Gospel

In Ten Misconceptions About Jesus #4, we learned that although both the Bible and tradition tells us that Jesus was a carpenter, the word teknon has a larger semantic range than our word ‘carpenter.’ It’s not actually clear what He did during his twenty year working career. Here is misconception number #5: During the crucifixion, […]

Christian Audio is giving away Matt Chandler’s ‘The Explicit Gospel’ free for the month of June. Here’s the description: Too few people attending church today, even those in evangelical churches, are exposed to the gospel explicitly. Sure, many will hear about Jesus, and about being good and avoiding bad, but the gospel message simply isn’t there–at least

In 10 Misconceptions about Jesus #3 we learned that Jesus did, in fact, judge people. Moreover, we discovered that His followers are to live lives of moral discernment. Another common misconception is that Jesus’s step father was a carpenter, and that Jesus, Himself, was also a carpenter. There was even a bumper sticker floating around sometime

In 10 Misonceptions About Jesus: #2: We discovered that Jesus is not as He was. He is not hanging out with the poor, healing people, and giving non-judgmental Bible studies on the highways and byways of heaven. He is sitting at the right hand of the Father, in glory, ruling the universe. This next misconception is