Evidences for the Resurrection
Today is Good Friday, the day 2,000 years ago that Jesus Christ was tried and convicted in a kangaroo court in Jerusalem, tortured by Roman soldiers, then nailed to a cross by them and left to die. But on Sunday, the tomb in which Jesus had been buried was empty and that’s when the most…
Unlike every other religion in the world, Christianity is based upon the life, death and alleged resurrection of its main character, Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Son of Man. Salvation is the result of having a living, personal relationship with Him as your Lord and Savior, not on you performing enough good…
Erik Manning of Is Jesus Alive explains: “Skeptics love to tell Christians that the Gospel stories developed over time, adding more mythological elements as they went along. Matthew and Luke copied Mark, plus added more fables. “And then you get John’s Gospel, which is total theological fan-fiction, according to the critics. But if that’s true,…
Signs are abounding that something of a spiritual rebirth is gathering strength in the West, especially the U.S. and the U.K., and, according to Justin Brierley, and one of the prompts of this renewal, ironically, is the decline of the once-prominent New Atheism movement. “While it started in about 2005, I noticed that the conversation…
If you are like me, Spring is the most exciting and energizing of the four seasons because it is all about new life, new color and new possibilities for the days ahead. The lonely cold of winter is behind and the sun’s rays have an enveloping warmth about them. There is nothing coincidental in the…
Easter Sunday, April 9, is two weeks away. Lots of people that day will sit in church pews they won’t see again until Christmas. Tons of the men and women they share those pews with will be there because they believe Jesus was resurrected from the grave three days after the crucifixion. Millions more folks…
Lots of folks working on congressional staffs these days came to the Hill with some rather hostile presuppositions about Jesus Christ, the existence of God and the source and nature of morality. Cross-Examined.org’s Dr. Frank Turek proposes in the following 3.44-minute video that four reasons he lays out are persuasive evidence that God really does…
That question in the headline above is a bit of a rhetorical query because it assumes there was a dead body to be found, in which case it would indicate there had been no resurrection, contrary to Jesus’ repeated prediction and to the disciples’ claims in the days following the crucifixion. So the question of…
There are and have been throughout human history figures people have identified and worshipped as deities, but there is one fact that separates Jesus Christ from Buddha, the Hindu pantheon of gods, Zeus, Caesar and indeed all of the rest of them. Jesus was crucified dead, and buried, but three days later, He was alive,…