If the number of jelly beans produced each Easter were lined up end-to-end, they would circle the earth almost three times. According to the National Confectioners’ Association, Easter is the second most popular candy eating occasion.  Fifteen billion jellybeans, 2 million marshmallow chicks, and 60 million chocolate Easter bunnies are produced for this holiday. What do Easter eggs and jelly beans have to do with the holiest celebration of... > Full Story

Nails have a curious function in life. It was with nails that God wrought our salvation. I’ll never forget an experience I once had with a nail. My first job after graduating...

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I remember several years ago standing behind the curtain during our church’s Passion Play. At the end of each performance, I would step out and explain how to be saved by trusting...

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The Passion of the Christ is a story that comes from a book that tells the drama of life – a book that describes the beginning of time and the beginning of life. The Passion of...

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This is Part 12 to a series - The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus: Compelling Evidence Flesh and bones Many scholars have stumbled at Luke’s ‘a spirit has not flesh and...

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This is Part 11 in a series - The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus: Compelling Evidence But this consideration aside, there are other reasons to think that in the gospel narratives Docetism...

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This is Part 10 in a series - The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus: Compelling Evidence Misunderstanding Paul So although many theologians try to play off the ‘massiven Realismus’...

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This is Part 8 in a series - The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus: Compelling Evidence Thus, Grass is simply wrong when he characterizes the resurrection as an exchange, a re-creation,...

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This is Part 9 in a series - The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus: Compelling Evidence Paul’s understanding of resurrection Paul’s doctrine of the nature of the resurrection...

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This is Part 7 in a series - The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus: Compelling Evidence The doctrine of two Adams Having described the four differences between the present body and the...

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