If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus’ resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn’t life after death – it’s life after life after death.

Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

It is a matter of glimpsing that in God's new creation, of which Jesus's resurrection is the start, all that was good in the original creation is reaffirmed. All that has corrupted and defaced it--including many things which are woven so tightly in to the fabric of the world as we know it that we can't imagine being without them--will be done away. Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.