Posts by Mark Tapscott
EASTER ISSUES 2026: What Happened When the Thief on the Cross Arrived at Heaven’s Gate?
Pastor Alistair Begg describes what happened after the thief on the cross who repented of his sins and asked Jesus to take him with Him to heaven actually appeared at the Gate of Heaven. Begg is a bit tongue-in-cheek but he uses the illustration to make a fundamentally important point. Enjoy! And The Rest…
Read MoreEASTER ISSUES 2026: What Reagan Said About Good Friday
(QUICK READ) — Former President Ronald Reagan was from the generation of American men who didn’t often speak publicly about their Christian faith. That was a private matter for them. But Reagan did after becoming the nation’s Chief Executive occasionally did speak of his faith. Here’s what he once said about Good Friday: “I still…
Read MoreEASTER ISSUES 2026: Why You And I Are Both Thieves On The Cross
(578 WORDS) — Today is Good Friday, the day Jesus Christ was convicted in a kangaroo court for telling the truth about Himself, tortured mercilessly until His back was torn to a hideous bloody mass of skin and muscle ribbons, and then finally brutally nailed to a cross where He suffered for hours till His…
Read MoreWHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Easter Issues 2026 – Is Jesus’ Resurrection Fact or Fiction?
(SIX-MINUTE WATCH) — Today is Good Friday, the day in history when Jesus Christ was subjected to multiple kangaroo court trials, sentenced to die for telling the truth about Himself, grievously tortured, then nailed to a cross where he died in a few hours. With any other individual, such a gruesome death would have been…
Read MoreEASTER ISSUES 2026: The Monarch Butterfly’s Demonstration of The Resurrection Miracle
(2:18 VIEWING) — Monarch butterflies are beautiful creatures, but you may not know how their resurrection wings point us to the central message of Easter Sunday. Even if you do know about this process, you are in for a treat because the following John 10:10 Project/Illustra Media production is a delight to the eyes and…
Read MoreEASTER ISSUES 2026: Did Jesus Disciples Imagine, Or Make Up, the Resurrection Story?
(5:00 VIEWING) — It is a familiar assertion among older critics of Christianity that the claim about Jesus being resurrected from the dead three days after His crucifixion was the result of a conspiracy among the 11 surviving disciples, either as a way of coping with grief or as a venal means of profiting off…
Read MoreEASTER ISSUES 2026: Most of America’s Founders Thought Creation Required a Designer
(9:59 VIEWING) — There is in the most well-known words of the Declaration of Independence solid evidence that this nation’s founding generation was convinced through revelation and natural reason that there is a supreme being who is the source of all fundamental individual human rights. Those words, of course, are based on the Declaration’s opening…
Read MoreFAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Daniel Webster on Faith and American Prosperity
(QUICK READ) — Daniel Webster represented Massachusetts in the Senate during the crucial decades leading to the American Civil War, so he was not present during the Revolutionary War or the writing and adoption of the Constitution. But Webster was among the chief luminaries of the second generation of American national leadership and he was…
Read MoreEASTER ISSUES 2026: Two Archeological Finds Confirm Bible’s Description of Pontius Pilate
(856 WORDS) — In his just-released masterpiece entitled “The Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face With Jesus,” Dr. Jeremiah Johnston of christianthinkers.com shares a revealing vignette from 1840 involving Karl Marx and his tutor, Professor Bruno Bauer. Marx was then 22-years old and an atheist working on a dissertation focused on religion.…
Read MoreFAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Jay’s Thankful Last Will and Testament
(QUICK READ) — John Jay was one of the authors, with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, of The Federalist Papers, which was absolutely essential to the successful effort to secure approval of the then-proposed Constitution by New York and Virginia. Without either of those states, the Constitution would likely have failed to gain adoption. Jay…
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