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The Eternal Son Becomes a Human

I find that I am beginning to look more and more like my dad.  In some ways this disturbs me, but it is the natural order of things.  Children become like their parents. Jesus however, has dual parentage. 

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The Emotional Jesus – Compassion

Jesus is an emotional person.  We’re all familiar with the anger he displayed when he chased the money changers out of the temple courtyard.  We remember he wept at Lazarus’ funeral.  Is it fair

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Jesus Is Angry With Me, This I Know

He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” (Mark 3:5) This was written about Jesus in the midst of a test the Pharisees

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Oh the Deep, Deep Joy of Jesus

Jesus makes two remarkable statements in front of his disciples during their time in the upper room right before he is arrested and crucified: “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that

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The Astonished Jesus

It is hard to define the emotion of surprise.  It is the feeling one gets when something unexpected happens, either of a happy sort or unhappy.  It catches one off-guard and one has to scramble a bit

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Jesus Friend of Sinners

Jesus! what a Friend for sinners! Jesus! Lover of my soul; Friends may fail me, foes assail me, He, my Savior, makes me whole. These words by Wilbur Chapman in 1910 (hear the music and sing along with

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Jesus’ Zeal for God

I can get fairly zealous about a University of Memphis basketball game.  Perhaps you get fairly zealous about someone you love or about a political platform you endorse or a ministry you support.  Zeal! 

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Jesus Full of the Holy Spirit

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert (Luke 4:1). One of the most important factors in Jesus’ earthly life was His dependence upon the Holy

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Jesus Filled with the Holy Spirit

Jesus was not only full of the Holy Spirit (characterized by the Spirit’s holy qualities because of countless hours spent in His presence and depending upon Him), he was also filled with the Spirit on

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Jesus the Teacher (Part 1)

His disciples said after a particularly hard message from Jesus, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” (John 6:68)  Two disciples who got a personal lesson from the resurrected

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Jesus the Teacher (Part 2)

I pride myself on being a teacher, but when I compare myself to Jesus I’m not even in the ballpark.  There are several reasons for this.  One, he is the Son of God.  Two, he has no internal sin issues

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Jesus the Discipler

It is fascinating to me that one of the very first things Jesus did upon beginning his public ministry was to draft disciples.  Jesus knew that his time on earth was short and that he was not going

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Jesus the Friend

Jesus told his disciples, “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant

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Jesus the Apologist

An apologist is someone active in  defending the truthfulness of any viewpoint.  Jesus chose at times to defend what he was teaching. When he was accused of casting out demons by the Devil (Matthew 12:22-29),

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Jesus the Fulfiller of Prophecy

The prophecies Jesus fulfilled can be broken down into (1) the prophecies about Jesus’ lineage, (2) those describing the attributes of God that Messiah would bear, (3) those about what Messiah would

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