Luke 24:38b, 39 - “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

“Is the Resurrection for Real?”

It had better be real.
As real as the contractions that ripped new life from my body.
As real as the rattle that strangled life out of his.
I’ve no use for a spiritual resurrection.
If Hope
for the drowned, damaged, disfigured, disowned,
is emotional ease,
if the pain of flesh and bones
is answered with mystical comfort,
if Guns are stronger than god,
then count me out.
But tell me that Death Loses,
tell me that Life Prevails,
and not in the abstract,
but in pulsing blood, flowing tears, thumping heart,
then the Resurrection
is Hope
for us all.

(Kara Root)

The world was a far different place before Jesus’ resurrection. We now live in a world where Jesus is risen from the dead. As (our favorite disciple) Bartholomew says in the movie Risen, “This changes everything!”

“If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.” (Timothy Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, p. 202)

Take a moment to think about and celebrate what the resurrection of Jesus means for your life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEXx0mfxe-E

-JP