1. The profound significance of Christ’s resurrection comes from the threefold justification it provides: it justifies the sinner, the sinner’s hope, and God himself.
  2. Five promises were seemingly all those apostles, staring into the sky, had to go on. Five promises that were more than enough.
  3. Some part of us always wants our ability under the law to be just as important (or more) than grace.
  4. The price was really paid. Your sin remains buried in Christ’s tomb.
  5. The notion that your goodness is “good enough” to make you right with God is a lie straight from the father of lies himself.
  6. Applying the pressure of law to ensure you do not to take grace for granted squeezes the life and power out of the gospel.
  7. Jesus continues to do the same for me and for you as he did for his disciples. He still shows up for us. He still speaks his peace to us.
  8. For Paul, the hope of the resurrection was the ultimate antidote whenever his circumstances tempted him to despair or to "lose heart."
  9. This article is written by guest contributor, Aaron Boerst.
  10. Defy the world with its “oughts” and “shoulds,” for in Christ, it is finished.
  11. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  12. The death and resurrection did indeed really happen. They are accomplished historical facts, and by them, so too is the forgiveness of our sins and justification before God.