Good Friday and Easter Links

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I wanted to put up a few links to resources on the meaning of the Good Friday and Easter holidays.


Some good books on historical evidence for Christ’s resurrection can be found here, here, and here.

William Lane Craig gives a tight argument for the resurrection on video here.

Some good books on the meaning of the cross are here, here, and here.

Some good books on the applications of the cross and the resurrection to our lives are here and here.

A post on what to preach about on Easter Morning is here. Russell Moore laments the standard far of church pulpits and calls us back to preaching the cross.

J. I. Packer comments on the Cross and Christ’s love here.

Happy Easter everyone!

Comments

Anonymous said…
Just another vague handwaive towards some books only believers find convincing without referencing any particualr arguments you found enlightening.

No contemporary sources either.

You would think with the mass zombie outbreak going on at that time someone would have noticed and written it down. Something a little more weighty than some word of mouth short stories collected by an itinerant charismatic preacher.
April 23, 2011
Anonymous said…
Happy Zombie Uprising Day.

Matthew 27.

51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

Zombie mini-apocalypses must happen often enough in that part of the world that they’re not even worth recording. Come on! No one else even mentions it! I gotta hand it to whoever wrote the book of Matthew for having the foresight to include this enlightening event in the most infallible book ever written. If it hadn’t been for him, we’d only have one zombie stumbling around on Easter Sunday.
April 24, 2011
J. K. Jones said…
Interesting.

Sunny D, is that you?

Please note that all books linked to in the section in question are current.

And, by the way, there is allot of difference between a resurrected body and a zombie. We can discuss if you would like to remain civil.
April 24, 2011
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