A Sure and Certain Hope

He Rose Again the Third Day According to the Scriptures - Hallelujah!  (01 April 2018)

He rose on the third day. It wasn't just another day in history, but an eternity in eschatology. The cross was death; the resurrection is eternal life. No matter how many other days of the year we weep, grow angry, get irritated, lie, lash out, threaten, bluff or boast, on this day we can rejoice in that seismic third day, when the Son of God was raised from the dead, and our sin was dealt with once and for all..."

The Gospel Says There is Truth - That is the Message of [the Resurrection]  (01 April 2018)

"Pilate was a man who was very uncertain about truth. 'What is truth?' he said to Jesus when Jesus told him that 'everyone who is of the truth hears my voice' ... Like many people in his own day and like many people in ours, [Pilate] was deeply uncertain about the truth, about whether there are universal, God-given principles to guide us in our beliefs and actions as men and women ... There may be my truth, there may be your truth, little t, but there is no 'capital T' truth for everyone everywhere. The Christian Gospel says different. The Gospel says there is Truth..."

Happy [Resurrection Day]!  (01 April 2018)

No one can name a year that changed man and his world for ever, a century or an age. But it's easy to say which day did just that. [Resurrection] Sunday, 2,000-odd years old today. Hellenic man had always struggled with death its finality, its cruelty, its nothingness. Death seemed to render life meaningless, deprive it of any sense of purpose. Life itself had to be regarded as the purpose of life, and the Hellenes, weaned as they were on logic, couldn't fail to see a self-refuting paradox there ... And then ... people weren't just told but shown that, just as there is death in life, so there is life in death..."

Resurrection: A Sure and Certain Hope  (2013)

"Often when we say we hope something will happen, we mean it would be good if it did; for example, 'I hope it won't rain tomorrow', 'I hope to visit my relatives next week', 'I hope my football team wins on Saturday', or 'I hope you enjoy your holiday next month'.  But hope for the Christian means something different. When used in connection with life after death, we mean something we are SURE about..."

Why is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ Important?  (No Date)

"The resurrection of Jesus is important for several reasons. First, the resurrection witnesses to the immense power of God Himself. To believe in the resurrection is to believe in God. If God exists, and if He created the universe and has power over it, then He has power to raise the dead..."

Evidence for the Resurrection

CSI Calvary - the Compelling Case for the Resurrection  (01 April 2018)

"What happens when an atheist detective takes the skills he uses to solve cold-case murders and applies them to the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth?  J Warner Wallace is a police and media sensation known for solving homicides when the trail has gone cold. It may have been decades since the crime was committed. There is little or not forensic evidence. There might be no surviving witnesses..."

Evidence for the Resurrection  (1977)

"Professor Thomas Arnold, for fourteen years the headmaster of Rugby, author of a famous three-volume History of Rome, and pointed to the chair of modern history at Oxford, was well acquainted with the value of evidence in determining historical facts. He said:..."

Jesus' Resurrection  (No Date)

"Jesus' resurrection from the dead is as essential to the Christian faith as His death upon the cross ... is Jesus' resurrection from the dead an historical event? It is proclaimed throughout the four Gospels as well as ancient correspondence. If these works are the historical documents they claim to be, then they bear witness to an historical event. According to Aristotle's Dictum, these pieces meet the criteria for legitimate historical documents..."

Two Men and Two Faiths...

A Tale of Two Men - and Two Faiths  (01 April 2018)

"Today is [Resurrection] Sunday. Christians the world over celebrate the most important event in human history: the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. At the heart of this event is one person giving His life for others, so that they might live. This is self-sacrificing love at its greatest. ... Another religious leader is also still recognised and celebrated centuries later. He did not lay down his life for others, but instead killed others..."

Why Did Arnaud Beltrame Give His Life to Save Others? Christianity  (01 April 2018)

"I believe very deeply that Christian societies are different from non-Christian ones, precisely because all of us know that such selfless courage is the ideal of what we all should be. And I think that Lieutenant Colonel Beltrame did what he did because of the specifically Christian saying 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends'..."

Thus saith the LORD,
Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way,
and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls
(Jeremiah 6:16)

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