Jesus' "good news to the poor" includes, in effect, "bad news" for the rich, as the "woes on the rich" in Luke 6:24-25 demonstrate, and Jesus's call for justice and his denunciation of injustice ...

First, the Gospels' accounts of the scourging, beating, and suffering that Jesus endures, even before he is crucified, are unsightly and not typically replicated on church crosses. Remember Mel ...

First, there was a plan to finish. Verse 20, tells us that what Jesus did was planned “before the creation of the world.” God planned that Jesus would die on the cross for the sins of man.

However, at least eight passages in Isaiah (41:8-9, 44:1-2, 21 [2 references], 45:4, 48:20, and 49:3) identify the whole nation of Israel as God’s servant, and so we focused primarily on the ...

It is Easter. And after last year’s virtual Easter I know we need to see the real promise of God in the nails that pierced Jesus’ hands. First, let me tell you about "the list." My builder ...

The slowness to depict Jesus on a cross was not about a general sensibility to the visual arts, although they do seem to have been very selective in what they did portray.

Each Easter we see many images of Jesus on the cross – inevitably wearing a loincloth. But the historical evidence shows victims of crucifixion were fully naked to maximise shame as well as pain.

On the cross, when Jesus dies, the Spirit, who is the great sinew, holding together Father and Son, creation and its creator, is expelled from the Son. In breathing out the Spirit, God is sundered ...

Gracelia Romero, portraying Mary, grieves over Freddie Gonzalez, portraying Jesus, after he was crucified during a Stations of the Cross hike in Baker Canyon in Silverado on Friday, Mar 30, 2018.

The annual “Way of the Cross” procession on Oxmoor Road in Homewood on Good Friday afternoon drew more than 200 believers who meditated on the suffering and death of Jesus of Nazareth.