Author: Mountain Veteran Ministries

The Bible gives Jesus a lot of titles. Lamb of God. Son of Man. Word made flesh. Alpha and Omega. But one of the oldest and most structurally important frameworks the Church has used to understand who Jesus is and what He came to do organizes His entire ministry under three offices: Prophet,...

Every Sunday, millions of Christians recite the Apostles' Creed — and then stumble on the same five words: "He descended into hell." What does that actually mean? Did Jesus go to the place of the damned? Did He suffer there? Did He preach to the lost? The short answer is that the Church has...

Most Christians understand that Jesus died for their sins. Fewer have grasped that Jesus also lived for their righteousness. The cross deals with the penalty of what we have done. But there is a second problem the cross alone does not address: the absence of what we should have done. God does not...

Christians agree that Jesus died for sins. They have argued for two thousand years about exactly how that death accomplishes what it accomplishes. Is it a payment to satisfy divine justice? A ransom to liberate captives? A moral example that draws the sinner upward? A victory over death and...

Jesus of Nazareth got tired. He got hungry. He asked questions. He wept at a tomb. He sweat blood in a garden and cried out from a cross that God had forsaken him. And the same Jesus stilled a storm with a word, walked out of a sealed tomb, and received worship without correcting the worshipper....