If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.
Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.
The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.
The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.
The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.
Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.
So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.
The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.
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