Eugene Peterson on Resurrection's Difficulty

The do-it-yourself, self-help culture of North America has so thoroughly permeated our imaginations that we don't give much sustained attention to ...

Absent from the Body, Present with the Lord

The funeral for Pastor Bob Russell's father was held on a cold, blustery day in Pennsylvania. The roads were too bad for cars to go to the cemetery ...

Oxford University Professor Defends Christ's Resurrection

Well-respected Oxford University philosophy professor Richard Swineburne used a broadly accepted probability theory to defend the truth of Christ's ...

Bible Translation Changes a Life

In March of 1956 (when I was about 6), a tall, pale, white man stumbled into my home village of Dibagat in the northern jungles of the Philippine island ...

Woman Spreads the News of a Living Christ

Following an Easter service, a woman approached a pastor I know and asked, "So what happened with Jesus after the Resurrection?"

"Well, ...

What Is the Perfect Age for Women?

A Kelton survey of 1,019 adult women asked the question, "What age would you want to stay eternally?"

Under 18: 2 percent 18–20: 4 percent ...

All Cultures Long for Heaven

The sense that we will live forever somewhere has shaped every civilization in human history. Australian aborigines pictured Heaven as a distant island ...

Jesus Christ as Paradox

Despite our efforts to keep him out, God intrudes. The life of Jesus is bracketed by two impossibilities: a virgin's womb and an empty tomb. Jesus ...

Chesterton on Christianity's Longevity

Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it has a God who knew his way out of the grave.

Tarp and Brick Demonstrate Our Earthly and Heavenly Bodies

Text: "For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down, we will have a home in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself ...