Topic(s): Jesus, Love

Let me tell you a true story about a young fireman. In the midst of a blaze he stepped forward and volunteered to go rescue a little baby, even though the chief had said that the flames were too strong and the building too unstable. As soon as that young fireman was able to get that little girl out the window and into the rescue net, the building collapsed, and he perished in the flames. Twenty years later, at a graveside with a statue of a fireman, stood a young woman sobbing. A man stopped and asked politely, “Was that your father or brother?” “No,” she replied, “That’s the man who died for me.”

Christ did something for humanity that no one else could do. While we struggle with the finality of death, we should be more concerned about the finality of everlasting life. Everyone is going somewhere . . . Christ has provided the way to live eternally with Him.

In Jesus we have the yearning God in pursuit of people. In Christ we find that God is not content to let people live and die beyond His circle of love. Saul of Tarsus was overwhelmed in the Syrian Desert by the Savior whose religion he had set out to destroy. The story may be apocryphal, but when Karl Barth was asked what was the most profound theological truth he knew, he replied, “Jesus loves me, this I know.” —The Book of Jesus, Calvin Miller

Saved!

Topic(s): Jesus, Salvation

• A physician can save your life . . .

• A lawyer can save your business. . .

• A financial advisor can save your money . . .

• A coach can save your athletic career . . .

• An image consultant can save your reputation. . .

• But only Jesus can save your SOUL!

“. . . by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead . . . neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” —Acts 4:10–12