My Redeemer Lives

“On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.” John 20:19-20

In 1954, during his historic crusade in London, Billy Graham had a private meeting with Winston Churchill.

Graham shared the gospel with the famous statesman, and Churchill became a Christ-follower. We can see this in the way the Prime Minister planned his own funeral.

According to his instructions, two buglers were positioned high in the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral. At the conclusion of the service, the first one played taps, the signal of a day completed. Immediately thereafter, with the sounds of the first song still ringing in the air, the second bugler played reveille, the song of a day begun.

Churchill made these plans to proclaim the fact that for the Christian death is not an alley with no exit but rather a thoroughfare from Earth to Heaven!

The brightest day in human history is the Jesus Resurrected! Death could not hold Him, and this means life in eternity for us as well.

“Belief in the Resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith; it is the Christian faith.” – John S. Whale

“While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, ‘Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.’” – Luke 24:36-39