Bible Verses: John 2:13-17Luke 24:13-35Galatians 6:2-5
Read MoreFor Reading and Meditation: Acts 2:29-41
Let us pursue the question we asked yesterday: What exactly do we mean by resurrection? Some try to explain the resurrection as resuscitation - the return to life from apparent death. Those holding this view subscribe to what is called "The Swoon Theory." There are two forms of this theory. One maintains that Jesus did...
Bible Verses: Acts 2:29-41John 19:34Luke 24:1-53Mark 16:12
Read MoreFor Reading and Meditation: Luke 24:13-35
The Bible is unique in its varied penmanship. The Scriptures were written over a period of some fifteen hundred years by about forty different penmen, and yet although of such composite character, the book displays an amazing and essential unity. The most wonderful thing about the written Word is that woven through it...
Bible Verses: Luke 24:13-35Psalms 119:81-96Isaiah 40:8Matthew 5:18Matthew 24:35
Read MoreThe disciples ought to have known Jesus, they had heard his voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently, that it is wonderful they did not discover him. Yet is it not so with you also? You have not seen Jesus lately. You have been to his table, and you have not met him there. You are in a dark trouble this evening, and though he plainly says, "It is I, be not afraid," yet you cannot discern him. Alas! our eyes are holden. We know his voice; we have looked into his face; we...
Bible Verses: Luke 24:16
Read MoreThe Lord Jesus had no sooner risen from the dead when His enemies began to fabricate an alibi to explain away the miracle. The best falsehood that they could concoct at that time was that the disciples came by night and stole the body. (The swoon theory, suggesting that Jesus did not really die but only swooned, didn't surface till centuries later.) Unfortunately for the theft theory, as for all the other theories, it raises more questions than it answers. For example:
Why didn't the...
Bible Verses: Matthew 28:12-13Luke 24:12John 20:6-7
Read MoreBible Verses: Luke 24:1-121 Corinthians 15:142 Corinthians 5:81 Thessalonians 4:14
Read MoreSometime in the afternoon of the day on which Jesus rose, two of His disciples, not apostles - but friends, took a long walk into the country. We are not told why they went to Emmaus. Perhaps they had given up hope. Thus it is too often with Christ's friends in these days, when trouble comes upon them. The bright dreams fade, they grow disheartened and turn away - as if the sacred beliefs they...
Bible Verses: Luke 24:13-35
Read MoreBible Verses: Luke 24:1-121 Corinthians 15:142 Corinthians 5:81 Thessalonians 4:14
Read MoreSometime in the afternoon of the day on which Jesus rose, two of His disciples, not apostles - but friends, took a long walk into the country. We are not told why they went to Emmaus. Perhaps they had given up hope. Thus it is too often with Christ's friends in these days, when trouble comes upon them. The bright dreams fade, they grow disheartened and turn away - as if the sacred beliefs they...
Bible Verses: Luke 24:13-35
Read MoreBible Verses: Malachi 3:16Luke 24:15Matthew 18:20Philippians 4:3Colossians 3:16Hebrews 3:13Matthew 12:36Matthew 12:37Isaiah 65:6
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For Reading and Meditation: John 2:13-17
We continue thinking about the psalmist's decision to take himself in hand and refrain from relaying his doubts to others. I feel it important at this point to say a further word about repression and expression. Christians, we said earlier, are never to pretend about anything. Whether we worry, covet, resent, hate, we...