1. With the resurrection of the Christ the mystery of life after death became a lot less mysterious. It moved from the realm of conjecture and fantasy to a reality grounded in (of all things!) our human bodies
  2. I found in Jonathan Edwards an unexpected voice articulating beautiful aspects of death through the lens of Christ.
  3. The Holy Spirit is no skeptic. He asserts Christ has been raised from the dead.
  4. 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.
  5. Only the resurrection of Jesus guarantees and facilitates divine presence and love to us as divine life for us.
  6. If Jesus did not rise, then religion is just religion — a mere anthropological phenomenon.
  7. The resurrection of Jesus encompasses the total and comprehensive glorification of a human being, not merely his restoration.
  8. There is a better way to preach the End Times that has nothing to do with Left Behind series scenarios. The key is no secret at all. Follow where Christology leads.
  9. The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
  10. With the resurrection of the Christ the mystery of life after death became a lot less mysterious.
  11. The resurrection of Jesus was the moment when the one true God appointed the Man through whom the whole cosmos would be brought back into its proper order. A man got us into this mess; the Man would get it out again.
  12. Preaching the end times purposes to solicit and strengthen faith in the Savior of the world who is at the same time the Creator and Re-creator of the world.
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