Jesus Wept
Jesus Wept

Author: Barbara C. Crafton

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2019-02-01

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1506454569

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Jesus Wept, Barbara C. Crafton's best-selling and brilliant reflection on faith and depression, is now released in its tenth-anniversary edition, complete with a new foreword by the author, who reflects on the choice she made ten years ago to break the silence and speak openly about her own experience with depression. "I was determined to speak freely about it" she writes. "Many, probably most, of my clergy confreres were - and remain - unwilling to invite such a stigma to take up permanent residence in their resumes. But there are some who know the isolation and despair into which depression can drag a person, and they might benefit from knowing that someone whose whole life has been given to God also knows these things. If that is the case, it's well worth the stigma." Like all human experience, no two courses of depression and healing are the same. Religious belief can make depression easier, but it can also make it harder. It calls our beliefs about ourselves and about God's presence in our lives into painful question. Barbara Crafton's beautiful and candid book addresses these questions head on, reminding her readers that God does not ordain our suffering but instead meets us in our darkest days to compassionately call us toward the light.

When Jesus Wept
When Jesus Wept

Author: Bodie Thoene

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2013-03-19

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0310335965

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“Page-turning . . . Set against the political and religious turmoil of the times, the Thoenes’ story vividly reimagines the evolving friendship between Jesus and Lazarus.” —Publishers Weekly LAZARUS—the man Jesus raised from the dead in one of the most extraordinary encounters with The Living Savior in all of Scripture. But the life of Lazarus holds interest well beyond this miraculous event. Living in Bethany, near Jerusalem, Lazarus witnessed many of the most important events of Jesus’s life and ministry. Lazarus owned a vineyard and devoted his life to caring for its vines and fruit. But he encountered another man—Jesus—whose vineyard was the world, its fruit the eternal souls of men. When Lazarus’s story and the story of Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection touch in When Jesus Wept, we are offered a unique vision into the power and comfort of Christ’s love. Brock and Bodie Thoene’s most powerful and climactic writing project to date, When Jesus Wept, captures the power and the passion of the men and women who lived through the most important days in the history of the world.

Jesus Wept
Jesus Wept

Author: Bruce Marchiano

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-05-11

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1439123950

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Two words. John 11:35. It is the shortest verse in the entire Bible and it reads, "Jesus wept." Have you ever considered the monumental truth behind that verse? Jesus, fully man and fully God, found himself in the midst of human tragedy -- the death of a dear friend -- the death of a dear friend -- and he did what we would do. He cried. In this utterly profound book, Bruce Marchiano explores the head and heart of Jesus to answer questions hurting people have been asking for generations. Where was Jesus when I buried my husband? What was Jesus' reaction when my son was paralyzed? Or when my baby died? Or when the bus overturned? Or the tornado hit? When the terrorists struck on September 11, how did Jesus respond? The answer just might blow you away. Jesus wept.

Jesus Wept
Jesus Wept

Author: Leroy Brownlow

Publisher: Brownlow Publishing Company

Published: 1969-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780915720125

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Formerly published under the title - With the Good Shepherd.

Why Jesus Wept
Why Jesus Wept

Author: Reno Omokri

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780990476450

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To know a person to a very high degree, you need to know what makes them happy, so you can learn to do it, and what makes them sad, so you can avoid it. Jesus, the Son of God, is the visible image of the invisible God. If we want to know what makes God happy, all we have to do is figure out what makes Jesus happy. If we want to know what makes God sad, all we have to do is find out what makes Jesus sad. The events surrounding Lazarus's death and resurrection were so full of meaning and provoked extreme emotions from Jesus. Why did He weep on the way to Lazarus' tomb in Bethany? Could the answer to that question provide humanity clues to a deeper understanding of the divine nature? Reno Omokri unravels this and other issues in this book. The reason Jesus wept is not obvious and will come as a surprise to many. It makes for a very eye opening read and the reader is sure to come away with a much deeper understanding of who God is and what appeals to Him.

Jesus Wept
Jesus Wept

Author: Matt Young

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-30

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13:

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Nothing is more irritating to young Americans than a judgy, preachy, holier than thou Christian who assumes they know everything about your life, trying to tell you how to live. Not only how to live, but how to think, how to feel, and how to hope. Individually, Christians are usually kind, friendly, and personable; together, they too often have a groupthink mentality and alienate their proselytes.Kids these days aren't putting up with it.Data shows Millennial and Gen Z Americans are abandoning their Churches, choosing to use their Sunday in any way other than organized worship. Older Americans still report going to church regularly, but the gap in attendance between them and the younger Americans is wide-and growing.But here is the thing: Half of Millennials and Gen Z still believe in God with absolute certainty. Only 23 percent say religion is not important in their lives. Most still pray, and two thirds consider heaven to be a reality. Millennials and Gen Z are not anti-religion, they are anti-church.Jesus Wept demonstrates the ways Millennials and Gen Z have become disillusioned by corporate Christianity. Through politics, human, minority, and LGBTQ+ rights, income inequality, and a host of other issues, many raised in the church feel the core teachings of love, honesty, charity, and kindness emphasized by Jesus have been replaced. Christianity has been taken over by conservative ideologies, abandoned Jesus' teachings, and now preaches ideas and philosophies never espoused by the Galilean Carpenter.

In the Footsteps of Jesus
In the Footsteps of Jesus

Author: Bruce Marciano

Publisher:

Published: 1997-09

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781565077904

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The first professing Christian to portray Jesus in a major motion picture, Bruce Marchiano takes readers on an intimate adventure into the life of Christ. "Jesus' love is truly a stunning thing, " Bruce says, describing his realization that Jesus is a "man of joy, " full of energy, excitement, wonder, passion, and vibrancy. Readers will discover that He is still the same today as Bruce relates his dynamic quest to understand and communicate the life-changing truth of God's love. Includes color and black-and-white photos from the movie.

Scandalous
Scandalous

Author: D. A. Carson

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2010-02-03

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1433523787

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How are Christians to approach the central gospel teachings concerning the death and resurrection of Jesus? The Bible firmly establishes the historicity of these events and doesn't leave their meanings ambiguous or open to interpretation. Even so, there is an irony and surprising strangeness to the cross. Carson shows that this strange irony has deep implications for our lives as he examines the history and theology of Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection. Scandalous highlights important theological truths in accessible and applicable ways. Both amateur theologians and general readers will appreciate how Carson deftly preserves weighty theology while simultaneously noting the broader themes of Jesus' death and resurrection. Through exposition of five primary passages of Scripture, Carson helps us to more fully understand and appreciate the scandal of the cross.

Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart
Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart

Author: J.D. Greear

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1433679183

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“If there were a Guinness Book of World Records entry for ‘amount of times having prayed the sinner’s prayer,’ I’m pretty sure I’d be a top contender,” says pastor and author J. D. Greear. He struggled for many years to gain an assurance of salvation and eventually learned he was not alone. “Lack of assurance” is epidemic among evangelical Christians. In Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J. D. shows that faulty ways of present- ing the gospel are a leading source of the confusion. Our presentations may not be heretical, but they are sometimes misleading. The idea of “asking Jesus into your heart” or “giving your life to Jesus” often gives false assurance to those who are not saved—and keeps those who genuinely are saved from fully embracing that reality. Greear unpacks the doctrine of assurance, showing that salvation is a posture we take to the promise of God in Christ, a posture that begins at a certain point and is maintained for the rest of our lives. He also answers the tough questions about assurance: What exactly is faith? What is repentance? Why are there so many warnings that seem to imply we can lose our salvation? Such issues are handled with respect to the theological rigors they require, but Greear never loses his pastoral sensitivity or a communication technique that makes this message teachable to a wide audience from teens to adults.

Jesus Wept: The Significance of Jesus’ Laments in the New Testament
Jesus Wept: The Significance of Jesus’ Laments in the New Testament

Author: Rebekah Eklund

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-07-28

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0567671828

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Lament does not seem to be a pervasive feature of the New Testament, particularly when viewed in relation to the Old Testament. A careful investigation of the New Testament, however, reveals that it thoroughly incorporates the pattern of Old Testament lament into its proclamation of the gospel, especially in the person of Jesus Christ as he both prays and embodies lament. As an act that fundamentally calls upon God to be faithful to God's promises to Israel and to the church, lament in the New Testament becomes a prayer of longing for God's kingdom, which has been inaugurated in the ministry and resurrection of Jesus, fully to come.