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Continue reading →: Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: ‘I am the life’Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night…(John 3:1) I love this scene from the Bible. Nicodemus seeks Jesus out to ask him questions—Is he truly from God? Could he really be the Messiah? “You…
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Continue reading →: Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: “I am he” (the Messiah)The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ)“is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.” John 4: 25-26 (NIV) “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”…
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Continue reading →: Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: the Giver of Living Water“If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water…Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed,…
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Continue reading →: Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: ‘Whoever is not with me is against me’“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.” Luke 11:23 (NIV) “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.” Matthew 10: 32-33 (NIV) There…
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Continue reading →: Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: Lord of the SabbathThen he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” Mark 2:23-28 (NIV) The Old Testment laws for the Jews included a required day of rest—just as God rested from his work of creation of the…
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Continue reading →: Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: He Knows and Reveals the Father“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22 (NIV) What a bold claim to say he alone knows the…
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Continue reading →: Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: He Came to Call and Forgive SinnersWhile Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need…
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Continue reading →: Consider the Claims of Christ this Christmas: “The Son of Man”God’s voice was heard coming from heaven at Jesus’ baptism, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:17) God, himself, declared Jesus his Son—the Son of God. But throughout the New Testament Jesus refers to himself as the Son of Man—human! Jesus was God incarnate—in flesh. Paul states Jesus, being…
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Continue reading →: Consider the Claims of Christ this ChristmasFor the next few weeks leading up to Christmas, I will consider the claims Jesus made about himself. Before I became a follower of Jesus Christ, I knew very little about him—despite the fact I grew up in America and thought myself a Christian. The Bible presents four accounts of…
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Continue reading →: I Heard the Voice of Jesus SayA hymn by Horatius Bonar (1808-1899) I heard the voice of Jesus say, ‘Come unto me and rest; Lay down, thou weary one, lay down thy head upon my breast.’ I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found him in a resting place, and…
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