Jesus

By Landon Coleman. Pastor, Immanuel. As we come to the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, I pray that you know the good news of Jesus Christ.

If, by the grace of God and the work of the Holy Spirit, you will repent of your sin and believe the good news, you will be saved. God will forgive you of all your sins, declare you righteous, adopt you into his family as a child, fill you with the Holy Spirit, and give you eternal life. Repent of your sin and believe the good news. The call of Jesus on your life is remarkably simple. He is one in essence, and he is three in person. This good news is rooted in the truth about the one true God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth.

The pontiff delivered his Christmas Eve homily in Rome on Saturday ... and the overarching theme was decrying what he sees as a power-hungry society that's far ...

"This Christmas, too, as in the case of Jesus, a world ravenous for money, power and pleasure does not make room for the little ones, for the so many unborn, poor and forgotten children. it certainly sounds like he might've been taking aim at the many billionaires in the world -- especially the high-profile ones. The Pope said this to a group of about 7,000 worshippers who flocked to attend the mass that Francis presided over. PF said, "While animals feed in their stalls, men and women in our world, in their hunger for wealth and power, consume even their neighbors, their brothers and sisters. and the overarching theme was decrying what he sees as a power-hungry society that's far too focused on consumerism and collecting wealth ... citing Jesus as the exact opposite of that, downright destitute.

Pope Francis on Christmas eve recalled Jesus saying he was born poor and urged those “hungry” for wealth and power to feed the untrodden and poor.

As always, the principal victims of this human greed are the weak and the vulnerable.” Pope Francis on Christmas eve recalled Jesus by saying he was also born poor and urged those “hungry” for wealth and power to feed the downtrodden and poor. “Jesus was born poor, lived poor and died poor.

Christmas is a time to celebrate Jesus Christ, and one of the ways we can do this is to reflect on the wonders of Jesus Christ and thank God for His coming ...

The resurrection of Jesus Christ as recorded in Matthew 28:1-8 was not without the miraculous. As we celebrate Him, let us ask God to show us the wonders of Jesus Christ; the wonders that make him the true God that he is. Christmas is a time to celebrate Jesus Christ, and one of the ways we can do this is to reflect on the wonders of Jesus Christ and thank God for His coming to save man from sins. During the reign of Ahaz, two kings — Rezin, King of Syria and Pekah, King of Israel — formed an alliance to attack Jerusalem. “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel (Isa.7.14 NKJV). Therefore, this Christmas Day, thank God for Jesus and also celebrate the wonders of His life.

He rebuked those “ravenous” for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children. Recalling Jesus' birth in a stable, Pope Francis ...

When the Mass ended, the pope, pushed in a wheelchair by an aide, moved down the basilica with a life-sized statue of Baby Jesus on his lap and flanked by several children carrying bouquets. Two years ago, the start of Christmas Eve Mass in St. “I think above all of the children devoured by war, poverty and injustice.” “He did not so much talk about poverty as live it, to the very end, for our sake.” “While animals feed in their stalls, men and women in our world, in their hunger for wealth and power, consume even their neighbors, their brothers and sisters,” the pontiff lamented. In the splendor of St.

I've been celebrating Christmas for the past 50 years as a massive, soul-elevating birthday party. I came to love Christmas music, and I've listened to it ...

I came to love Christmas music, and I’ve listened to it and sung it loudly in churches of many denominations on Christmas Eve, blessedly sober and unencumbered by teenage crushes. The image of Jesus as a guru may not sit well with clerics for whom Christ can only be the one true messiah and the hinge of human history. This was a Jesus I could live with: exalted, but without the grandiose triumphalism that insists he is the one and only savior of humankind and relegates non-believers to either irrelevance or damnation. The main character was a master teacher, a guru who not only prodded his disciples to better behavior but pointed to the same kind of spiritual experience the yogis described. I read the sacred texts of Hinduism and Buddhism as well as modern interpreters such as Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, and Joseph Campbell. Bobby, whose last name was very Irish, told me the girl attended his church and invited me to join his family for dinner and services on Christmas Eve.

The beautiful message of Christmas for everyone is that Jesus Christ came to offer us forgiveness and hope. Jesus Christ, God's son, has radically changed ...

Former Manchester City defender, Joleon Lescott, has said that every team barring Arsenal, who were on a roll, would have been happy to see the season ...

He added: “It’s hard to tell how much of an impact the mid-season tournament will have on the returning World Cup stars. But they will obviously have to negotiate the first few months without Gabriel Jesus, their main man up front. He was huge to their improvement this season and it’s the same old question of whether the players on the bench can match the levels he was setting.

This is Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's depiction of the adoration of the shepherds on the night of the birth of Jesus Christ.

“Jesus was not born in a palace or with the religious leaders,” he said. It shows that he is the God for everybody.” “Then there was the humble birth in a manger. “We gave and received gifts, but we were also told the Christmas story about Jesus,” he said. “My parents and grandparents were very generous people,” he said. “Our country has made it about everything except what it’s supposed to be about,” said the Rev.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has rebuked those that are extremely hungry for wealth and power to the detriment of others while ...

In the splendour of St. “How many wars have we seen? Recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable, Pope Francis rebuked those “ravenous” for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children, in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty and greedy consumerism, Associated Press reports from the Vatican City.

In a world filled with political, cultural, racial, and religious divisions among others, none will ever be greater than the divide that once existed ...

Some will doubt and others will outright disrespect our efforts. Do they need it? Yet, over 2,000 years ago, our Holy God renewed his desperate pursuit of his hellbent creation. Do they deserve it? Out of the warmth of heavenly glory into the earthly chill of man’s story, he came. Jesus came out of the warmth of heavenly glory and into the earthly chill of man’s story

According to this man of God, he could not see the difference between the two Jesuses, they were exactly the same. In this open vision, the man of God said ...

The Jesus of the Bible promotes the giving to the poor; the clothing of the naked and the housing of the homeless (Matthew 25:36). If you see the traces of the other Jesus in your church and you continue to defend and promote your church, its your choice. The Jesus of the Bible wants the church to be the light of the world in word and in deed (Matthew 5:14). The other Jesus instructs pastors to divorce their wives and marry the head of the choir. Jesus told this man of God to stay with the word, any doctrine the Jesus of the Bible or the Apostles didn’t teach or practice, regardless of the result, is from the other “Jesus”. The other Jesus produces pastors that are occultic and sexually immoral.

In November, right-wing media was abuzz that a University of Cambridge sermon claimed 'Jesus was trans'. The outcry kicked off after a fellow junior ...

Jesus was unmarried and child-free, which is hugely redefining the gender norms of what masculinity would have been in his day.” This is a moment where he pulled his closest friends aside and revealed something about himself that he hadn’t revealed before. He continues: “We also know Jesus in his historical life was homeless, spent time as a refugee on the run. He said there’s a tradition that Jesus “gives life” similar to motherhood and childbirth – referencing when he raised “Lazarus from the tomb” and when he resurrected himself. “We don’t depict the resurrected Christ healed of his wounds, and Christian art picks up on this idea which I think speaks to issues around ability and disability.” “Sounds a lot like childbirth.”

Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church, has urged people across the world to imitate the Christian Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and desist from being ...

Peter’s Basilica Mass attended by about 7,000 faithful, including tourists and pilgrims, who flocked to the church on a warm evening and took their place behind rows of white-robed pontiffs. “How many wars have we seen? The Catholic cleric, recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable, rebuked those “ravenous” for wealth and power at the expense of the vulnerable, including children, in a Christmas Eve homily decrying war, poverty and greedy consumerism, Associated Press reports from the Vatican City.

Unto us a vampire is born, queen of all creation... wait, what?

‘Tis the season, everyone, make sure you left out cookies for Santa and some garlic to protect you from creatures of the night. But because she was born a vampire, complete with little fangs, her parents were horrified that such a wicked being could be born alongside the son of God. A lot of nonsense later as Lupin’s pals Goemon, Jigen, and Fujiko all attempt to save their now-vampiric friend leads us to the highlight of the whole thing: Camilla revealing her backstory. [important religious figures](https://gizmodo.com/jesus-christ-makes-his-divine-debut-on-american-gods-by-1795755399) on the planet, the child of the Virgin Mary. The 34th episode of Lupin III: Part 2, the crazy case of Camilla begins when archaeologists uncover a 2000 year old coffin housing a mysteriously-still-living-woman, clutching an ancient statue of the Virgin Mary. [Lupin III](https://gizmodo.com/lupin-iii-the-first-is-a-gorgeous-adventure-about-find-1845394084), called “Lupin Has Become a Vampire” in Japan, but incredibly localized as “But Your Brother Was Such a Nice Guy” in English.

I say this all both seriously and lightly. (This is the gentle humor with which I and other Jews in America speak of going to eat Chinese food on Christmas eve.

I even dare to say I think it is the way of the future: both the movement away from money and the abolition, the transcendence, of the family unit. But his emphasis on action is simultaneously remarkable for its difference to the way institutions have since focused their energy and their persecution of others, and simultaneously unremarkable to me, in that action remains the focus of Judaism 2,000 years later. While it would be cheeky to suggest that Jesus is straightforwardly “socialist”, it is not entirely preposterous to suggest that Jesus himself, and even many of the Christians who followed him, are somewhat interested in that most radical and least loved idea in left-wing political theory, the abolition of the family. It is from statements like these that Paul derives the assertion that we are all related through Christ as much as through blood, that the most important union for humans to be concerned with is that of the body of Christ as a whole. To show you what I see here, as an outsider to Christianity: I see Jesus as a virtuous Jew in ancient Palestine, which means I understand him to be a member of a householder religion. This is remarkable given its contrast with, for example, what Aristotle termed the “executive virtue” of knowing how to make and give money well, what Jews emphasize in household ethics, and of course what our current society values today. (Try to see it my way – in my religion, we think forgiveness is nice, but not the chief virtue. Very few Christians I meet are interested in giving up their earthly possessions to serve the poor (though I am always delighted when I meet one who is). When I sang in the King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, the windows of the building were designed to show that the most sacred texts of my religion were merely a predecessor for the true, developed view, the Christian faith. It is not just my life but my mind that has adapted to fit the Christian world. This is the nod between the worker at the Chinese or Indian restaurant and the Jew on the same night.) I have sung in Christian choirs and listened to Christian sermons and sworn in on Christian bibles and been graduated from every institution I have ever attended with Christian prayer.