(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Its Easter season which means it’s time to seriously attack Christianity in the media.  Magazine articles, documentaries on TV, books, pseudo research into Christian origins and the Bible. All stacked heavily against traditional teachings about Jesus and the origins of Christianity. Each with a variety of professors supposedly exposing the real [...]

       (Image by abcdz2000 via Flickr) Yes! If not, as Paul says (I Cor. 15:14) the entire Christian faith is in vain. Here’s a link to a great article on all of the facts concerning the resurrection of Jesus–a timely pursuit for the Easter season: “Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?” by William Lane [...]

                     (Easter, old Greek salute via Wikipedia) Here’s a good article by Anthony McRoy that contradicts the popular notion that the Christian celebration of Easter was borrowed from pagan sources: “Was Easter Borrowed from a Pagan Holiday?” McRoy provides historical evidence that the name ‘Easter’ was actually derived from the Old High German ‘eostarum’ which [...]

Image via Wikipedia One of the earliest and most essential teachings of Christianity is that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, dead, and buried  under Pontius Pilate and rose from the dead on the third day. It is hard to conceive of any form of Christianity surviving the first century without the Resurrection of Jesus. Messianic [...]

Here’s a great article for Easter: “Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?” by William Lane Craig, professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He looks at the facts concerning the resurrection of Jesus–a timely pursuit for the Easter season. This is the best and most concise article that I [...]

(Image by Rennett Stowe via Flickr) “It’s Friday and the Devil and his demons are celebrating…it’s Friday but Sunday’s a comin’… It’s Friday and the forces that enslave and hold folks down are having a party but that’s Friday…Sunday’s a comin’” A Quote from my all time favorite Good Friday message: “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s [...]

Listen to this! New Testament scholar N.T. Wright is right on in this short video on the Resurrection (2:23)

From The Veritas Forum: Resurrection: An Interview with Dr. William Lane Craig @ UC Santa Barbara 1998 (49:13) Resurrection (Interview) from The Veritas Forum on Vimeo. A Timely offering for the season. Here’s the same interview in MP3 Audio here

Here’s a great article by William Lane Craig, professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He looks at the facts concerning the resurrection of Jesus–a timely pursuit for the Easter season: “To answer the question of Jesus’ resurrection from a historical standpoint, we must first determine what facts concerning the [...]

My Favorite message of all time for Good Friday is by Dr. Tony Campolo. Here is a link to the famous tape and where it can be downloaded. The whole tape is great but the best part is at the end when Tony Campolo recalls one Sunday when he had a little preaching competition with [...]