The Jesus Blog

While I was doing research for a project at school on YouTube, a video was suggested to me that I had actually seen before. The video, which was created by the media company Vice was called, "Siberian Cult Leader Thinks He's Jesus." Basically, the video  is about how a person from Vice, Rocco Castoro, traveled to Russia and alongside many followers and curious onlookers, he join a pilgrimage on one this group's most holy days to meet a man who claims to be Jesus. The man above's name is Vissarion or The Teacher. Vissarion says that he is the same Jesus of the Bible, and that he is the Word of God. Rocco Castoro also says in the video that there was no doubt in his mind based on what he was experiencing that his followers think he is God. I personally think that he looks like many of the "White Jesus" depictions that we have seen throughout history like the one below. What is important to note for this blog is that whether it be his appearance, his f...

Recently, many people have been talking about Kanye West, his Jesus is King album and his conversion to Christianity. The stories of his album began a while ago so I will not be discussing the album specifically or his early moments of conversion. I want to speak to something more recent. I also do want to say that in my opinion, Kanye West is a believer. We do not need to wait for fruit, he dropped a massive fruit basket for us all called Jesus is King to attest to his conversion. Also,   based on 1 Cor. 12:3 Paul says that no one can say that "Jesus is Lord" without the Holy Spirit and Kanye says this very statement in one of the songs. I actually want to treat Kanye in this post like any other believer and focus on an image I saw recently that not only shows the genuine heart of Kanye, but I believe points directly to Jesus. Above is a screenshot of a post  that I saw on my Instagram feed posted by the Young America's Foundation. The post has to do with something...

As I was watching videos on YouTube today, I noticed a video done by a YouTuber named Steph Macleod. The video was a band playing a Celtic version of the worship song Jesus Paid It All . It caught my attention and I watched it. Right at the end of the video they had a graphic that you can see below that shows the title of the song. Jesus, being the focus of the song has his name in the title and this got me thinking about our worship songs and how people view Jesus through them. Just like in my last post , here I want to look at what this specific image of a worship song about Jesus is communicating to other people, but I also want to speak to worship songs about Jesus in general. YouTube is a very popular website where many people whether they are Christians our not can view videos of all different messages and themes. This video was suggested to me, I did not search it. I would imagine that because of my previous searches on YouTube that would include searching for other w...