Jesus' Ascension Brings Sigh of Relief

To embrace the Ascension is to heave a sigh of relief, to give up the struggle to be God (and with it the inevitable despair at our constant failure), ...

Proclaiming King Jesus

At the end of his sermon on Isaiah 9:6, Ken Langley, pastor of Christ Community Church in Zion, Illinois, shared this powerful thought about the life ...

Master Violinist Goes Unrecognized

Joshua Bell emerged from the Metro and positioned himself against a wall beside a trash basket. By most measures, he was nondescript—a youngish ...

John Donne on Christ's Voluntary Death

Christ died because he would die; other men admitted to the dignity of martyrdom are willing to die, but they die by the torments of the executioners; ...

Anne Rice Praises Jesus

Anne Rice, whom the media has called "the Queen of the Occult," has sold millions of novels about vampires and witches. Several of them were made into ...

Bono Proclaims the Divinity of Jesus

Bono, lead singer of the rock group U2, was asked if the claim of Jesus' divinity is farfetched.

No, it's not farfetched to me. Look, the secular ...

C.S. Lewis on the Deity of Jesus

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral ...

Max Lucado Calls Christ's Cross the Hinge of History

Author Max Lucado describes the pivotal nature of the cross in history and in each of our lives.

It rests on the time-line of history like a compelling ...

Jesus Cannot Be Domesticated

"Much of the history of Christianity has been devoted to domesticating Jesus—to reducing that elusive, enigmatic, paradoxical person to dimensions ...

Ex-Evangelist Misses Jesus

In the late 1940s, Charles Templeton was a close friend and preaching associate of Billy Graham. He effectively preached the gospel to large crowds in ...