Philippians 4:13 Why did Jesus fold the linen burial cloth after His resurrection? The Gospel of John (20:7) tells us that the napkin, which was placed over the face of Jesus, was not just thrown aside like the grave clothes. The Bible takes an entire verse to tell us that the napkin was neatly folded…

Unknown Author A friend of mine sent me this. I have wondered this myself several times but not knowing typical Jewish homelife I never knew the siginificance. Why did Jesus fold the linen burial cloth after His resurrection? The Gospel of John (John 20:7) tells us that the napkin,which was placed over…

Tony Campolo tells the story of a black Baptist preacher in the inner city of Philadelphia who preached a sermon Tony says he'll never forget. Tony preached first. He was "hot," so "hot" he says, that he even stopped and listened to himself. He sat down and said to his pastor: "Now see if you can top…

The defining event of the NT is the resurrection of Christ. Jesus, the Lamb of God, died at 3:00 PM (9th hour). This was the same exact time when the lamb was sacrificed in the Temple. Traditionally the priest would blow the shofar at this time to let the whole city know that the lamb died for their…

One person said, “I would say that if you don’t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you’re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.” “Ok,” you might say, “Guess I would agree with that. What…

RESURRECTION Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. —John 5:25 5020 Raleigh’s Trust After Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded in the tower they found in his Bible these true and striking lines, written…

His Hands Are Re-Forming The Potter’s skillful hands re-form as well as form us. Remember the potter from Jeremiah 18. When he saw that the vessel seemed marred, he squeezed the clay into a new lump and started to re-form it. Sometimes we think we’re unusable and even unredeemable. We’ve done something…

A Christian School teacher asked her class the week before Easter if they knew what happened on Easter and why it was so important. One little girl spoke up saying: "Easter is when the whole family gets together, and you eat turkey and sing about the pilgrims and all that." "No, that's not it," said…

And it changed Frank Morison. He was an English journalist who scorned Christianity so much he decided to disprove it. He knew that if he could disprove the resurrection as no more than myth, he could destroy the Christian religion. So he went to work. He poured over the evidence, trying to absorb all…

Charles Borromeo, the famous bishop of Milan, ordered a painter who was about to draw a skeleton with a scythe over a sepulcher to substitute for it the golden key of Paradise. Truly this is a most fitting emblem for a believer’s tomb, for what is death but the key of heaven to the Christian? We notice…

A transcript "Here we are on Easter Sunday at Hillsong Church and what a wonderful day. It is the day that Jesus rose from the dead. If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead then every Church spire, Cathedral spire is a sepulcher. But if Jesus Christ did rise from the dead that means everything he said, everything…

RESURRECTION Who would you say is the most skilled lawyer of all times? According to the Guinness Book of Word Records, it is Sir Lionel Luckhoo, the winningness lawyer in the world with 245 straight murder acquittals. You would think that a lawyer with his track record would possess superior investigative…

A Sunday School teacher had just finished telling her third graders about how Jesus was crucified and placed in a tomb with a great stone sealing the opening. Then, wanting to share the excitement of the resurrection, she asked: "And what do you think were Jesus’ first words when He came bursting out…

Alan Sinclair does not want his death to be permanent. After he dies, his blood will be flushed from his body and replaced with antifreeze. Technicians will then cool the body with dry ice and fly it to a cryonics center in Michigan. The center will keep it at minus 320 degrees. When a solution is found…

If you were a person who rented out tombs and you were checking your Registry to see if you had a vacancy, this is what you would find:[1] * Confucius' tomb: occupied. * Buddha's tomb: occupied. * Mohammed's tomb: occupied. * Jesus' tomb: empty -------------------------------- [1] Bible Illustrator,…

The reputed tomb of Jesus Christ is underneath the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem’s Old City. On October 28, 2016, conservationists, who were working to restore the tomb, found what researchers think is the original limestone burial bed of Jesus. Most researchers believe that the identification…

He wrote in advance the epitaph to be on his gravestone: “The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here … Yet the Work itself shall not be lost; for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and…

Well over three hundred verses are concerned with the subject of Jesus' resurrection in the New Testament. We are told that this event is a sign for unbelievers (Matthew 12:38-40); cf. John 20:24-29) as well as the answer for the believer's doubt (Luke 24:38-43). It serves as the guarantee that Jesus'…

While visiting the grave of a loved one, a woman in Brazil was given the shock of her life. She was laying flowers when a man started digging himself out of a neighboring grave. “The mourner heard some strange moaning and noticed the soil moving around in a neighboring plot.” The woman ran off and called…

(Communion Meditation) Robert F. Hull Jr. Mark 14:35-36; Mark 14:50; In a powerful sermon, Fred Craddock points out that only the reader of Mark’s Gospel really sees Jesus in Gethsemane lying prostrate on the ground and hears him praying for the hour to pass from him (Mark 14:35, 36). Peter, James, and…

The staff at a funeral home in Mississippi says Walter Williams woke up and surprised them. Authorities say the local coroner examined Williams about 9 PM and pronounced him dead because he had no pulse. When William’s body was taken to a local funeral home later than night, workers were getting ready…

The Empty Egg Jeremy was born with a twisted body and a slow mind. At the age of 12, he was still in second grade, seemingly unable to learn. His teacher, Doris Miller, often became exasperated with him. He would squirm in his seat, drool, and make grunting noises. At other times, he spoke clearly and…

A Russian man who was declared dead after he drank too much vodka at a party woke up to find himself in a morgue. A police spokesman said the man screamed when he regained consciousness in the mortuary freezer attracting the attention of staff. After he was released he quickly returned to the party,…

Sunday is a comin’! (by S.M. Lockridge)

Nothing "What's all the fuss about?" the skeptic asked. "What are you Christians celebrating anyway?" "Nothing," I responded, absolutely "nothing." The angel of the Lord proclaimed: "He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. Come, see the place where He was lying." (Matthew 28:6 NASB) "Nothing"…