The moment Charlie Kirk got through to Bill Maher and made him realize how “generous” Jesus Christ is.
KIRK: “Judgment is getting what you deserve. Mercy is getting less than what you deserve. Grace—”
MAHER: “Wait, wait. Mercy is getting less than what you deserve?”
KIRK: “Yeah, so we believe Jesus gives us grace. So you get a prison sentence, you get judgment, you get mercy, you get less of a prison sentence. Grace would be Jesus serving that prison sentence for you so you could live life eternal.”
MAHER: “Well, how is he serving that? Oh, you mean like in the big picture?”
KIRK: “Well, because we believe him living a perfect life and then suffering the death that he did on the cross was him atoning for our sins. The sins of humanity. Which is a big claim, albeit a very compelling one, which we also believe to be true. Because it redeems all of humanity of our short-falling of the glory of God.”
MAHER: “I gotta say, it’s really picking up the check for the whole table. I mean, you gotta give it to your boy. For all of our sins? It’s a very generous thing. Very generous!”
Astronaut Victor Glover delivers beautiful Easter message from space, praises God’s creation.
“When I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us…”
“You're on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe, in the cosmos.”
“In all of this emptiness, this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe, you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together…”
“The resurrection is everything. That’s like the staple of Christianity… Without the resurrection, there is no Christian…”
“[Jesus] changed everything about me… The way I talk, the way I treat other people… I’m really here to serve others”
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New Testament scholar Jeremiah Johnston explains why he believes the Shroud of Turin is authentic, tells story about how Jewish technical photographer Barrie Schwortz became convinced it was authentic.
"If you're a medieval forger, how are you gonna know about AB blood?"
"I believe that based on the evidence in the 102 academic disciplines that have studied over 600,000 research hours in it... I believe that because I'm not irrational."
"I went from skeptic to believing in it based on the science..."
"It is an itemized receipt of how much Jesus loves you."
Remarkable.
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This Easter, I invite you to look at Jesus, consider what he said and did, and ask for yourself what I believe is the most important question you will ever answer: Did he really leave behind an empty tomb? And if he did, what does that mean for you?
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CHARLIE KIRK: "Every person in this room will lose on their own against Satan. Myself included.
We're in the midst of this war, and some of us are trying to fight it for ourselves.
You've got to step out of the way and say, "Jesus, can you just take care of this, please?"
Right now the disciples were all in pure turmoil.
They had no idea our Lord was about to resurrect and save all of humanity from its sin.
Imagine having the opportunity to walk with Jesus Christ and then having to watch him be brutally beaten and killed by the synagogue of 👹 and there was nothing they could do about it.
They thought it was over but it was just the beginning.
I pray that tonight before we head into resurrection Sunday you take a moment to sit in the stillness of Gods presence and reflect and give glory to Him for all he has done for us.
The ultimate sacrifice.
We don’t deserve it and yet he loved us so much in our own mess that he did it anyway.
Love you all.
God bless.
So I watched "The Passion of the Christ" last night. And I am on my back deck tonight thinking.
Think about this.
In the movie, they have beaten him to near death and when they first take him to his cross, Jesus clings to it, and the thief chastised him for embracing his own cross. Mocking him for doing so.
Then Christ gave all he had to carry that cross which weighed as much as him.. They beat him while he did. It came to the point that his physical body couldn't carry it any longer, so a man was ordered to carry it with him. Yet Christ still clung to the cross.
Do you know why?
Because he knew at the other end of that short journey was OUR freedom. Not his.... OURS..... with every single step, with every drop of blood, with every single tear, he knew he was one moment closer to being at the right hand of the Father and his mission complete to free us all.
The man embraced the cross. Begged God to forgive the men nailing him to it. Begged God to forgive those that had beaten him with whips and canes and hammered a crown of thorns on his head.
He embraced it all.... for US......
And now, when times get hard and life gets even slightly uncomfortable, we claim that "God isn't listening and won't take my burden" as if we even know what a real burden is...
How many times would we cling to the proverbial cross for another and suffer as he did to free them from the pain? Would we ever do it at all? Maybe for our own child? Maybe?
As you lay down tonight, pray a prayer of thanks. Not for the normal things. Not tonight. Tonight, pray a special prayer of thanks that he held on to that cross and carried it as far as his mortal body would allow... because that took more dedication than any of us could give for anyone.
By the time you wake up in the morning, he will have risen, 2000 years ago. He will have beat death. 2000 years ago, all the sin you and I will ever commit was paid for because he clung to that cross like it was a lifeline.... not for him... But for you and me.