blind to his purposes.
April 5, 2012
Proof of a Good God: 'Crucified Under Pontius Pilate'
Why this 'factoid' from the Nicene Creed is key to ending our nightmares about God.
April 5, 2012
He's Calling For Elijah! Why We Still Mishear Jesus
"My God, My God, why have you forsaken me" was a cry of vindication, not despair.
April 4, 2012
Jesus Through Jewish Eyes 
Why Jewish New Testament professor Amy-Jill Levine thinks Jews should know more about Jesus, and Christians more about first-century Judaism.
April 1, 2012
Jesus in 'The Hunger Games'
In the face of persistent and pervasive darkness, hope shines through the cracks.
March 22, 2012
A Purpose-Driven Cosmos: Why Jesus Doesn't Promise Us an 'Afterlife'
Jesus Christ embodies the meaning of life, the goal of history, and the pattern of the future.
February 27, 2012
Jesus and the Goodness of Everything Human
Why it matters that God became the human prototype.
January 27, 2012
The Business of Religion vs. Jesus
Sorry, but you can't reconstruct a stripped down, organic, anti-corporate version of what you think Jesus should be.
January 20, 2012
The Christmas Epistles: A Most Human Understanding of Godliness
Incarnational grace in the Pastoral Epistles.
December 22, 2011
Why We Need Jesus
Reason and morality cannot show us a good and gracious God. For that, we need the Incarnation.
December 2, 2011
Mark Noll on the Foundation of the Evangelical Mind
Christian scholarship must be rooted in the person and work of Christ, says the Notre Dame historian.
August 26, 2011
What Jesus Never Said
He taught us not to judge others—or ourselves. A review of '10 Things Jesus Never Said.'
August 11, 2011
Jesus: Democratic King
Our most cherished democratic values are grounded in Jesus' sovereign authority.
July 29, 2011
Mercifully Forsaken
There is a reason Good Friday is called good, and why we can be thankful when God forsakes us.
April 21, 2011
The Problem with Christus Victor
An increasingly popular view of the atonement forces the question: What are we saved from?
April 7, 2011
Rob Bell's Bridge Too Far
The controversial pastor raises crucial questions, but offers answers that may sabotage his goals.
March 14, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI Points Fingers on Who Killed Jesus
Jews bear no collective guilt for crucifixion, he says.
March 2, 2011
The Argument for Girl-Boy Wrestling
Joel Northrup cited his Christian faith for refusing to wrestle Cassy Herkelman in last week's Iowa state championship. I say his Christian faith should have taken him to the mat.
February 22, 2011
The Son and the Crescent
Bible translations that avoid the phrase "Son of God" are bearing dramatic fruit among Muslims. But that translation has some missionaries and scholars dismayed.
February 4, 2011
Christ Is Enough
Why this simple reminder is necessary right now. A review of Phillip Cary's 'Good News for Anxious Christians.'
December 28, 2010
Sculpture of Jesus the Homeless rejected by two prominent churches
It takes a moment to see that the slight figure shrouded by a blanket, hauntingly similar to the real homeless who lie on grates and in doorways, is Jesus. It’s the gaping wounds in the feet that reveal the subject, whose face is draped and barely visible, as Jesus the Homeless. (Toronto Star)
Painting of Jesus coming down in Jackson school
Sallman "Head of Christ" had hung in school hallways in Jackson since 1947. But the district voluntarily ordered its removal out of fear of legal fees if it lost a lawsuit brought by two parents and a student (The Columbus Dispatch)
How to Save a Dying Language
Geoffrey Khan is racing to document Aramaic, the language of Jesus, before its native speakers vanish. (Smithsonian Magazine)
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