Mary Magdalene at the Tomb (John 20), by Harold Copping (1863-1932) ————————- (…continued) “Believe in me,” said Jesus, though there is a problem. This is a nice story, but can we believe it? 2,000 years is a long time ago, and the whole thing is pretty unscientific. Eternal life is a nice hope; but […]
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Few people get to live a life as blessed, as successful, and as prosperous as Thomas Jefferson. He was born to wealth and then lived in luxury all of his 83 years. He enjoyed good health for 82 of those years; only in his last year of life did he begin to fail. He
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Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851-1939) was a British archeologist and New Testament scholar. He was the foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor, and a leading scholar in the study of the New Testament. He taught at Oxford and the University of Aberdeen. He was knighted in 1906
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My wife and I never made a big deal about Santa Claus when our two children were small, so it wasn’t surprising when our son figured it out pretty early in life. “Dad,” he said, “I think Mom is the one who buys all our Christmas presents and not Santa Claus.” I congratulated
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By Al Rogness, from The Word for Every Day, 1981, Augsburg Publishing House, page 234. The Christian church really has but one book. Of course thousands of books have been written about the faith, but all draw from one book, the Bible. The Bible is the basis for our faith. We
“Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God”; an article by Eric Metaxas , December 25, 2014, Wall Street Journal ——————————————– In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: “Is God Dead?” Many have accepted the cultural narrative that He’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain
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Seattle Seahawks Linebacker Derick Hall was born at 23 weeks. He had no heartbeat and doctors gave him a one percent chance of survival. But his mom refused to take him off life support. Now he is a Super Bowl champion. After the victory, Derick Hall reflected on the moment using a word that has
There were two criminals crucified with Jesus. At first, according to Matthew’s account, both men mocked and insulted Jesus, just like much of the rest of the crowd present that day. Then later, according to Luke, one of the criminals apparently had a change of heart. He stopped mocking, and then had a
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A while back my wife and I went to a Saturday evening worship service at a Roman Catholic church near where we live. The church building was well over a hundred years old and was built in the traditional, ornate style. It was a beautiful sanctuary with an elaborate, huge altar in the
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(continued…) Secondly, very few would accuse Jesus of lying, but to call the miraculous accounts in the Gospels ‘Legends,’ is to accuse somebody else of lying. If Jesus did not heal the sick, feed the 5,000, calm the storm, raise the dead, and rise from the dead himself, others must have added that
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