Sermons

What if the Dead Are Not Raised? (1 Corinthians 15:12-19)

 

15:12. The Stoic philosopher Seneca in the first century said that at death ‘I will leave my body, and myself I will give back to the gods.’ Francis Schaeffer was adept at ‘lifting the lid’ off arguments.

  1. It would mean that Christ is not raised.
    • 15:13. A. C. Swinburne:
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Sermons

Weak Arguments From The Guards (Matt. 27:62-66; 28:2-4, 11-15)

 

Is this like the six supposed appearances to three young Portuguese shepherds of the Virgin Mary in 1917?

The women are afraid, then joyful; the guards are afraid, then corrupt.

  1. What actually happened.
    • 27:62-66; 28:2-4. There had been an earthquake, there was an angel (Luke and John both say
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Sermons

Women Witnesses: ‘He Has Risen!’ (Matt. 28:1-10)

 

Verse 6a is the key text; it is just one word in Greek: ‘He has risen’.

  1. The women were loving but not comprehending.
    • 28:1. Matthew names Mary Magdalene and the other Mary (see 27:56); Mark adds Salome (Mark 16:1); Luke adds Joanna plus others, making at least five (Luke
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