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ENDNOTES INTRODUCTION: FULLY ALIVE 1 Dave Smith, God’s Plan for Your Wellb eing (Farnham: Waverley Abbey, 2020). 2 Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity (London: Oneworld, 2011) pp39–48. 3 Luke McKenna, Making Wellb eing Practical (Australia: UPP, 2019) pp45–48. 4 CS Lewis, Mere Christianity (London: HarperCollins, 2002) pp136–37. 5 Tom Wright gives a helpful summary of these in Surprised b y Hope (London: SPCK, 2011) p15. 6 Unpacked further in Tom Wright, Surprised b y Hope p53. Many years ago, I read NT Wright’s 800-plus page work on The Resurrection of the Son of God (London: SPCK, 2003) and it completely changed my whole perspective on our eternal future. Surprised b y Hope is a shorter, more accessible version, which contains many of the key conclusions that he lays out in The Resurrection of the Son of God. 7 www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/3q39pd/a_man_his_wife_and_his_motherinlaw_went_on/ I’ve changed the narrative, so that it’s the man who dies [Accessed December 2023]. 8 HOPE Together and Partners, Talking Jesus Report 2022, p10. 9 The shorter ending of Mark (16:1–8) finishes with the empty tomb. The longer ending contains a summary of some of the key appearances that we find in the other Gospels. 10 The significance of 1 Corinthians 15 as a source is considered in Chapter Five. 11 Robert B Stewart writes a useful summary article ‘On Habermas’s Minimal Facts Argument’ in W David Beck and Michael R Licona, Raised on the Third Day (Bellingham, Washington: Lexham Press, 2020) pp1–14. Here he looks at Gary Habermas’ ‘minimal facts’ method and concludes that Habermas ended up with four key facts, which correspond to 2, 4, 5 and 6 on the list I have adopted. He highlights how Michael Licona later dropped this to just three and excluded the appearance to James. Both Habermas and Licona designate the empty tomb as a ‘Plus One’ fact. 12 Michael Licona unpacks this further in The Resurrection of Jesus (Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP, 2010) on pp468–469. In addition to the facts of Jesus’ death by crucifixion, the belief of the disciples that he rose and appeared to them and Paul’s sudden transformation, Licona offers up four ‘second order’ facts: 1. the conversion of James, 2. the empty tomb, 3. Jesus’ predictions of his death and resurrections and 4. that the earlier apostles held that Jesus appeared in a bodily form. 13 Michael Licona, The Resurrection of Jesus pp440–461 deals extensively with Jesus’ appearance to James. 14 Sean McDowell in ‘The Deaths of the Apostles and Belief in Jesus’ Resurrection’ does a careful treatment of this subject in Beck and Licona, Raised on the Third Day pp179–199, concluding that while the apostles’ faith does not prove Christianity, it shows the depth of their faith. As witnesses from the time of Jesus and the early Church, they are therefore reliable as they were so sincere. 15 Tim Keller, Hope in Times of Fear (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2021) loc 1943–7 of 4064, Kindle ed. CHAPTER ONE: TRANSFORMED BY LOVE 1 Barbara Frederickson, Love 2.0 (New York: Hudson Street Press, 2013) page 4 of 248, Kindle ed. 2 Margaret Atwood, Surfacing (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012) p166, from www.azquotes.com/quote/12471 [Accessed December 2023]. 3 CS Lewis, The Four Loves (Glasgow: Collins, 1987) gives a helpful overview of how these various words were used: ‘storge’ (affection), ‘philia’ (friendship), ‘eros’ and a fourth ‘love’, which he calls ‘charity’. While these distinctions are often helpful, some biblical scholars have urged caution, since these words are also used interchangeably. See DA Carson, The Message of John (Nottingham: Apollos, 1991 The Pillar New Testament Commentary) pp676–77. 4 Arthur C Brooks, From Strength to Strength (London: Green Tree, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022). Chapter Six of this book contains some excellent material on the importance and power of friendship. 5 Andrew Ollerton, The Bib le: A Story that Makes Sense of Life (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2020) loc 2643, Kindle ed has some helpful thoughts on this. 6 Quoted in Nicky and Pippa Gumbel, Bib le in One Year, Day 199, ‘How to Feel God’s Love for You’ online version [Accessed January 2022]. 7 Part of this more recent notoriety is due to Dan Brown’s bestselling book, The Da Vinci Code, where he claims that Jesus was married to Mary, who bore him a child! Some of this is based on a creative and unique way of
einterpreting Da Vinci’s famous painting of ‘The Last Supper’, where Brown goes against centuries of art history in suggesting that the person closest to Jesus was not John ‘the beloved disciple’ but Mary. While Brown’s claim that Jesus’ having a child by Mary was ‘the greatest cover up in human history’ makes for a good plotline, it has no historical basis, being completely absent in both ancient non-Christian and Christian sources. Another myth that has grown up surrounding Mary (which has contributed to the more controversial portrayals), is that she is the ‘immoral’ woman of Luke 7, out of which there developed a theory that she was a repentant prostitute. Again, there is no actual evidence for this from the New Testament. 8 I am grateful to Rachel Jordan-Wolf (executive director of HOPE Together) for her insights on Mary. 9 The other Gospel writers Matthew, Mark and Luke all record that there were other women present. John, writing later, chose to focus in on Mary Magdalene. 10 This symbolic nature of darkness is a theme that runs throughout John’s Gospel: see, for example, John 1:5, 3:19, 13:30. 11 Whereas John chose to highlight the role of Mary Magdalene, the other Gospels Matthew, Mark and Luke made clear that other women were with her, too. 12 Michael Licona, The Resurrection of Jesus (Downers Grove, Illinois: IVP, 2010) pp349–55 gives a helpful overview of the ‘women as eyewitnesses’. 13 For what this disciple ‘believed’ at this point, see David Ford, The Gospel of John (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2021) pp397–98. 14 I’m grateful to David Ford for his reflections on this in his book The Gospel of John p400. 15 I take the view that the author of John’s Gospel is the same person who wrote the letters of 1, 2 and 3 John – something which is a topic of considerable scholarly debate! 16 James H Olthuis, The Beautiful Risk: A New Psychology of Loving and Being Loved (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2001) p44, 69, op cit, David Benner, Surrender to Love page 71 of 101, Kindle ed. CHAPTER TWO: SURPRISED BY HOPE 1 Quotes taken from www.goodreads.com [Accessed December 2023]. 2 Jim Collins, Good to Great (London: Random House, 2001) pp83–85. 3 Barbara Frederickson, Positivity (London: Oneworld, 2011) p41. 4 Shane J Lopez, Making Hope Happen (New York: Aria, 2014) p18. 5 Shane J Lopez, Making Hope Happen, pp24–25. 6 John 19:25 refers to ‘Mary the wife of Clopas’ – likely the same person as Cleopas here. 7 John Nolland, Luke 18:35-24:53 (Dallas, Texas: Word Books, Word Biblical Commentary, Vol. 35c) p1,201 and Howard I Marshall, The Gospel of Luke (Exeter: Paternoster, The New International Greek Commentary, 1978) p893. 8 Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (original German, 1946; original English translation, 1959; Boston Press, 2014) p69. 9 Aimee Pedretti, ‘Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. by Inspiring Hope in the Workplace, 20 January 2020, trustmineral.com/culture/honoring-martin-luther-king-jr-inspiring-hope-workplace [Accessed December 2023]. 10 Pete Greig, How to Hear God (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2022) page 12 of 252, Kindle ed. 11 If you want to explore this further see Dave Smith, God’s Plan for Your Wellb eing (Farnham: Waverley Abbey, 2020) p110–112. 12 Duncan Bannatyne, Anyone Can Do It (London: Orion, 2007) p231ff. 13 For more on this see Canon J.John, ‘The Light of the World, 24 May 2019, canonjjohn.com/2019/05/24/thelight-of-the-world/ [Accessed April 2023]. CHAPTER THREE: FILLED WITH PEACE 1 ‘Stressed nation: 74% of UK “overwhelmed or unable to cope” at some point the past year’, 14 May 2018, rb.gy/fq5skf [Accessed September 2020]. 2 The Workplace Health Report: 2023 championhealth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/workplace-health-report- 2023.pdf [Accessed December 2023]. 3 ‘One in five children and young people had a probable mental disorder in 2023’, 21 November 2023, rb.gy/1hg61s [Accessed December 2023]. 4 The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 17, 1983–1984, www.goodreads.com/review/show/303191744 [Accessed May 2023]. 5 I originally used this diagram on page six of God’s Plan for Your Wellb eing (Farnham: Waverley Abbey, 2020).
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Dave Smith invites us on a journey
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4. A future life in heaven Widely a
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teach us about the seeming absence
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testimony of female witnesses would
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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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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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Spirit.’ The word ‘righteousnes
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CHAPTER FOUR LIVING IN FREEDOM
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FISH Afterward Jesus appeared again
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PAUSE AND PONDER If you are current
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