Joseph Janson: Who is Christ?

Being ahead in my religion class reading has helped me to be a lot more fixed on what Brother Griffin is saying during class. I feel this next class will be a lot more focused on doctrine and not so much story. I read through all of Jesus's prayer, the Intercessory Prayer in John 17. Now I will discuss more of what it means to pray then exactly what is said in this chapter. Of course anything we see our Savior do that we can feasibly do ourselves, is definitely important to know "the only true God, and Jesus Christ." In this I will focus on a cross reference I found on prayer in the Book of Mormon, in Alma 34:17. "Therefore may God grant unto you, my brethren, that ye may begin to exercise your faith unto repentance, that ye begin to call upon his holy name, that he would have mercy upon you." I point out something I mentioned earlier this year I think, that it is interesting how connected faith and repentance are to prayer. It seems the way we actually exerc...

A lot has happened to me since I wrote last week. And a lot of it I never even expected to happen. This can be the case for each of us a lot of the time. In Matthew 24 verse 44 we read, "Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh." Now of course when we read this we all think, "Well yeah we won't know when Jesus will come!" But I think this can be a bit more deep symbolism than we make it out to be. In the Greek for this verse it says He will come in the Second Coming "when you do not expect Him." this changes the connotation slightly, because we may be thinking subconsciously, "Man Christ will come someday but definitely not now!" And that will be the condition when He comes. We must never forget that our Lord should always be on our minds and we should always be preparing to meet Him. He is the most important thing in any of our lives, whether we think about it or not. I think this scriptural pro...

So I really hope you love the title of my post today. It seems random but it is not in vain. I was reading in Matthew 23 verse 37 and 38 which says, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathered her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate." Honestly I feel that this whole chapter Jesus is throwing down on the people around Him, plainly saying they are hypocritical and saying they kill the prophets. He talks in this chapter a lot about the Pharisees, who lead the people in many respects, and are leading them to destruction. This seems very intense for some of us and that's why we don't talk much about Jesus saying these things. But what I have loved about the New Testament study I am doing is that if you study everything Christ says, you know He is not around for people to like Him and to ...