To the Cross

"If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9 What does it mean to confess that Jesus is Lord? Surely in declaring Jesus as your Lord you are submitting your life into His hands. You are saying that you will do anything that Jesus asks. You are asking Jesus to rule, to reign over EVERY aspect of your life. It means that you have decided to follow Jesus in ALL of his ways .  Such a confession means that you repent of (turn away from) all the stuff that you have been doing that God's Word declares you shouldn't do. It means that you have chosen to be 'Holy' - set apart from all worldy acts and values and desires. When we confess 'Jesus is Lord' we are acknowledgeing our wrong doing before Him and asking Him by the power of the Holy Spirit to change us. Some of that change takes a life time (that is sanctification) but the desire...

Archeaological discoveries are often able to go some way to confirm or contradict truth claims. There has been some fascinating discoveries over the years that at least point to the historicity of Jesus and inform our thinking on the accuracy of the Gospels. The picture here is that of an inscription to Pontious Pilate. The inscription not only confirms the historicity of Pilate, it clarifies the title that he bore as governor. It is now on display in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. If a piece of ancient writing is historically accurate you would of course expect that archaeology would support what has been written. By means of contrast, it is worth thinking about the claims of the Book of Mormon. There has never been any archaeology discoveries that confirm: Book of Mormon cities, places, nation or name Book of Mormon people Book of Mormon artifacts Book of Mormon inscriptions There is no evidence whatsoever to support the Mormon claim that Jesus made a physical appearance to walk th...