Cynthia Jones

Dr. B. Harvie Branscomb

Author of The Message of Jesus - 1926

One Great World War had just passed and the threat of another loomed ominously on the global horizon. It was in this atmosphere that Harvie Branscomb, the son of a Methodist minister, wrote his doctoral thesis. It was published in 1926 simply as

“The Message of Jesus.”

Doubtlessly concerned that new killing fields were already being cleared for battle, Harvie Branscomb urged Christians around the world to carefully consider the message of the Messiah who came first for the Jews, and then for the Gentiles.

Rather than offer a discourse of his own opinions, he went directly to the words and actions of the Teacher himself. He entreats his brothers and sisters in Christ to not just ask the question “What would Jesus do?” but rather to ask, “What did Jesus do, and what did he instruct us to do?”

Born December 25, 1894 in Huntsville, Alabama, Dr. B. Harvie Branscomb went to be with his Lord and Savior on July 23, 1998 at his home in Nashville, TN. He had spent 103 years on Earth.