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RESURRECTION AND REDEMPTION

by Jeff Schreve

Scripture: Mark 16:1-8


Title: Resurrection and Redemption
Author: Jeff Schreve
Text: Mark 16:1-8

Lee Strobel was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. He had a degree in journalism. He had a degree in law from Yale Law School. He was an avowed atheist. He married a girl named Leslie. She was an agnostic. They were living life, had two kids, just living for sin and for self. Lee said since he didn't believe in God, he was just trying to find all the pleasures he could out of life, leading a very hedonistic, selfish, self-centered, pleasure-seeking life. Well, one day something horrible happened, horrible in Lee's mind. His wife, Leslie, went to church and became a Christian. Horrors to Lee. That was the worst. "How could my wife do this, become a Christian? I can't live with a Christian. I'm an atheist. I know that God doesn't exist." He went to church with her to see if he could pull her out the "cult" that she was in, this Christian cult. And he said after that first time at church, he made the decision, well, I just need to show her that this Christianity stuff is wrong. I need to show you that this is just a lie. This is just a bunch of baloney. And so, he started on this quest to disprove Christianity. And a friend of his said, "Well, listen, Lee. If you want to disprove Christianity, all you have to do is attack the resurrection of Jesus. If you can show that the resurrection of Jesus is a lie, is a fabricated lie, then Christianity will fall like a house of cards, because everything hinges on the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." So, for the next year and nine months, Lee Strobel went on a quest to disprove the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And at the end of one year and nine months Lee Strobel gave his life to Jesus Christ! He said, "It is beyond a doubt that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. I can't get past the evidence." And he gave his life to Christ. He wrote the book, The Case for Christ, in 2007. Ten years later, they turned it into a m ...

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