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If
Jesus did not rise from the dead, the Christian faith is a foolish
fantasy. However, if the resurrection of Christ did occur, it confirms
His life, message, and atoning work. It is the basis of our hope of life
beyond the grave. Christ is alive, and the evidence is overwhelming.
Here are some of the reasons we can be so sure.
1. Jesus predicted His resurrection (Matt 16:21; Mark 9:9-10; John 2:18-22).
2. The Old Testament prophesied it (Psalm 16:10; compare Acts 2:25-31; 13:33-37).
3. The tomb was empty and the grave clothes vacant. if those who opposed Christ wished to silence His disciples, all they had to do was produce a body, but they could not (John 20:3-9).
4. Many people saw the resurrected Christ. They looked on His face, touched Him, heard His voice, and saw Him eat (Matt. 28:16-20; Luke 24:13-39; John 20:11-29; John 21:1-9; Acts 1:6-11; 1 Cor. 15:3-8).
5. The lives of the disciples were revolutionized. Though they fled and even denied Christ at the time of His arrest, they later feared no one in their proclamation of the risen Christ (Matt 26:56, 69-75).6. The resurrection was the central message of the early church. The church grew with an unwavering conviction that Christ had risen and was the Lord of the church (Acts 4:33; 5:30-32; Rom. 5:24).
6. Men and women today testify that the power of the risen Christ has transformed their lives. We know that Jesus is alive not only because of the historical and biblical evidence but also because He has miraculously touched our lives.
2. The Old Testament prophesied it (Psalm 16:10; compare Acts 2:25-31; 13:33-37).
3. The tomb was empty and the grave clothes vacant. if those who opposed Christ wished to silence His disciples, all they had to do was produce a body, but they could not (John 20:3-9).
4. Many people saw the resurrected Christ. They looked on His face, touched Him, heard His voice, and saw Him eat (Matt. 28:16-20; Luke 24:13-39; John 20:11-29; John 21:1-9; Acts 1:6-11; 1 Cor. 15:3-8).
5. The lives of the disciples were revolutionized. Though they fled and even denied Christ at the time of His arrest, they later feared no one in their proclamation of the risen Christ (Matt 26:56, 69-75).6. The resurrection was the central message of the early church. The church grew with an unwavering conviction that Christ had risen and was the Lord of the church (Acts 4:33; 5:30-32; Rom. 5:24).
6. Men and women today testify that the power of the risen Christ has transformed their lives. We know that Jesus is alive not only because of the historical and biblical evidence but also because He has miraculously touched our lives.
My name is Easter. I am the child of Lent; Central to the Christian year, A trumpet call to the celebration of a Birth, a Death, and a Resurrection. The sun around which revolves the Christian faith.
My
name is Easter, And for almost 2,000 years I have called the faithful
to my altar of hope. I am not a time of the tomb, but rather the
revolutionary promise of a life eternal. Because of me, the valley of
the shadow of death is not a dead-end street, but a passageway.
My
name is Easter, Often assailed by bunnies and bonnets, My cross in
competition with the clothes rack, And man, with his propensity for the
crass,
showing more excitement at an Easter egg hunt than hunting for the meaning of his eternal soul, I am balanced tentatively between the holy and the holiday.
But as spokesman for immortality and the quiet assurance that in Christ eternity does not swallow up and forget a life, In these great truths I still am King.
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Are you seeking from Jesus to be well adjusted? I
sometimes like to use well adjusted rather than the “blessed” referred
to in the Beatitudes for if you are well adjusted, you are indeed
blessed. “Well-adjusted are those who hunger and thirst after
righteousness. Well-adjusted are those who are peacemakers. Well-adjusted are the merciful. Well adjusted are… (Matthew 5:3-10)
Is that what you want from Jesus? The ability to be well-adjusted in your relationships with your fellowman? To be well-adjusted in mind, body and spirit? To be well-adjusted toward good and away from evil? To
be well-adjusted enough “to have a sense of humor, the grace to see a
joke, to get some happiness from life and pass it on to other folk.”
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politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr
once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why so great? Because
he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the
Almighty. As Wyrick
says, 'He wore the mantle of humility easily: because he was more
impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he,
president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was
doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between
both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.'
Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of
politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book
for our American time. Through his careful study of Lincoln's career,
Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics."
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Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham Lincoln's
Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history. Should
have a wide readership."
James H. Smylie Professor of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
"Neil Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln should be read
by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably the most
complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United
States. Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so
often expressed in Lincoln's writings and speeches was not merely lip
service to a Deity, but rather expressions of a profound faith in a real
God. It was this faith that provided the wisdom, compassion, insight
and sometimes steel that Lincoln would need in full measure
as he led the United States through the Civil War. Dr. Wyrick's clear
and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in keeping with the
character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick makes his point very
well that Lincoln, his beliefs, and the faith that formed them, are as
relevant to a troubled America in 2004 as they were in 1863."
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