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At first, Jesus' disciples didn't believe that He had risen. They wanted physical evidence. Jesus gave them that, even offering Thomas the chance to touch His wounds. Yet when Jesus appeared to them with Thomas present, they were meeting behind locked doors. They were still afraid. Soon, however, they were preaching boldly in the face of persecution and, in some cases, death. Minister Aaron Hill tells listeners that Jesus blesses us as those who believe without having seen Him (John 20:2...

Toward the end of John 20, the disciples are struggling with unbelief. They can't quite believe the women who have told them Jesus has risen. Jesus appears to them and gives them peace, purpose, and the power to achieve that purpose. Minister Aaron Hill continues his series on the gospel of John as he discusses Jesus' conversation with the disciples in John 20:19-23.

Go!Imagine that God asked us to go somewhere. Not just down the street, not just to another neighborhood, not even just to another town. Imagine He tells us to go, but He doesn’t tell us where. We’ll have to trust Him with that. He asks us to go to a country He will show us, leaving all that we know behind. Could we do that? We would want a specific route or destination, wouldn’t we? Would we trust God to lead us along a path without comfort and security? Would we be questioning, “But, God?”&...

Throughout history people have tried to debunk Jesus' resurrection. It was staged, they say. His body was stolen by His disciples, they surmise. He was never dead, they propose. Yet the behavior of Jesus' disciples destroys these arguments. They run away. They hide. They grieve. They give up.As Minister Aaron Hill continues in John 20, we see Mary Magdalene weeping at the tomb. She has come there and found that Jesus' body is missing. She came there expecting to find His body! She thinks some...

Even though Jesus had told his disciples to expect it, they were not prepared for His resurrection. When He died on the cross, they thought it was over. Their hope was gone. Just as they would do for anyone else who died, they prepared Jesus for burial. They rushed to get through before the Sabbath began that Friday evening. They went to their homes no doubt in despair. The disciples didn't get it. They didn't expect Jesus to come back to life. Their honest accounts in the gospel reveal...

As we approach the end of the gospel of John, minister Aaron Hill focuses today's sermon on Jesus' crucifixion. Although the story of the crucifixion is a morbid one, we must realize that it was an event that was planned and foretold in multiple prophecies, and these were all written at least five hundred years before Jesus was on Earth. Jesus was crucified at Golgotha, the place of the skull, a public place. The crucifixion was not a hidden event. Historians Tacitus and Josephus both recorde...