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Even if you are convinced in the reality of the resurrection, I hope this book has helped you see more clearly the centrality of the resurrection. Belief in the resurrection was the very cornerstone of the faith and message of the early Christians, and it needs to be at the heart of 21st-century life and faith, too. PAUSE AND PONDER I encourage you to take a few moments now to invite the Lord to help you take the next steps in your spiritual journey. Do remember to keep on asking in the coming weeks, months and years too.
APPENDIX A: HISTORICAL SOURCES ABOUT JESUS Let’s briefly consider the historical evidence that we have for Jesus. First, we have a few non-Christian sources. The Roman historian Tacitus, writing around AD 115 about the fire of Rome, which took place 50 years earlier, wrote about the early Christians: ‘Their name comes from Christ, who, during the reign of Tiberius, had been executed <strong>by</strong> Pontius Pilate. Suppressed for the moment, the deadly superstition broke out again, not only in Judea, the land which originated this evil, but also in the city of Rome.’ 1 Around the same time, Pliny the Younger wrote to the emperor Trajan for a ruling on whether to execute Christians living in Turkey who ‘worshipped Christ as a god’. 2 A longer description is found in the writings of Josephus. In one of his books, The Antiquities of the Jews (written around AD 95) he refers to Jesus: ‘Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of surprising works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him many of the Jews, and many of the Greeks. He was the Messiah. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and then thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named for him, are not extinct to this day.’ 3 Although frequent questions have been raised as to whether this passage in its entirety is authentic, many scholars still believe that the core historical elements concerning Jesus, his character, his works,
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Dave Smith invites us on a journey
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3. On the first Easter morning, the
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second question of how Jesus’ res
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At 2.20pm, 5 April 1982, I ‘fell
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used to refer to romantic or sexual
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and controversial biblical characte
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teach us about the seeming absence
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testimony of female witnesses would
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16 Jesus said to her, ‘Mary.’ S
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What’s clear is that this was not
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THE ETERNAL DIMENSION OF LOVE One o
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know how much, in Christ, we are
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FURTHER REFLECTION 1. In the light
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It was a day not to be forgotten in
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group that didn’t survive: ‘The
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an all-loving, all-powerful God who
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25 He said to them, ‘How foolish
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By the end of the journey, their
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deliverer had just suffered the mos
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of Paul’s conversion on the road
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HE’S WELCOMED Despite Jesus being
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Presumably there was something abou
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FURTHER REFLECTION 1. Take a moment
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The longing for inner peace is univ
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For example, it may be that as you
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True peace was at the heart of God
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sense of release, turn your palms u
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esponse to a perceived threat or po
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Spirit.’ The word ‘righteousnes
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To fulfil this new purpose, we must
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encounter may be of special encoura
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Spirit) when his followers are meet
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prospect of our long-lost peace and
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CHAPTER FOUR LIVING IN FREEDOM
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