The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.

The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all.

I have found on Alpha that those from an essentially enlightened background feel at home with the parts of the course which appeal to the mind, but often have difficulty in experiencing the Holy Spirit. Others coming from the New Age movement find that rational and historical explanations leave them cold, but at the weekend away they are on more familiar territory in experiencing the Holy Spirit

You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else's.

Physical heat sometimes accompanies the filling of the Spirit and people experience it in their hands or some other part of their bodies. One person described a feeling of 'glowing all over'. Another said she experienced 'liquid heat'. Still another described 'burning in my arms when I was not hot'.

I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.