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 […]
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Some skeptics like to claim that the resurrection and other miracles by Jesus are possible but it would require extraordinary amount of evidence to believe it. If the New Testament makes extraordinary claims of miracles, as the skeptic would tell us, we must have extraordinary evidence in order to believe those claims. The objection, on
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October 31st of this year marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing his “95 Theses”1 to the All Saints Church door in Wittenberg, Germany. David Mathis’ writes: “It’s no accident that October 31 is both Halloween and the day remembered for the start of the Reformation. Both key off November 1, All Saints’ Day —
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One of the reasons people disbelieve in the resurrection of Jesus is because they don’t believe he really died. Sometimes when we’re defending the idea that Jesus rose from the dead, we have to give reasons that he died in the first place. In order to do this we must introduce the idea of multiple
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Every once in a while, someone gives you the great gift of feedback – thoughtful, constructive, and timely. It happened this week when a friend said, “You don’t preach the gospel.” Most of the feedback I get on sermons is…well…silence. Most who listen to my sermons don’t say anything at all. I learned a long time ago
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I remember when I was a kid I would watch the Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon show. I’m not sure what it was that attracted me to the show. Maybe it was the random devices the coyote strapped to himself to catch the Road Runner or the fact they always backfire on him. I
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