The Book of Jesus: A Treasury of the Greatest Stories and Writings About Christ

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Jesus: who he was. Jesus as they saw him / William Barclay -- He could have been highbrow and uppity / Max Lucado -- No God but these / John Bannister Tabb -- He was everybody, only a little taller / Herbert C. Gabhart -- John the Baptist's testimony about Jesus / Clarence Jordan -- Enoch's witness from the Apocrypha / William Barclay -- About this time lived Jesus / Flavius Josephus -- The mystery of Christ / Elton Trueblood -- There is a man / Jean-Baptiste-Henri Lacordaire -- This your greatest gift / John Baillie -- Our beloved physician / Charles H. Spurgeon -- I believe / Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky -- The good shepherd / Billy Graham -- The great name / Pere Didon -- A symposium on Jesus' identity / John Blanchard -- Christ is good / A.E. Garvie -- A gathering of angels / Calvin Miller -- That night / Author Unknown -- His greatness / Blaise Pascal -- Christ in Galilee / Andrew Martin Fairbairn -- The bogus description of Christ / Edgar Johnson Goodspeed -- The death of Christ / John R.W. Stott -- I know men / Napoleon Bonaparte -- All things to all men / Giles Fletcher -- Jesus who fascinates and the Christ who saves / C.S. Lewis -- Jesus came preaching / George A. Buttrick -- What are we to make of Christ? / C.S. Lewis -- God is a poet / Frederick Buechner -- He was himself / George A. Buttrick -- The trinity / Billy Graham -- Ragman / Walter Wangerin -- The son of man came eating and drinking / I.F. -- Loving the disguised Christ / Mother Teresa of Calcutta -- Trapped between person and idea / Earl Palmer -- Is Jesus Real? / Lois A. Cheney -- The Prince of peace / William Jennings Bryan -- The grand inquisitor / Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky -- Nature of man / Karl Rahner -- Yeshua / Sholem Asch -- Child Jesus / John Oxenham -- What was Jesus? / Dr. R.J. Campbell. Jesus: his birth. Some questions for Joseph / Max Lucado -- The wonderful teacher / Elijah P. Brown -- The shepherd's field / Jean-Baptiste-Henri Lacordaire -- Twenty-five questions for Mary / Max Lucado -- The Christ of Bethlehem is the messiah / Alfred Edersheim -- Christmas day sermon / Martin Luther -- I have a room / Sir Matthew Hale -- God came near / Max Lucado -- Jesus' birth / Clarence Jordan -- The Christ of Christmas / Pam Whitley -- The birth / Gene Edwards -- The virgin birth is nothing compared to incarnation / Madeleine L'Engle -- An advent monologue / Walter Wangerin -- Christmas / Saint Augustine of Hippo -- The singer / Calvin Miller -- The flight into Egypt / Thomas Merton -- Bethlehem / Alfred Edersheim -- The lamb / William Blake -- Herod's suspicions / Richard Crashaw -- December 25 ... or thereabout / Alfred Edersheim -- Ben-Hur: a tale of the Christ / Lew Wallace -- Joseph's song (Joseph, a witness) / Michael Card -- Genealogy of Jesus / Saint Matthew -- Born to be king / Henry Gariepy -- Jouney of the Maji / T.S. Eliot -- In the bleak mid-winter / Christina Rossetti -- How Herod ended up / Alfred Edersheim -- The holy birth / Jim Bishop -- They hymn / John Milton -- Away in a manger / James R. Murray -- A Christmas prayer for the home / Henry Van Dyke -- The bird of dawning / William Shakespeare -- The Coventry carol / Author Unknown -- Meditation / Ken Gire -- What of those silent years between Bethlehem and the beginning of his public ministry? / Alfred Edershem -- The birth of Jesus / Henry Van Dyke -- Bring a torch, Jeannette, Isabella / Author Unknown -- Hark! The herald angels sing / Charles Wesley -- Virgil's star / Virgil -- Ave Maria gratia plena / Oscar Wilde -- A hymn on the nativity of my savior / Ben Jonson -- The meaning of miracle / Calvin Miller -- Why the Maji might have followed the star / Ethelbert Stauffer -- Ode on the morning of Christ's nativity / John Milton. Jesus: his friendship with us all. Friends to the death / Max Lucado -- The grand sect / Elton Trueblood -- On meeting Christ / Saint Augustine of Hippo -- Jesus teaches Nicodemus / Clarence Jordan -- The centurion / Richard Crashaw -- I have called you friends / Robert South -- Keep our cool because / Bernard Bangley -- What it means to be a disciple / C.S. Lewis -- The children's Jesus / J.C. Carlile -- Friendship / George A. Buttrick -- Unto the hills / Billy Graham -- In the name of Jesus / Soren Kierkegaard -- Letter from Jesus / Author Unknown -- Jesus' love of children / Harry Emerson Fosdick -- If I had a voice / Lois A. Cheney -- Knowing Christ in the quiet place / Richard Baxter -- Longing to be with Christ / William Cowper -- Life together / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- No hurry / Calvin Miller -- How the great guest came / Edwin Markham -- His mercy and love / Charlres Dickens -- Sometimes, people argue / Lois A. Cheney -- It only requires a touch / Watchman Nee -- Lord, Lord, open unto me / Howard Thurman -- Holy fellowhip with Jesus / Charles H. Spurgeon -- Adore the Savior / Calvin Miller -- Footprints / Margaret Fishback Powers -- Heaven is a playground / William Griffin -- Practice the presence of God / Brother Lawrence -- God is no fool / Lois A. Cheney -- Jesus praying / Hartley Coleridge -- The sanctification of each stage of life / Saint Irenaeus of Lyons -- Jesus, the righteous husband / James Long -- The hound of heaven / Francis Thompson -- Late have I loved you / Saint Augustine of Hippo -- Women Disciples / Harry Emerson Foskick. Jesus: his becoming one of us. Life of Christ / William J. Dawson -- A shocking departure from the expected / Elton Trueblood -- God with us / Henry Hart Milman -- We can commune with Christ every day / Louis Evely -- Christ our sculptor / Paul Billheimer -- Jesus, fully man / Major W. Ian Thomas -- Jesus became a human being / Meister Eckhart -- The incarnation / C.S. Lewis -- Immanuel / Michael Card -- The word became flesh / Max Lucado -- Did you ever cry, Jesus? / Donna Swanson -- Bread and spiritual hunger / Malcolm Muggeridge -- Grace / John Bunyan -- Following Jesus / Michael Card -- Baptizing Jesus / H.I. Hester -- A psalm for Palm Sunday / Joseph Bayley -- Jesus in the temple / John Donne -- The life of sorrow which Jesus led from his birth / Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori -- Knowing God / J.I. Packer -- God's love revealed in his becoming man / Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori -- Jesus, the worm / Roy Hession -- Renunciation / William Shakespeare -- The theater of incarnation / Helmut Thielicke -- Only begotten son / Nate Adams -- A psalm to the God man / Joseph Bayley -- Mother Teresa and the baby found in a dustbin / Malcolm Muggeridge -- God's love revealed in his being born an infant / Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori -- The angels' song / John Milton. Jesus: his miracles. The conscious water / Richard Crashaw -- The man who scratched / William Giffin -- The miracles of Jesus / Marcus Borg -- The cure of the deaf and dumb / Martin Luther -- Loaves and fishes / Fulton Oursler -- Lazarus / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- The prince of peace / William Jennings Bryan -- The woman who came behind him in a crowd / George MacDonald -- The servant who was sick / William Griffin -- The storm / Fulton Oursler -- The cure in the Synagogue / Emil Ludwig -- The birth / Gene Edwards -- Cana / Thomas Merton -- His miracles / Charles Dickens -- The girl who died / William Griffin -- Miracles / Billy Graham -- Healing / Fulton Oursler -- The touch of faith / Peter Marshall -- Bartimeus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Light snow / William Griffin. Jesus: his teachings. The grace that is costly and yet is free / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- The laborers in the vineyard / Robert Farrar Capon -- Let Christ take the sin out of your life / Billy Sunday -- The beatitudes that are / J.B. Phillips -- The martyr watchers / Dr. David Yonggi Cho -- This thing is from me (1 Kings 12:24) / Laura A. Barter Snow -- The golden rule / A.E. Garvie -- The hospital / Charles H. Spurgeon -- The Canaanite woman / Martin Luther -- The seven last words / Lehman Strauss -- Teachings / Charles Dickens -- The parable of the unmerciful servant / Clarence Jordan -- The seventh beatitude / Charles H. Spurgeon -- Christ's teaching in eternity / Marin Luther -- Following Christ / Elijah P. Brown -- The gotta-be-alive God / J.B. Phillips -- The imitation of Christ / Thomas a Kempis -- A symposium: Jesus on teaching / John Blanchard -- The parable of the tenants / Clarence Jordan -- Jesus' teaching on prayer / Martin Luther -- The great stirrer-up / Frank C. Laubach -- Who can be saved? / Charles Kingsley -- My neighbor / Charles H. Spurgeon -- Parable of the banquet / Clarence Jordan -- Washing of the disciples' feet / Martin Luther -- Discipleship then / Dallas Willard -- Let the little children come unto me / Horace Bushnell -- Jesus: the catchy storyteller / Lois A. Cheney -- The sinner who was sorry / William Griffin -- The spirit of love that makes everything easy / Francoise Fenelon -- Conflict, not coziness / Billy Graham -- By bread alone / Phillips Brooks -- Doctor to the sick / David Wenham -- Jesus' view of scripture / John R.W. Stott -- Do not worry about your life / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- To teach his teachings / Horace Bushnell -- Teaching on forgiveness / Richard Rolle -- Jesus' self-centered teaching / John R.W. Stott -- Smiling at the spouse / Mother Teresa of Calcutta -- The little flowers of Saint Francis / Saint Francis of Assisi -- Absolute truthfulness / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- The great commission / Billy Graham -- Jesus the wanderer / Lois A. Cheney -- Say thank you / Albert Schweitzer -- The seven great "I am's" of Jesus / Calvin Miller -- The teachings (Matthew 11:28) / Paul Tillich -- The sermon on the mount (Matthew 4:23-7:49 KJV) -- Whoever would be great / J.C. and Augustus Hare -- Revolutionary neighbor relations / David Wenham -- The stories of Jesus / Calvin Miller -- Who as Jesus? / Lois A. Cheney -- Meditation teachings (Matthew 5:23-25) / Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Jesus: his cross. Aslan's redemption / C.S. Lewis -- Christ the lamb / Robert E. Coleman -- The celtic tradition / Author Unknown -- Cross carrying / Chales H. Spurgeon -- Meditations on the cross / Author Unknown -- The passion / John Milton -- He came as a man / Saint Athanasius -- The passion not passive / H.H. Farmer -- The crucified Christ / Saint Anselm -- A symposium on the credibility of the cross / John Blanchard -- The deal / William Griffin -- Jesus' unanswered appeal / C.S. Lewis -- Religion in Shakespeare / William Shakespeare -- The bogus death warrant of Jesus Christ / Edgar Johnson Goodspeed -- Crucify him / Charles Dickens -- The dialogue / Saint Catherine of Siena -- From the imitation of Christ (That temporal miseries must be borne patiently) / Thomas a Kempis -- The lesson of the cross / Charles H. Spurgeon -- The faith of Jesus / D.S. Cairns -- The cross / Lois A. Cheney -- Luther and the Devil / Martin Luther -- Calvary and the foreshadowed cross / Jessie Penn-Lewis -- Christ the Son of Man / C.F. Andrews -- The crucifixion / Martin Luther -- Desire for the cross / Elisabeth Elliot -- Mothers / Ruth Bell Graham -- The coronet / Andrew Marvell -- The look / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- The cross / Calvin Miller -- Adoro te devote / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- The entry into Jerusalem / Author Unknown -- Christian reaches the cross / John Bunyan -- There are no ladders / Judith Deem Dupree -- Alas! And did my savior bleed / Isaac Watts -- Christ died quickly on the cross / William D. Edwards -- A ballad of trees and the master / Sidney Lanier -- Whan I survey the wondrous cross / Isaac Watts -- In Gethsemane / Elizabeth Goudge -- The apocryphal Jesus / Joseph Campbell -- The form of a servant / Calvin Miller -- Alone into the mountain / Katharine Lee Bates -- A hymn to God the Father / Ben Jonson -- Smoke on the mountain / Joy Davidman -- The cross / Calvin Miller -- Am I a soldier of the cross? / Isaac Watts -- Calvary / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- The cross / Calvin Miller -- A psalm for Maundy Thursday / Joseph Bayley -- Friday / Calvin Miller -- Jesus / Frederick Buechner -- Communion / Ruth Bell Graham -- The dying life / Calvin Miller -- The blood of Christ / William Cowper. Jesus: his resurrection. Jesus: the compassionate God / Henri J.M. Nouwen -- Aslan's resurrection / C.S. Lewis -- Saturday: Jesus' day to be dead / Robert Farrar Capon -- Business of life / Morton Kelsey -- Christ is arisen / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Talleyrand's advice / C.H. Robinson -- The eleven resurrection appearances / A.T. Robertson -- Love crucified arose / Michael Card -- Resurrection life / William L. Craig -- Easter / John Updike -- Nature / Dr. Wernher von Braun -- Easter wings / George Herbert -- The event named resurrection / Thomas C. Oden -- Turin / Stephen Brown -- God's son / Lois A. Cheney -- Easter / George Herbert -- The cross / Calvin Miller -- Jesus and Socrates / Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jesus: his continuing reign. "I am the way" / Alice Meynell -- The martyrdom of Jim Elliot / Elisabeth Elliot -- The conversion of Boris Kornfeld / Charles Colson -- The cross and the human need for love / Alister McGrath -- One solitary life / Author Unknown -- The memoirs of a madman / Leo Tolstoy -- A reversal of meekness / Richard Foster -- Friendship with us / Charles Colson -- The light of Christ / George Fox -- His enduring words ; God's underground / Elton Trublood -- Daily prayer / Mother Teresa of Calcutta -- The art of becoming like Christ / Professor Momerie -- War and peace / Charles H. Spurgeon -- Morning prayers / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- The Bishop of souls / Herbert C. Gabhart -- A prayer / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- On leaving home / Charles Dickens -- This transitory life / Author Unknown -- With how great reverence Christ is to be received / Thomas a Kempis -- Results of the atonement / Billy Graham -- His pilgrimage to death / Sir Walter Raleigh -- The conversion of Charles Colson / Charles Colson -- John Woolman is dead / John Woolman -- A symposium on Christ's Lordship / John Blanchard -- Praise / Constantine the Great -- Saved by grace / Karl Barth -- A present and an argument / William Griffin -- If any reason be in Christ / W.M. MacGregor -- Looking back / John Clifford -- The martyrdom of Polycarp / John R.W. Stott -- How to reign with Christ / Author Unknown -- I missed him ... found him / George MacDonald -- Operations of divine grace / John Woolman -- Christ in me / Major W. Ian Thomas -- Say, what saw you? / Lionel Johnson -- For my part / David Livingstone -- Christ's continued reign / Frank C. Laubach -- The living one / Charles H. Spurgeion -- Quo Vadis? / Henryk Sienkiewicz -- Betrayed / Charles H. Spurgeon -- Now is it our turn / Cardinal John Henry Newman -- Christ in the life / Thomas Edward Brown -- How we block Christ's advance / William Temple -- Joseph the Masai / Michael Card -- Death of Dr. Johnson / James Boswell -- Amazing Grace! / John Newton -- Potentate / Herbert C. Gabhart -- A self-dedication / Jonathan Edwards -- Love (III) / George herbert -- On his baptismal birthday / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The wideness of God's mercy / John Donne -- Jesus' continuing reign / Blaise Pascal -- God's right / Saint Bernard of Clairvaux -- O for a thousand tongues / Charles Wesley -- Sometimes to be reckless / W.M. MacGregor -- I met the master / Author Unknown -- Palm Sunday / Martin Luther -- John Wesley's heart strangely warmed / John Wesley -- Jesus shall reign where'er the sun / Isaac Watts -- Thy righteousness is in heaven / John Bunyan -- The loss of the Santa Maria (Christmas Day 1492) / Christopher Columbus -- Tolstoy's conversion / Leo Tolstoy -- He who would be great among you / Luci Shaw -- The God of Christians / Blaise Pascal -- Saving life of Christ / Major W. Ian Thomas -- Pilgrim's progress / John Bunyan -- Death / George Herbert -- With Jesus forever / J.C. Pollock -- Jesus, King / Calvin Miller -- Barnfloor and winepress / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Jesus / Lois A. Cheney -- How sweet the name / John Newton -- Going home / William Griffin -- Christ is my saviour / Sadhu Sundar Singh. Jesus: his second coming. Watch, therefore / Bob Benson and Michael W. Benson -- The harlequin Christ / Harvey Cox -- What Jesus had to say about the end of the world / Eugene Peterson -- Second coming / John Bunyan -- Heaven / Author Unknown -- The parable of the tenants / Clarence Jordan -- The hope of his coming / Billy Graham -- Last things / C.S. Lewis -- Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- The world's last night / C.S. Lewis -- We shall hear / Judith Deem Dupree -- Our cooperation with God / Desmond M. Tutu -- The parable of the ten virgins / Clarence Jordan.