To believe in and follow a loving and compassionate Christ is to allow him to enter one's heart and take on his same feelings ...

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Moses is the most famous, influential, and revered figure in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, surpassing King David by the ...

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He did this by revealing the heart of the Torah: not a system of rules, but a call to live in love, mercy, and justice toward God and our neighbors. Jesus didn’t abolish the Torah.

It reminds us that Jesus did not only confront injustice and sin but death itself, and he did all this on our behalf. Before this paschal mystery, we tremble, tremble, tremble.

Why did Jesus die? Churches grapple with the mystery of Atonement. Some Christians have moved away from the idea of an angry God who needs to be appeased.

What the crowds on Palm Sunday misunderstood about Jesus then is what many religious people still misunderstand today: Jesus did not come as an earthly king.