Category: Portraits of Jesus
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He Came in Weakness
A common Christmas sight whether on your church’s lawn, in your neighbor’s yard or on your fireplace mantel is the traditional nativity scene: Wise men bearing gifts; shepherds gazing in wonder; angels in the rafters praising God; a cow, a sheep or two and a donkey grazing on hay.
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I Am with You
Those seven churches were flawed, weak, sometimes complacent, sometimes scared, sometimes sinful. And Jesus loved them.
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Worthy Is the Lamb … to Receive Blessing
The man most deserving of blessing willingly bore the curse so that the least deserving might nevertheless be blessed.
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Worthy Is the Lamb … to Receive Glory
By taking human form, Jesus left behind the glory that he enjoyed in the presence of his Father and the Spirit. He chose instead to be born a helpless baby, born to a poor teenage girl, born in a stable lying in a manger among the animals.
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Worthy Is the Lamb … to Receive Honor
The soldiers led him inside the palace where they clothed him in purple as a joke contemptuously “honoring” him as king.
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Worthy Is the Lamb … to Receive Might
In chapter 5 we are introduced to “a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain” (5:6). Jesus is portrayed as the sacrificial lamb, the Passover lamb, slain so that God’s people could be rescued. This is not the picture of might that we were promised.
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Worthy Is the Lamb … to Receive Wisdom
How does one determine whether Jesus was worthy of this wisdom? We must consider how he expressed and used his wisdom. Did he wield it as a weapon with which to control and manipulate his followers to serve him? Or did he use it to their benefit?
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Worthy Is the Lamb … to Receive Wealth
So, he chose to be born to an unmarried, teenage girl who lived in poverty in a backwater community of a country occupied by an oppressive Roman Empire.
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Worthy Is the Lamb … to Receive Power
Jesus claimed, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me” (Matthew 28:18 ESV). How was Jesus different? What made him worthy of power?
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What Do You See in Him?
When heaven opened, John wrote down what he saw. And what a portrait of Jesus it is. Is this who you picture as you walk through life with Jesus? Is this your image of the Jesus with whom you have a personal relationship?
A Revelation Invitation 