One of my all-time favorite movies is Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth. Here is the 'Sermon on the Mount' scene, with Robert Powell portraying the greatest role anyone might aspire to. Spine tingling. Enjoy! (And I HIGHLY recommend this film to anyone who hasn't yet watched it.)
I never have really pondered it before, but Jesus loved animals, too. He did, by default, save the lives of countless otherwise sacrificial animals with His own Sacrifice. What a gentle, loving King.
Here's one of the best concise info pages about the Lord that I've seen yet. Scholarly, yet very readable. I found it most enlightening -- for example, I guess I didn't know that followers of John the Baptist left him (with his hearty blessing, no doubt) to become some of Jesus' 12 disciples. I really need to re-read the New Testament, and I am going to start today!
Jesus is known by many names. It seems there just aren't enough words to describe the magnificence of the Holy One, but this article does a very nice job of trying to list all the most familiar ones. (My favorite, as you can probably tell by the blog address, is "Light of the World," which He truly is.) PRAISE TO HIM TODAY AND ALWAYS!
... Evidently a variation of something called "The Mediterranean Diet," and it's a corker, too. Maybe we could all get physically healthier (to go along with spiritual recovery) by also following His example in this area? -- Just a thought.