1. 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).
  2. Jesus weeps because his heart pulses with furious rage and fierce love.
  3. Christ shows up in the middle of our storms and our nightmares. That’s where he sets up shop.
  4. Is salvation by the law or not? Moses or Jesus? Indeed, we find a fundamental parting of the ways put forward here, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
  5. 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.
  6. In the tumultuous sea of information, opinions, and ideologies that break over us each day, we hold fast to the anchor of our faith—Jesus, the true prophet.
  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. Caesar boasted: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Christ can rightly say: “I came. I saved. I ascended.”
  11. May you believe, in this thin-line world, that this Jesus is for you, not against you.