The historical fact of the Resurrection of Jesus - and why it mattersDerek Prime
aEaster is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. Christians believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead two days after his crucifixion, and celebrate this resurrection on Easter Sunday, two days after Good Friday. The year of this resurrection is variously estimat...
What is the fruit of the agony in the garden? The Fruit of the Mystery is Conformity to God's WillAfter the Last Supper, Jesus took Peter, James, and John to pray with him in the Garden of Gethsemane. He was anxious about his upcoming Passion, so he turned to his Father in prayer...
Christ’s resurrection is the ultimate hope of mankind. Since Jesus rose from the dead, every believer can have a sure hope of resurrection and eternal life, which is assured by the power of God to restore all things.
Unlike CCOG, RCG did not even attempt to start out by being faithful to the priorities that Jesus and Herbert Armstrong established for the Philadelphia portion of the Church of God when RCG was formed. And a top priority that David Pack has had for years was the construction of fancy ...
In recent years, the discovery of the long-lost Gospel of Judas, a Gnostic text originally dating to the second century, has led some scholars to reconsider his role, and even to ask whether he might have been unfairly blamed for betraying Jesus. Who Was Judas Iscariot? What We Know from...
ancient towns out of the ground, and the town of Bethlehem, where the Bible says Jesus was born may well be the wrong Bethlehem, asa second town of Bethlehem has recently been discoveredmuch closer to Nazareth, and thus more likely to have been the place to which Mary and Joseph traveled...
Why is King David important to Judaism? How many of Jesus' disciples were Hellenistic Jews? Why was the Gospel of Matthew written? We all know the four canonical gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. Additionally, there are several non-canonical gospels, for example, The Gospel of Peter or ...
Tomorrow is Easter, and Christendom will observe the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Sermons will recount how it brings hope and verifies the promise of life after death and testifies to divine power and love. I don’t mean to diminish any of that, nor any of the other encouraging insigh...
In the next chapter of Genesis, sin was in full swing when their son Cain killed his brother in anger and jealousy. Interestingly, Cain’s anger had to do with his improper attitude toward sacrifices. When God confronted Cain for murdering his brother, He said, the voice of your brother’...