There are no perfect human beings and even those who we pray such as Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna among others, were not perfect.
If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way?
As I watched them file down the stairs, I didn't cry and I wasn't afraid. But I couldn't tell if it was Jesus or the gin.
I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.
Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving.
The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.
Out of humility I label not myself or others. All I can say is this; God is my Father. Jesus is my Savior. And the Holy Spirit dwells in me.
I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bears His name. He stands at its head and directs it through His chosen prophets.
When we reach out to assist the least of Heavenly Father's children, we do it unto Him. That is the essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus
The law says do good be right. Grace says Jesus made you right so now you are good.
The law provides expert diagnosis of our sin problem, but the law does not provide the cure to our sin problem. Only Jesus can!
Reading the scriptures through the lenses of the Law you see God as unapproachable, through the lenses of Grace you see the outstretched arms of Jesus saying "come".
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.
In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.
All our good deeds cannot save us. We are saved by grace and faith in Jesus Christ.
Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.
In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.
When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!