Have you ever heard a golfer miss a three-foot putt and say, “Thomas Jefferson!?” What about a plumber mash his thumb and scream, “Robert E. Lee!?” I haven’t either, but many shout the name of a man who was born two thousand years ago in a backwoods town to a poor unwed teenage mother. Many exclaim the name of a man who was shamefully executed as a criminal at the age of thirty and died homeless and poor. Ironic, isn’t it?

For some mysterious reason, Jesus is the most famous figure in all of history. More songs have been written about him, more artwork has been created of him, and more books have been written about him than of any other person who ever lived. In fact, Jesus of Nazareth had such an influence on human history that we measure time by him. Our calendar is divided into the ye…