I love hearing those stories that J.John shared about people who didn’t believe in God who actually set out to disprove Christianity and ended up becoming believers. Their teachings are coherent and do not look like the invention of unstable men. How can I Identify the Messianic Prophecies in the Old Testament? He knew it was an intellectual stretch for them (and for us) to believe that He was alive even when they had seen His lifeless body on that cross. Our first evidence of the resurrection, therefore, is that Jesus himself spoke of it. Or donate and request that CD at focusonthefamily.com/broadcast. Change is endemic. Driving them home would require articles for each point. If you had a hundred teenagers in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was told that God would use one of them to bring the gospel to millions, you could not have picked him out. And there are things I should’ve done, but I didn’t do. Luke 24:25-26,44; Acts 8:30-39). The problem is that if God does not exist, there is absolutely no standard by which to call child torture “evil”. 2. “Are you kidding? J.John: You and I cannot alter the past, but we can bring the past to the altar of God. Jim: And you know, he was determined to stop the Jesus followers, to rid the world of this sect called Christianity that was doing damage to the Jewish orthodoxy. As professor of mathematics and leading cosmological theorist Dr. George Ellis has said, the universe has “Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this [complexity] possible. He said, “Annie, how did you know where to put all the squares?” She said, “Well, when you were cutting the map out, I looked on the other side and I saw a picture of a man and a woman and I thought, if I could put the man and the woman back together again, I could put the world back together again.” (Laughter and Applause)The heart of the human problem is the problem is the human heart. Its power to cross cultures and create one new people of God was a strong testimony of its truth. What Proof Do You Have That Jesus Is the Messiah? So – so, when the kettle’s boiling, He’s in there having a sauna. Reasons To Believe In Jesus If you have any questions or need help finding a particular video, tract, book or any other Christian resource in any language of the world, please contact brianformissions@gmail.combrianformissions@gmail.com Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again” (Mark 8:31; see also Matthew 17:22; Luke 9:22). And then he goes, this is what he said, “But personally I believe Christianity is a crutch.” And I looked at him and I thought, “I hope you break your legs.” (Laughter) Random thought, random thought, random thought. 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