” Jesus said to him, ‘If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.’ Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, ‘Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.’” Mark 9:23-24 Faith is an important part of the Christian life, the doorway as it were by which we enter …
In John 20 we read the eye-witness account of the first moments after Mary Magdalene discovered that Jesus’ had risen from the dead. She was the first to come to the tomb and when she arrived she found the tomb open and his body missing. She runs and tells Peter and John and then they …
As the Easter season will soon give way to the season of Pentecost, I thought it appropriate to once again ask the question: why does it matter that Jesus was raised from the dead? There are many reasons why the resurrection matters. Here are just a few: The first reason is a simple but obvious …
Have you ever read your children a fairy tale and come to the final words, “And they lived happily ever after”, and paused to consider the implications of such a bold statement? Too often we are consumed with the everyday concerns of life that we fail to see that it is a whole story that …
“…if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain…” I Corinthians 15:14 Webster’s dictionary defines vain as “having no real value, marked by futility or ineffectualness, foolish.” That which is vain has an appearance that would make it desirable to our eyes, but it has no substance or worth …
Did Jesus’ disciples claim that he rose from the dead? If they did, were they sincere in this proclamation? This area is something else that many critics of the resurrection of Jesus often attack and it is an area I will address in this post. Do we have reasons to think that the disciples claimed …
