Jesus, Our Federal Head Federal? I am deliberately introducing you to an important theological word when I say that the resurrection is “federal.” Of course, I am not using the word to refer to the federal government as opposed to…
That is, you should feel that the resurrection of Christ is something that you, as a rational person, can believe in and must believe in. You must consider the testimony regarding the resurrection of Christ to be credible or faithful.…
That is, you should feel that there is nothing more basic, fundamental, and important to your faith or to the Christian faith than that Christ rose from the dead. Of course, this is in an important respect already clear from…
Let me emphasize one thing just in case it is not clear enough already, and just in case what I will say is not clear enough. You remember I said that how you feel about the resurrection of Christ is…
How do you feel—how should you feel—about the resurrection of Christ? I hope you appreciate what a strange question that is to ask. First, it feels a little too contemporary. I say that because most everybody in our postmodern age…