Illustration: David Seamands tells of a Muslim in Africa who became a Christian When his friends asked him why he made that decision he told them Suppose you were going down a road and suddenly the road forked i... (Read More...)

Illustration: Freezing dead people until future medicine can revive them Dora Kent 83 in nursing home; devoted son Saul didn't want her to disappear forever so he went to Alcor Life Extension Foundation They cut... (Read More...)

Illustration: Let's just say they have abnormal beliefs in the power of healing -- Knox County Ill Sheriff Mark Shearer on a family that tended a mummified corpse for eight years (Read More...)

Illustration: Book by Gail Giorgio claims Elvis is still alive and grows beards to be unrecognized Has been sighted in a Burger King in Kalamazoo Michigan Book includes a tape by Elvis (Read More...)

Illustration: The people around Lagos Nigeria called him Jesus of Oyingbo He called himself Immanuel the Christ Father Abraham and the Light of God His birth certificate called him Olufunmilayo Odumosu 38 years ... (Read More...)

Illustration: Religious parties in Israel gained in 1988 election Hasidic Rabbi Menachem Schneerson 86 of Brooklyn N Y is the revered leader of the populist Lubavitcher movement which promotes old-fashioned dres... (Read More...)

Illustration: Victorian period people were so afraid of being buried alive they bought grave flags that had a cord inserted in the casket If they were accidentally buried and then revived they would yank on th... (Read More...)

Illustration: When the noted preacher Phillip Brooks was recovering from an illness and was denying himself to all visitors Robert G Ingersoll the agnostic called The Bishop received him at once I appreciate... (Read More...)

Illustration: Winston Churchill had planned his funeral which took place in Saint Paul's Cathedral He included many of the great hymns of the church and used the eloquent Anglican liturgy At his direction a bu... (Read More...)

Illustration: In March 1992 Newsweek magazine mentioned a letter from the Greenville County S C Dept of Social Services The letter was written to a dead person It read Your food stamps will be stopped effect... (Read More...)

Illustration: Nicole Coffman doesn t remember much about last Easter except it was fun We had to pick up the men and say He is risen the third-grader said It was fun because we got to pick up a lot of them ... (Read More...)

Illustration: DID CHRIST REALLY DIE According to the Word of God yes He really died Those who claim this was not true have several different explanations as to what could have happened that made it appear ... (Read More...)

Illustration: Dr E Stanley Jones the famous missionary wrote a charming and delightful autobiography called A Song of Ascents He tells about a layman a newspaperman and mutual friend who was called upon to condu... (Read More...)

Illustration: Death is not death if you know the Lord It is merely a change of place a change of state and a transferal from one realm of existence into another Death is not death if it kills no part of us e... (Read More...)

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Illustration: In his Easter sermon Victory for Us Earl Palmer shows by an analogy from the Winter Olympics that Christ won a victory not only for himself but also for us The high point of the Olympics from a sen... (Read More...)

Illustration: Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed Jesus said to doubting Thomas after silencing his doubts with tangible proof of the Easter miracle Except for the five hundred or so peopl... (Read More...)

Illustration: RESURRECTION From The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey Zondervan 1995 That Jesus succeeded in changing a snuffling band of unreliable followers into fearless evangelists that eleven men who... (Read More...)

Illustration: These are the results of a Creative Scientific Theories Contest sponsored by Omni magazine GRAND PRIZE WINNER When a cat is dropped it always lands on its feet And when toast is dropped it al... (Read More...)

Illustration: Surprising Answers Mark Aites In the March 29 1999 issue of the NEWSWEEK magazine the following questions were asked and answers were given Do you think Jesus Christ ever actually lived ... (Read More...)

Illustration: -E-arly one morning -A- long time ago -S-ome faithful women -T-o Jesus' tomb did go -E-mpty they found it -R-isen was He - Risen for you and me --Unknown (Read More...)

Illustration: The best news the world has ever had came from a graveyard near Jerusalem - Unknown (Read More...)

Illustration: A Methodist minister was continually bragging to his Baptist minister friends about the greatness of his church No matter what they said he always found a way to claim that the Methodists were bett... (Read More...)

Illustration: There was a story in the newspaper in a small town in southern Massachusetts back in 1992 about a man named Robert Oliver It seems that on a beautiful summer afternoon the hospital called the Olive... (Read More...)

Illustration: BURIED According to a Persian legend when God created the earth it was barren and without any sign of life In due time God sent out an angel to scatter all sorts of seeds over the face of the ea... (Read More...)

Illustration: A REMOTE HOPE A few years ago a young man in the metropolitan New York area took a step before his death at 24 which he thought would safeguard his future Upon his death Steven arranged to have h... (Read More...)

Illustration: Every year thousands of people climb a mountain in the Italian Alps passing the stations of the cross to stand at an outdoor crucifix One tourist noticed a little trail that led beyond the cross ... (Read More...)

Illustration: In a cemetery in Hanover Germany is a grave on which were placed huge slabs of granite and marble cemented together and fastened with heavy steel clasps It belongs to a woman who did not believe in... (Read More...)

Illustration: Bucharest--A Romanian woman fainted recently when she opened her front door and found her husband standing there The Romanian weekly Tinerama says it all started when a man named Neagu choked ... (Read More...)

Illustration: Passing by a house a short time since I noticed the sign This House For Rent How is this Is the former tenant dead I asked Oh no sir said the caretaker; he has moved to a larger house in a bette... (Read More...)

Illustration: Larevellere Lepeaux once confided to Talleyrand his chagrin He had labored to bring into vogue a sort of improved Christianity which should be both a benevolent and a rational religion With expre... (Read More...)

Illustration: One warm spring afternoon near Easter a teacher gave a large plastic egg to each of her students Then she sent them outside to find signs of life and put them inside their egg Soon they return... (Read More...)

Illustration: A man was going down a street when in a store window he saw a very beautiful picture of the crucifixion As he gazed spellbound at the vividly pictured story he suddenly became conscious that at h... (Read More...)

Illustration: On one occasion Michelangelo turned to his fellow artists and said with frustration in his voice Why do you keep filling gallery after gallery with endless pictures on the one theme of Christ in ... (Read More...)

Illustration: Now there was about this time Jesus a wise man if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure He drew over to him... (Read More...)

Illustration: When the Garden Tomb was discovered in 1885 the godly General Gordon was convinced that this was the place where the body of Jesus had lain There is a traditional tomb inside the wall of modern ... (Read More...)

Illustration: Danton a leader of the French Revolution on his way to the guillotine said to his companions on the scaffold Our heads will meet in yonder sack That is the outlook on life if there is no resurre... (Read More...)

Illustration: The following story taken from the December 1945 Reader's Digest also tells of a possible escape from the death by hanging However this story better illustrates how through clever inventions the wi... (Read More...)

Illustration: I was at the hospital in Columbus IN during the surgery of one of the members of my church when his sister-it-law shared the following story She said that she suffers for allergies and when ... (Read More...)

Illustration: On April 15 1993 a young mother with AIDS addressed the National Press Club She told the following story On the day the late tennis star Arthur Ashe died Andrew Young called Mrs Ashe to off... (Read More...)

Illustration: Hugh Schonfield's Passover Plot in one of the literary attempts to explain away the events of the crucifixion and the resurrection But it like all the others relies on that ancient lie circulate... (Read More...)

Illustration: 1 Christ the Lord is risen today Alleluia Earth and heaven in chorus say Alleluia Raise your joys and triumphs high Alleluia Sing ye heavens and earth reply Alleluia 2 Lives again our glor... (Read More...)

Illustration: 1 Crown him with many crowns the Lamb upon his throne Hark how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own Awake my soul and sing of him who died for thee and hail him as thy match... (Read More...)

Illustration: The first Easter was a day that changed everything What happened The earliest written account of the Resurrection comes from Saint Paul He wrote these words when there were thousands of persons sti... (Read More...)

Illustration: According to Dr E R Bull a Methodist missionary to the Ryuku Islands of Japan a huge grave has been discovered on the Island of Amakusa where a marker states that the heads of 11 111 Christians are... (Read More...)

Illustration: As a young man D L Moody was called upon to suddenly to preach a funeral sermon He hunted all through out the Four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons but searched in vain He fou... (Read More...)

Illustration: Plenty of great teachers mystics martyrs and saints have spoken words full of grace and truth In the case of Jesus alone however the belief has persisted that when he came into the world God deigne... (Read More...)

Illustration: All these questions have the same answer What is it that gives a widow courage as she stands beside a fresh grave What is the ultimate hope of the cripple the amputee the abused the burn vict... (Read More...)

Illustration: The resurrection of Jesus Christ took place on the first day of the week following the Jewish Passover or Pesach In the early church the annual celebration came to be known as the Passover or Pesac... (Read More...)

Illustration: 1 God sent His Son they called Him Jesus He came to love heal and forgive; He lived and died to buy my pardon An empty grave is there to prove my Saviour lives Chorus Because He lives ... (Read More...)