Jesus In The Present Tense

In Jesus in the Present Tense, Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe explores the “I AM” statements of God—from His burning bush conversation with Moses, to His powerful reassurances to the Israelites, to Jesus’s startling claim to be the Light of the World. Many Christians find themselves mired in past regrets or future fears, but the name of God itself reminds readers that God wants them to live in the present. The more readers understand and apply God’s I AM statements from the Old and New Testaments, the more they will realize God’s peace and joy. Then they will be free to live, serve, and know God more richly in the present tense—which is just where He wants them to be.

J rgen Moltmann formulates necessary questions about the significance of Jesus the Christ for persons today. He offers a compelling portrait of the earthly Jesus as the divine brother in our distress and suffering and points to the risen Christ as the warrant for the "future in which God will restore everything . . . and gather everything into his kingdom." Urging that acknowledgment of Christ and discipleship are two sides of the same coin, Moltmann contends that the question of Jesus Christ for today is not just an intellectual one. Moltmann takes fresh approaches to a number of crucial topics: Jesus and the kingdom of God, the passion of Christ and the pain of God, Jesus as brother of the tortured, and the resurrection of Christ as hope for the world, the cosmic Christ, Jesus in Jewish- Christian dialogue, the future of God, and others.

Stress is inevitable, but letting it control your life is optional. As a bestselling author, counselor, and life coach, Holley Gerth has learned a lot about dealing with stress and what truly helps. What Your Soul Needs for Stressful Times is your invitation to pause for a few moments of encouragement, peace, and strength each day. This 60-day devotional offers spiritual truth to soothe your soul alongside practical tools to apply that will truly make a difference. Each day, Holley offers Scripture, a prayer, questions for reflection, and inspirational quotes to help you learn to live with more peace and less pressure, more calm and less chaos, more worship and less worry.

This work discusses the quest for the Jewish Jesus of history and challenges readers to think seriously about not only Jesus' historical significance, but also his ongoing moral and theological relevance.

Faith is not measured by how much we have read or superficially understand about the Bible, but how much of it we are "doing" because to really Understand This Christian Thing in any meaningful way we must be applying it to our lives in the present tense. Application is experience and not until we acknowledge both our great need and personal inability apart from Christ will we humble ourselves to seek and listen to Him. Most people are waiting to see if what Jesus said and promises will come true - this likewise is not faith. Waiting and watching do not build faith - they weaken and reduce it! In contrast, a few are testing His Promises today for only in a present tense asking, seeking, knocking, tasting, and seeing can we hope to grow in faith in Jesus Christ as we see Him day-by-day fulfilling His now promises as a preclude and foundation for His great promise of eternal life. True faith is built on repeated confirmations of promises fulfilled in the present tense! Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine

Many Christians have been missing it. The way we reign in Life and walk in freedom and power is a way we wouldn't expect - because it is a paradox to the natural human / world's way of thinking. It was a secret hidden since the beginning and for ages. It was a mystery.... until Christ revealed it. It is an image of God Himself. And it is presented in the book, LOVE in the Present Tense: Mysteries Revealed There may be surprises among the book's topics such as: "What IS LOVE - Anyway?" "Mysteries Revealed" "Set Free...to be Owned as Slaves...Whaatt?!" "Christ Revealed a Secret" "Spiritual Sacrifices....Pleasing to God? Oh Please" "Not to Follow? Not to Imitate?... Hmmm..." "The Works of Law vs The Obedience of Faith" "Angry? Offended? Giving Others Control Over Us?" "Capture the Terrorists" In this book it has been my endeavor to speak of some of the Mysteries of LOVE that have been revealed in New Testament scripture and which many believers in Christ have missed. The mysteries spoken of here are God's Will for us. Often people seek His will, thinking it only means an outer doing of a thing or being somewhere at a certain time. But here we explore the MYSTERY of His will, which in all wisdom and understanding He MADE KNOWN to us according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ. Eph.1:8-9 NIV Following Jesus' resurrection, the Apostle Paul was explaining the mystery of Christ to people when he said, "I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters..." Rom. 11:25 The ones who were spreading the good news about Christ to the people said, "We declare God's wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began." 1 Cor. 2:7 NIV The mystery which had been hidden from the past ages and generations, but now has been revealed to His saints, to whom God willed to make known what the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, the mystery that is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Col. 1:26-27 These mysteries involve not only God's love for us but our experiencing the transforming power of the risen Christ and our expression of His love toward others. We will see the many words and phrases that are used to explain that ONE thing - LOVE in the Present Tense.