Jesus’ resurrection from the dead is the very foundation of the Christian faith. As Paul puts it in I Corinthians 15: “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have…
Jesus said, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Truly I say to you unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remains only a single seed but if it dies it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, but the…
The miracle of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead as recorded in John 11 stands out in many ways. First we should point out that Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead is a resuscitation, not a resurrection. The term resurrection is reserved for Jesus’ rising from the dead because of one important factor; Jesus rose…
John 20:19–23, 26 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” [20] When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his…
In honor of this week’s celebration of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, I have compiled a list of my five favorite resurrection appearances. As one scholar points out, if Jesus’ resurrection was something that his disciples made up, they would have scripted the stories better, making themselves appear in a much better light.…
In Acts 10 the Apostle Peter says that when Jesus rose from the dead he was not seen by all the people. He was seen only by people who had been chosen by God as witnesses. The Biblical accounts of the resurrection tell us that the very first witnesses of the resurrection were women. It…
Someone once wisely observed that the phrase life insurance is a bit misleading. He explained that the only thing that life insurance insures is payment of a fixed amount of money at the time of death. Life insurance cannot insure that life will continue for a single moment. The only true life insurance is the…
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