1. A “good death” and “good life” are not accomplished through personal striving but are grasped by faith in the promises of God.
  2. Finding rest in God when the “what ifs”come calling
  3. Theology and history go hand in hand in the real person of Jesus Christ, making the truth of the Gospels profoundly human and powerfully meaningful.
  4. We know that death does not have the last word in Christ.
  5. This is an edited excerpt from the conclusion of The Resurrection Fact: Responding to Modern Critics, edited by John Bombaro and Adam Francisco. (1517 Publishing, 2016).
  6. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
  7. If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.
  8. The resurrection of Jesus encompasses the total and comprehensive glorification of a human being, not merely his restoration.
  9. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  10. Christ Jesus brings his word and presence to where you are and he is even willing to do so through the likes of your personally present pastor.
  11. Caesar boasted: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Christ can rightly say: “I came. I saved. I ascended.”