Risen: 50 Reasons Why the Resurrection Changed Everything
What would happen if believers truly grasped how the
resurrection of Jesus changes not just their own standing with God,
but that it changes everything? In the spirit of John Piper's
Fifty Reasons Why Christ Came to Die, Steven D. Mathewson
unpacks the New Testament Scriptures that speak of the reasons
Jesus was raised from the dead.
In fifty brief chapters, he offers readers faith-filled meditations
on the primary passages on the resurrection, taking these ancient
truths and applying them to contemporary life. With compelling
insight, he shows why Jesus not only had to die, but why his
resurrection was necessary and how our lives change when we
understand and embrace this essential truth of the Christian
faith.
From the Back Cover
The resurrection doesn't just change your standing with
God.
It changes everything.
Have you ever wondered why it's important that Jesus didn't just
die on the cross but also rose again? In fifty brief chapters,
Risen answers your questions and offers faith-filled
meditations on the resurrection, taking these ancient truths and
applying them to contemporary life. With compelling insight, Steven
Mathewson shows not only why Jesus had to die but why his
resurrection was necessary--and how our lives change when we
understand and embrace this essential truth of the Christian
faith.
Top Highlights
“Jesus’s resurrection—and the promised resurrection of his followers—refers to a rising from the dead into a new kind of bodily existence not marred by sickness, aging, deterioration, or death.[8] Resurrection is more than resuscitation—coming back to life in the same kind of physical existence as before death. Resurrection is not disembodied existence, becoming an angel, or reincarnation.[9] Nor does the Bible teach annihilation—the view that you experience no life of any kind once you die but rather simply cease to exist. Resurrection, as we will see, involves a body. The immaterial part of believers, which continues to exist after death, is reunited with a new body.” (source)
“live out this new identity by choosing God over sin.” (source)
“In the movie Braveheart, William Wallace got it right when he said, ‘Every man dies, not every man really lives.’[10] Yes, this is a fact of life. Everyone dies. But not everyone truly lives. While you cannot change your appointment with death, you can ensure that you live before you die—and live after you die. Jesus is the one who makes this possible, because he is the resurrection and the life.” (source)
“The apostle Peter uses this image to make a key point about Jesus’s resurrection, declaring that death could not hold on to Jesus any more than a pregnant woman can hold her unborn child in her body.” (source)
“Christians will experience complete healing when the time comes for God to restore everything. Until then, we live in the times of refreshing.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Risen: 50 Reasons Why the Resurrection Changed Everything
- Authors:
- Mathewson, Steven D.
- Blomberg, Craig
- Publisher: Baker
- Publication Date: 2013
- ISBN: 9781441240347
Steven D. Mathewson (DMin, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is senior pastor of the Evangelical Free Church of Libertyville, Illinois. He is an adjunct faculty member at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Moody Bible Institute and also teaches in the Doctor of Ministry program at Denver Seminary. The author of The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative, which received the Christianity Today merit award and the Preaching magazine Book of the Year award, Mathewson lives in Illinois.