Tag Archives: Jesus Christ

“Ordinary Misconceptions”

“There are many misconceptions about Christianity in today’s world, but the greatest is this: that there’s something ordinary about following Jesus Christ.” That’s the opening of my latest Daily Press guest column. The link there will disappear in a few days, but you can continue to access a PDF version of the article here.

August 17, 2009 – 4:17 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged | Comments (1)

“The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is” by N.T. Wright

Book Review I should have anticipated it from the title, but N.T. Wright’s The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is presented me with an unexpected personal challenge. Wright is an historian of the New Testament era, and in this book heset out to accomplish two historical purposes. The first was what one …

July 3, 2009 – 11:26 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments Off

The Beauty of Jesus Christ

God is good, and his goodness is shown more clearly in Jesus Christ than in any other way. This is a strong beauty in Jesus Christ. “Beauty” is not a word we generally apply to men, but this post (redated and reposted here) was originally an introduction to a series I did some time ago …

May 2, 2009 – 9:19 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (1)

The Cross: Not One of the Universe’s “Nice” Ideas

Dallas Willard writes in The Divine Conspiracy (p. 335), “God,” Paul said, “makes clear the greatness of his love for us through the fact that Christ died for us while we were still rebelling against him” (Rom. 5:8). The exclusiveness of the Christian revelation of God lies here. No one can have an adequate view …

July 16, 2008 – 8:05 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Age, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Gabriel Revelation (The Stone Tablet)

Like Regis Nicoll, Ben Witherington, Amy Hall, and others, I find the recent “Gabriel Revelation” discovery to be a rather interesting piece of new historical information, but certainly not upsetting to our beliefs. It is a stone tablet, dated to sometime in the 1st century BC, that tells of a Messiah killed and resurrected after …

July 8, 2008 – 6:39 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Tagged , , | Comments (7)

Awesome Christ

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series What Kind of Man Was Jesus?

I gave this 30 minute talk at Colonial Harbor in York County, Virginia on June 15, 2008. The point is simple: Jesus Christ is the most awesome person of history. To be specific: people in all times since he walked this earth have had to deal with him. Many have tried to mold him into …

June 16, 2008 – 11:56 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, The Faith | Tagged | Comments Off

Jesus: Who Was He, Really?

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series What Kind of Man Was Jesus?

There sure are a lot of versions of Jesus out there. Can we know the real Jesus? How? It’s almost embarrassing–yet not the least bit surprising–how many different views of him the world offers. Dallas Willard writes in Divine Conspiracy of one such opinion (p. 134), Far too often [Jesus] is regarded as hardly conscious. …

June 13, 2008 – 4:11 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun, The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (5)

Jesus: Full of Grace and Truth

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series What Kind of Man Was Jesus?

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.–John 1:14 Jesus–referred to here as “the Word”–came with glory reflecting his Father in heaven. Part of that reflection was in the grace and truth he expressed. …

May 2, 2008 – 3:59 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (7)

Jesus: Fulfiller of Scripture

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series What Kind of Man Was Jesus?

It all revolves around one man: Jesus Christ. Either he was the greatest person of history, the unique Son of God, or he is nothing at all to us today. What kind of man was he really? We’ll have to take this one topic at a time, starting with this startling claim: “Do not think …

April 30, 2008 – 5:07 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Knowing the True God

Several commenters have raised questions about God and spirituality from a New Age perspective in the past two weeks. Anna’s is the most trenchant: Who is God? Good question. Who really knows? I believe God to be overall consciousness. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Bereket Teka had already offered an opinion: Man …

April 8, 2008 – 11:24 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Age, The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments (3)