A compelling list shared by John Piper explaining how we can be sure Jesus was who He claimed to be.

Scribal variations?slips of the pen, misspellings, word order changes, etc.?were an inevitable part of literary life in a pre-Gutenberg world. How did these mistakes affect New Testament manuscripts?

To all outward appearances he's a man of Christian faithfulness and integrity. Then, without warning, his life collapses into a sinkhole of sin. Everyone wonders how it could have happened so quickly. In most cases, it soon becomes known that?like most sinkholes?the problem didn't develop overnight.

Our current climate of spiritual openness coupled with spiritual desire and hunger for spiritual experience should be a perfect setting for evangelism. Yet this is not what is happening.