Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Good Friday..... Easter Sunday

Here are the two images that I want to leave with you as we go into the Easter weekend.

The mouth of the Great Fish that Jesus said would swallow Him in death (as the prophet Jonah was swallowed by the whale)










Then we have the empty tomb in Jerusalem that Jesus said would be proof that the the belly of the fish had released its charge and that He was alive again.




Behold both views 1) From the outside of the tomb looking in.
                       
                                               2) From the inside of the tomb looking out.

Think about it.

"O GRAVE WHERE IS THY VICTORY? O DEATH WHERE IS THY STING? "

Hallelujah.

Ian











Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Easter:"The Bible" Miniseries.







The pundits have been amazed. The miniseries "The Bible" has racked up the largest viewing audience ever on the "History" channel.

Over ten million viewers will be tuned in this weekend to see Jesus crucified, buried and rise from the dead; a lot more than were there the first Easter!

Hand it to Hollywood, when they put on a biblical production there is no place for scepticism. Cecil B Mills made the Red Sea to open, God's finger to write the 10 commandments and water to gush out of the rock.

They have also found that there is a genuine, undeniable and ever-present yearning in the hearts of multiplied millions to see the REAL DEAL. 

People don't want  expurgated, emasculated, demythologised, air-brushed, reconstructed, anemic drivel from the studio of some modernist theologian.

"Give us the real thing" is the demand of the 21st century man and Hollywood is obliging.

 Later this year, Russel Crowe, as Noah, will lead the animals into the ark and Will Smith will portray the first man-slayer, Cain.

Now wouldn't that be something. Noah winning an Oscar next February!

Jubilate.

Ian


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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Cold Case Christianity.Hallucination or Revelation.







The kindest of the skeptics who challenge the accounts of the resurrection do not attribute criminal motives to the disciples.
They simply say that the eyewitnesses who saw Christ after rising from the dead only THOUGHT they saw Him.
In other words they were all under mass delusion. They wanted to believe that Christ was alive SO BADLY  that they MADE IT HAPPEN in their own minds.

Warner Wallace(Cold Case Christianity) agrees with the fact that some people do fool themselves but it is NEVER EVERYBODY who is fooled.

In the mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate cult in San Diego thirty nine people took the poison pill but one scrambled out of the back window and raised the alarm.

At Jones Town in Guyana the vast majority drank the Kool Aid and died with Jim Jones, but a few dozen headed for the jungle and fled for their lives.

In the Book of Acts there were 120 people gathered who had ALL personally met the Risen Lord. Their COMMON testimony was to be followed by the COMMON experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit. In His Power they set their world ablaze and the fire still burns today!

Hallelujah.

Ian