He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman.
He grew up in another village, where He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty.
Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.
He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a home.
He didn’t go to college. He never visited a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where he was born.
He did none of the things that usually accompany greatness.
He had no credentials but Himself.
He was only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned against Him.
His friends ran away. One of them denied Him.
He was turned over to His enemies and went through the mockery of a trial.
He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.
While He was dying, His executioners gambled for His garments, the only property he had on earth.
When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Centuries have come and gone, and today He is the central figure of the human race.
All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man on this earth as much as that one solitary life.
Quotes
“If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.”
“Human beings need not despair and go on an eternal search for the Eternal, for the Eternal has come to the temporal.”
“Preaching is thirty minutes in which to raise the dead.”
“The kingdom of heaven is not for the well-meaning but for the desperate.”
Baptism
"Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior."
Salvation
"Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme--salvation through faith in Christ."
He grew up in another village, where He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty.
Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.
He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a home.
He didn’t go to college. He never visited a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where he was born.
He did none of the things that usually accompany greatness.
He had no credentials but Himself.
He was only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned against Him.
His friends ran away. One of them denied Him.
He was turned over to His enemies and went through the mockery of a trial.
He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.
While He was dying, His executioners gambled for His garments, the only property he had on earth.
When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Centuries have come and gone, and today He is the central figure of the human race.
All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man on this earth as much as that one solitary life.
Quotes
“If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.”
“Human beings need not despair and go on an eternal search for the Eternal, for the Eternal has come to the temporal.”
“Preaching is thirty minutes in which to raise the dead.”
“The kingdom of heaven is not for the well-meaning but for the desperate.”
Baptism
"Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior."
Salvation
"Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme--salvation through faith in Christ."
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