Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Isaiah 53:1 (NKJV) La verdad sobre lo que Jesús ha hecho por nosotros es tan impresionante que el profeta Isaías se preguntó quién lo creería. Él escribió, “¿Quién habría pensado que el poder salvador de Dios sería así?” (Isaías 53:1. El Mensaje). La mirada profética de Isaías sobre Jesús, en Isaías 53, comienza describiendo al Salvador del mundo como un hombre ordinario “sin ninguna belleza ni majestad” (v. 2, La Biblia versión Amplificada). Él realmente no era lo que los judíos estaban esperando. Pero aun así, Jesús fue exactamente lo que Dios siempre tuvo en mente. El plan era que Jesús “diera su vida como sacrificio por el pecado …
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?
Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Isaiah 53:1 (NKJV) The truth of what Jesus has done for us is so amazing that the prophet Isaiah wondered who would believe it. He wrote, “Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this?” (Isaiah 53:1, The Message). Isaiah’s prophetic look at Jesus in Isaiah 53 starts out by describing the Saviour of the world as an ordinary man with “no stately form or majestic splendor” (v. 2, AMP). He certainly wasn’t what the Jews were expecting. Yet Jesus was exactly what God had in mind all along. The plan was for Jesus to “give himself as an offering for sin so that he’d see life …
Be a person of influence
Do you wish you had more influence with certain people? The truth is that before you can influence someone, you need to build a relationship with them. There are four building blocks to relationships, according to Tom Marshall’s book entitled Understanding Leadership: trust, care, respect and understanding. Without these four, there is no relationship. First let’s talk about the one I’ve already mentioned: trust. Trust is the most fragile of the four. Trust is something you build over time, but you can lose it in a moment. You build trust when what you say lines up with what you do, when someone tells you something sensitive and you keep it to yourself, and when you come through for someone in need. You also build trust …
THE ULTIMATE GOOD NEWS!
Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:22–24 (NIV) When you trace Christianity back to its roots in each country, you can see how people tended to mix their cultural beliefs with Christianity. You can even find examples where very strange beliefs were mixed in—beliefs that go directly against Jesus’ teachings. In the Western world, we mix the beliefs of our culture with Christianity all the time. People pick and choose what they like from popular ideas or other religions to create a sort of pseudo-Christianity. Meanwhile, …
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Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:22–24 (NIV) Cuando usted se remonta a las raíces del cristianismo en cada país, puede ver cómo la gente tendió a mezclar sus creencias culturales con el cristianismo. Incluso, puede conseguir ejemplos donde creencias muy extrañas se combinaron en -creencias que van directamente en contra de las enseñanzas de Jesús. En el mundo occidental, todo el tiempo mezclamos las creencias de nuestra cultura con el cristianismo. La gente escoge lo que le gusta de las ideas populares o de otras …