Contributed by Greg Buchner on Mar 28, 2005
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Lee Strobel put it like this…
“If we were holding a trial to determine the facts
concerning the resurrection, and if we were to call to the witness stand every witness who personally encountered the resurrected Jesus and we cross-examined them for only 15 minutes, and if we went around the clock
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Contributed by Abimbola Salu on Apr 12, 2005
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The Bible records more than 300 prophecies concerning Jesus Christ in the Old Testament. All these prophecies were fulfilled through his life, death and resurrection. Statisticians have come to the conclusion that the chances of
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Contributed by Larry Jacobs on Jul 5, 2005
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SUPPOSE IT HAD BEEN WISE WOMEN INSTEAD OF WISE MEN?
I read this humors account of the Wise Men (obviously written by a woman):
If it had been ‘Wise Women’ instead of ‘Wise Men’, they would have asked directions, arrived on time, helped deliver the baby, cleaned the stable, made a casserole,
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Baptist
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In addition we have the record of Josephus, a Jewish writer who was not a Christian either, who records the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth.
He wrote this:
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 wonderful works, a teacher of
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Anglican
Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Jul 26, 2005
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Once upon a time there was a good and kind king who had a great kingdom with many cities. In one distant city, some people took advantage of the freedom the king gave them and started doing evil. They profited by their evil and began to fear that the king would interfere and throw them in jail.
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Oct 12, 2005
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A few years ago, Dr. Paul Vitz, then professor of psychology at New York University, worked with a committee that examined sixty social studies and history textbooks used in public schools across the United States. The committee was amazed to find that almost every reference to the Christian
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 8, 2005
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A priest was taking a tour of biblical sites, when he came to a beach and saw a boat and a sign advertising,
"TAKE A BOAT RIDE TO THE EXACT PLACE WHERE JESUS WALKED ON WATER!!!"
Inquiring about it, he learned that the ride there was free, so he went.
After viewing it, he said to the captain
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Contributed by Troy Borst on Dec 15, 2005
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The years are catching up to me, Simeon thought as he made his way through the dirt-covered streets of Jerusalem. This was once an easy walk; in the corner of his mind’s eye he recalled himself as a younger man bounding through the alleys, markets, and crowded roads that led to the place of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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There are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.
Billy
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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Dr. Charles Ryrie says that according to the laws of chance, it would require two hundred billion earths, populated with four billion people each, to come up with one person whose life could fulfill one hundred accurate prophecies without any errors in sequence. Yet the Scriptures record not one
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
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In his book, Science Speaks, Peter Stoner applies the modern science of probability to just eight prophecies regarding Christ. He says, “The chance that any man might have ...fulfilled all eight prophecies is one in 10 to the 17th. That would be 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000.” (one hundred
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Contributed by Andrew Clarke on Dec 15, 2005
You may remember how the ancient philosopher Socrates was condemned to death by the citizens of Athens and sentenced to execution by poisoning. John Stott, the famous Bible teacher, has compared the death of Jesus to the death of Socrates. He says: “Socrates in the prison cell in Athens, according
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Dan Waite on Dec 20, 2005
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Once upon a time, a young minister tried to quit the ministry in absolute disgust. He was tired of the immaturity of the people and disillusioned by the politics and lack of spirituality of the leadership. He “reasoned” if the church, God’s ambassadors, was that badly corrupted then Christianity
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Free Methodist
Contributed by Scott Weber on Dec 21, 2005
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The exclusivity of the Christian faith is not a popular claim in our culture. We are told we should consider all religions equally valid. Barbara Walters had a special on television this past Tuesday about heaven. In it she interviewed several “religious experts.” But the ones she is drawn to
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