Above: From the 1988 movie. *********** Mark 12:18-27: 18 Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus with a question. 19 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his […]
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   In the traditional liturgy there are certain little dialogs between the pastor and the congregation that, over time, become automatic. For example, if the pastor says “The Lord be with you,” the congregation will respond with, “And also with you,” even if they don’t have their bulletin or hymnal ahead of them. In
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  Shadrach Meshach Lockridge (March 7, 1913 – April 4, 2000) was the Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, a prominent African-American congregation in San Diego, California, from 1953 to 1993.  He was known for his preaching across the United States and around the world.    In his classic message, “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s Coming!,”  Lockeridge
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“Some day you will read in the newspaper that D. L. Moody of East Northfield, Massachusetts is dead.  Don’t you believe a word of it.  At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now.  I will have gone up higher, that’s all; out of this old clay tenement into a house that
2786) “If You Hear That I am Dead, Don’t Believe It…” Read More »
By Charles Colson (assembled and edited from several sources).  Colson served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969-1973.  In 1974 he was convicted for his involvement in the Watergate cover-up.  He was the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges, and served seven months in a federal prison.  Colson
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         (…continued)     If there are any other resurrection stories that are historically true and will withstand investigation, I would like to know about them. But after 40 years of extensive reading on the subject, I haven’t seen anything even close to being credible. If you put other similar resurrection from the dead accounts and
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         (continued…) My reply continues: “And if the source of that hope of eternal life is not the Bible, then where else would you look to find out about heaven? What other sources do you have? Is there any evidence of any other dead person coming back to life? I have not heard of any
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         Christians are to proclaim Jesus Christ as “the way the truth and the life” (John 14:6). This raises questions and objections these days. In 2004 this issue made the news with the controversy over Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ.  There are some things I really like about that movie. It
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By Lee Strobel, posted September 14, 2019 in Investigating the Faith with Lee Strobel, a weekly devotional at: http://www.biblegateway.com ————————- I Peter 1:3 — In his great mercy [God] has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.    “Where is the hope?” asked Christian
By Rebecca McLaughlin, “Giving Birth Taught Me How to Die,” September 20, 2018, at: http://www.desiringgod.org . Rebecca holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill Seminary in London. Formerly Vice President of content at The Veritas Forum, Rebecca is now co-founder of Vocable Communications. She is the author of the
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