Who do you say that I am?

“Who do you say that I am?” So Jesus asks his close disciples and so Jesus asks us. Often we operate under the impressions we have of Jesus from our childhood or those that are reflected in the culture—which may or may not reflect the Jesus of our adult faith and the Jesus of the Gospels. Using The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey as a springboard, we will spend weeks leading up to Easter looking at the Jesus portrayed in the Gospels, with a particular focus on broadening what we thought we knew about this one called The Christ.

“No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same. In the end I found the process of writing this book to be a great act of faith-strengthening. Jesus has rocked my own preconceptions and has made me ask hard questions about why those of us who bear his name don't do a better job of following him.”  —Philip Yancey

You can order the book or read it online with this link: The Jesus I Never Knew. We will follow this rough outline:

• Birth: The Visited Planter & Background: Jewish Roots & Soil (Feb 4)

• Temptation: Showdown in the Desert (Feb 18)

• Beatitudes: Lucky are the Unlucky & Message: A Sermon of Offense  (Feb 25)

• Mission: A Revolution of Grace  (Mar 3)

• Miracles: Snapshots of the Supernatural  (Mar 10)

• Death: The Final Week  (Mar 17)

• Death: The Final Week  (Mar 24 – Palm Sunday)

• Resurrection: A Morning Beyond Belief  (Apr 7)

• Ascension: A Blank Blue Sky  (Apr 14)

• Kingdom: Wheat among the Weeds  (Apr 21)

• The Difference Jesus Makes  (Apr 28)