Jesus

Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, who for us and for our salvation came down from heaven, was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man. He is fully God and fully man — one Person in two natures, as the Council of Chalcedon defined in 451 A.D. The Word made flesh. The One Mary leads us to.

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Promised by God

For thousands of years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the prophets of Israel pointed toward One who would come. Isaiah saw a Suffering Servant “despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, by whose stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53). Daniel saw “one like a Son of Man, coming on the clouds of heaven” (Daniel 7:13). Micah named the very town: “And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler” (Micah 5:2).

The Old Testament is, in this sense, the long approach. Every covenant with Abraham, every word of the prophets, every Passover and every Psalm, is reaching toward the One who would fulfill them all. The Christian reads the Old Testament as a love letter, written across centuries, finally answered when the Word became flesh.

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God Becomes One of Us

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:14). This is the heart of the Christian claim — that the eternal God, the One who spoke the universe into being, took on a human nature in the womb of a young Jewish woman in Nazareth. Not a phantom, not a costume, not a temporary visit. A real human life — small enough to be carried, hungry enough to nurse, mortal enough to die.

The Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity — these are not merely beautiful stories. They are the moment the divine and human met in one Person, never to be separated. Mary said her “yes”; God became one of us; and the world was changed forever.

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The Seven “I Am” Sayings

Seven times in the Gospel of John, Jesus uses the phrase “I am” — the same words God used to identify himself to Moses at the burning bush (Exodus 3:14). Each is a window onto who he is.

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The Cross and the Resurrection

On the night before he died, he gathered his friends and gave them his own Body and Blood. The next afternoon, he was crucified outside the walls of Jerusalem. He died, and was buried in a borrowed tomb. This is the moment around which all of history pivots.

And then, on the third day — the morning that has divided every calendar in the world ever since — the women came to the tomb and found it empty. “He is not here, for he is risen, as he said” (Matthew 28:6). Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene, to the disciples on the road to Emmaus, to Peter, to the Twelve, and finally to over five hundred at once. The grave could not hold him.

The Resurrection is not the rescue of one man from death. It is the announcement that death itself has been defeated, and that everyone who is joined to Christ shares in his victory. It is the foundation of every Christian hope.

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Three Doors Deeper into Jesus

To know Jesus more deeply, three doors stand open.

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Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.

— the Jesus Prayer, prayed in the Christian East for fourteen centuries