A little about Easter....

Sorry, I have been absent for a few days on the blog. I was taking some time off - mentally. We had a fantastic Easter and a great time at church on Sunday. Check out http://www.tcc.org/ to listen to the Easter Message from our Pastor. It was great. I talked with the students this weekend about the Reason for the Resurrection. As we look at time like Easter when so many people are curious about why Jesus Did what He did it is important to seek to not only find answers but also ask the right questions. My passion is to understand Who God is and how we relate to Him in such a way that I will live my life according to what is true. When looking at the Bible we start with the assumption that there is a God and the Bible reveals who that God is. If you are someone who is struggling with believing there is a God, I would love to talk with you more about this (preferrably over a cup of coffee). I love getting into the logic and reasoning behind it.

Back to the Resurrection....

Here are 3 quick concepts to help us understand the Reason for the Resurrection.

Before you check out those concepts you can look at some books about how proofs of the resurrection.

1) The resurrection confirms that Jesus was who He said he was. It reveals what God did was true. If he would have stayed dead then he would have just been another good man, or prophet, who died. It showed that what He said and did was true.

2) The resurrection allows us to live a "transformed" (changed, new, metamophosized) life! Because Jesus is not dead He has the power to help us live in the way God designed for us.

3) The resurrection gives us hope for the future. Because Jesus is now living with God and He didn't die again, we can know that there is life after this world and we die on earth. There is a hope that we can hold on to.

Please take some time this week to think about how our life would be different if we lived like we really believed the resurrection happened or how would it be different if we lived like we didn't believe that it happened.

If you want to talk more about this I do love talking about how the Bible can make sense to people. It is full of questions on life and death and we owe it to ourselves to to seek out the answers and look to ask the right questions.