"The Five Portraits of Jesus" presents a progressive revelation of Jesus as a person. The first portrait shows him as He is revealed in the Gospels as the Christ who came in the flesh. The Gospels deal with his earthly life and his relationships with men and women. In the second portrait in the Acts of the Apostles, Christ is revealed as the risen Lord. He was resurrected and a whole new view of Him was experienced as the disciples were renewed and broadened in their faith and as the church was established. The third portrait is in the Epistles where Jesus is revealed as he relates to the...

THIS book is a series of addresses on the sayings and doings of Jesus during the days of a religious retreat held in the neighborhood of Caesarea Philippi. This withdrawal of Jesus to the quiet of the hills which cluster round the northern end of the valley of the Jordan has been strangely neglected. Its momentousness as an epoch in His life, and the depth and significances of its teaching, have been overlooked. The purpose of these studies is to set the events of this quiet season and its solemn words in relation to the purpose of Christ's life and death, and to expound their teaching for...