This article by Marshall Segal, with reflections on the prayer “Come, Lord Jesus” is wonderful. How grateful we are for God’s promise of resurrected bodies and renewed minds, with which we will be better able to glorify and enjoy Him forever. 

In our society many people look to cosmetic surgeries, implants, and other methods to remodel and renovate our crumbling bodies. We hold to youthfulness with a white-knuckled grip. Ultimately, it’s all in vain. But the gospel promises us eternal youthfulness, health, beauty, and happiness in the presence of our God and our spiritual family. It’s not ours now—but it will be, in the resurrection of the dead.

Strangely, though Jesus in His resurrected body proclaimed, “I am not a ghost” (Luke 24:39, NLT), countless Christians think they will be ghosts in the eternal Heaven. The magnificent, cosmos-shaking victory of Christ’s resurrection—by definition a physical triumph over physical death in a physical world—escapes them.

In this video, Randy speaks about looking forward to our resurrected bodies, which will never pass their peaks.

As you read these quotes from God’s Word and His people about the importance of Christ’s resurrection (excerpted from my book It’s All About Jesus) may your heart overflow with gratitude to Jesus.

This Easter weekend, may we celebrate the magnificent, cosmos-shaking victory of Christ’s physical resurrection, a real event that changed everything! 

Great question. On the one hand, given not only the Old Testament prophecies but also the direct statements of Jesus to the disciples regarding His coming resurrection, you would think the devil would have not been surprised. 

Malheureusement, cette idée que le Paradis sera ennuyeux est répandue, même parmi les chrétiens. Parfois, nous ne parvenons pas à imaginer que nous ferons bien plus que jouer de la harpe et polir des rues pavées d'or. Nous avons succombé aux stratagèmes de Satan qui nous pousse à « proférer des blasphèmes contre Dieu, pour insulter son nom et son tabernacle, ceux qui habitent dans le ciel. » (Apocalypse 13:6 Traduction Segond 21)

I listened to Sean McDowell’s interview with Lee Strobel, talking about how he as an atheist journalist came to believe in Jesus, through studying whether the resurrection of Jesus ever happened. I think it’s all great, but even if you don’t have time to watch it all, the first 11 minutes or so are terrific.