Christ Our Resurrection Hope

If you ask people on the street what they believe about God and the afterlife, you’re likely to get a wide variety of answers. But an important follow-up question you should ask is, “Why do you believe that?” On this program the hosts will listen to and interact with a number of on-the-street interviews dealing […]

Countless skeptics in our day continue to claim that the New Testament gospels were written long after Jesus’ crucifixion, and that, as a result, the life of Jesus was embellished over time. The real Jesus, they say, may have been a nice teacher or political revolutionary, but by the time the story was written he […]

In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul says that Christ was raised on the third day “according to the Scriptures.” On this program the hosts will begin an exploration of the Old Testament background of the doctrine of the resurrection. How did the ancient Jewish view of the afterlife differ from the views of their contemporaries? What […]

On this program the hosts continue to explore the doctrine of the resurrection throughout the Old Testament Scriptures. What did the prophets say about the afterlife and the general resurrection of the dead? More importantly, what did they teach about the role of the coming messiah? Did they really predict that he would die for […]

How can we be sure that the various claims about Jesus recorded in the four gospels represent genuine eyewitness reports, and how can we be sure that they were written in the crucial eyewitness period? For the next three programs Mike will discuss these questions and more with professor Michael Licona, author of The Resurrection of […]

On this program we’re airing Part 2 of Mike’s conversation with professor Michael Licona, author of The Resurrection of Jesus. The two scholars continue their discussion about the eyewitness character of the four gospels and unpack a host of issues relating to the historical reliability and early dating of the New Testament epistles.

Over the past two weeks we’ve aired Mike’s conversation with Professor Michael Licona, author of The Resurrection of Jesus, and on this program we’re presenting the third and final segment of this exchange. This episode focuses on issues relating to the discrepancies between the various gospel accounts of Christ’s resurrection along with a number of commonly-held objections.

How do you explain the cross to someone who has no category for sin, atonement, or sacrifice? Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Walter Strickland, and Bob Hiller tackle the most common objections to Christianity’s central claims, from the “barbaric” nature of penal substitution to skeptics who dismiss the resurrection as legend or borrowed mythology, and more.

Richard Dawkins displays little knowledge of Christian theology. However, he is spot-on when he summarizes, “Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.” It’s interesting that the pioneers of early modern science were orthodox Christians who were especially allergic to occult forces within […]

All good things must come to an end, or at least so they say. With the release of their fourth volume, Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley have brought their mammoth project of *Reformed Systematic Theology* to completion. This final installment now brings this […]

“God isn’t going to throw away your body, but he’s not going to just improve it. It’s not a better you. It’s a new creation.”