What is the simplest explanation for the historical accounts of the Easter weekend? That is what we’re asking in this series. In parts 1 and 2 we looked at two basic facts of the Resurrection story: that Jesus died, and that on the Sunday the tomb that he was placed in was found empty. Part […]
The “minimal facts” of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ are there to be investigated. In the first part of this series we looked at Fact 1: Jesus Died, and asked whether the ‘swoon theory’ held any weight. Today we move on to the second fact. (Skip ahead to Fact 3: The post-resurrection appearances of Jesus […]
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the focal point of the Christian faith. The whole of Christianity hinges upon it. What happened 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem is incredibly important to us today precisely because something did happen. The Christian faith is built on historical events that present themselves to us as questions. The Resurrection […]
Good Friday. The day of Jesus’ death. The day an innocent man received an unjust sentence and a guilty man got off scot-free. The day a man lost his friends, his family, and his dignity. I wonder who on that day would have imagined it would ever come to be revered, to be called ‘good’. […]
“So, why did God have to die?” This question, asked by many, runs to the heart of the Christian faith. Had To? Chose To. One of the most well known Bible verses starts this way, “For God so loved the world …” (John 3:16). Love is a choice. It has to be. Coerced love is […]
Someone said to me the other day, ‘Well, you have to believe in the resurrection because you’re a Christian.’ What he meant, essentially, was that because of the tribe I belong to, there are certain things that I just take blindly on faith. In fact, he got it the wrong way round. I don’t believe […]
The Easter weekend is massive. It represents the crux of the Christian faith. It is a request to us to hit pause on our lives. Where we spend most of our time gazing forwards, Easter turns our vision back to the single focal point of history. A couple of millenia ago, on a hill outside of […]
Luke 24:5 says it all. This weekend is what its all about for us at CVM. Following a captain, brother, rescuer and friend who gave up everything for us on Friday and on Sunday served death and hell its final notice. We follow a risen Jesus. We are men with resurrection DNA. We can be […]
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