Category Archives: Who is Jesus?

Vintage Jesus, Part 2: How Human Was Jesus?

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Victoria Emily Jones

This twelve-part series outlines the “Vintage Jesus” sermons of Pastor Mark Driscoll. See part 1 here. “The Church has had as much difficulty in showing that Jesus Christ was man, against those who denied it, as in showing that he … Continue reading →

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Vintage Jesus, Part 1: Is Jesus the Only God?

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Victoria Emily Jones

Jesus Christ today is the most extraordinary, the most loved and hated, the most widely considered person in all of human history. More songs have been sung to him, more paintings painted of him, and more books written about him, … Continue reading →

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“Looking for Jesus” by Kate Campbell

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Victoria Emily Jones

The above song by country/folk singer-songwriter Kate Campbell was performed at the Baptist World Alliance Congress in Honolulu on July 30, 2010. (The song also appears on her 2008 album Save the Day.) Perceptive and judgment-free, the song moves through … Continue reading →

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Jesus Is a Taco

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Victoria Emily Jones

The City Church in Seattle launched a campaign last September called “Jesus Is ___,” which ran in tandem with a seven-part sermon series of the same name.  The goal was to prompt people to think about who Jesus is to … Continue reading →

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Happy Jesus, Part 1: A Newish Conception

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Victoria Emily Jones

“There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.”  -G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908) Many people—like Chesterton, apparently—think of … Continue reading →

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Jiminy Jesus

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Victoria Emily Jones

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, an evangelical campus mission, was handing out these cards at a recruitment event at MIT last fall.  What a great discussion starter! Even among Christians, there is no consensus on exactly who Jesus is, or on what … Continue reading →

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‘Who do men say that I am? . . . Who do you say that I am?’

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Victoria Emily Jones

Now Jesus and His disciples went out to the towns of Caesarea Philippi; and on the road He asked His disciples, saying to them, “Who do men say that I am?” So they answered, “John the Baptist; but some say, … Continue reading →

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