Entwistle Community Church
5237 50 street T0E 0s0 Entwistle, AB, Canada

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Easter Sunday service times 9am,10:30am & 12:30pm. We will be live @ 10:30am. Registration required https://rsvp.church/r/wPdDD0AJ Adults link - https://entwistlecommunitychurch.com/service Children's link -https://entwistlecommunitychurch.com/childrens-online-worsh... Live Service @ 10:30 links below Facebook users can use the link below https://www.facebook.com/EntwistleChurch/ YouTube users can use the link below https://youtube.com/playlist

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Good Friday In-person & Online Service Good Friday Service times 6:00PM & 7:30PM We will be live @ 7:30PM https://entwistlecommunitychurch.com/service Facebook users can use the link below https://www.facebook.com/EntwistleChurch... YouTube users can use the link below https://youtube.com/playlist See more

HOLY WEEK REFLECTION https://vimeo.com/89420081

HOLY WEEK REFLECTION https://vimeo.com/89420035

A more in-depth summary of some of the evidences for the Resurrection I have been posting through this week.

HOLY WEEK REFLECTIONS https://vimeo.com/89651201

Accounts of the Resurrection include inconvenient and unflattering details, that make most sense as attempts to reliably record what had happened, free from embellishment. They do not fit expectations of a fabricated account. For example, women are the first witnesses of the Resurrection. In a culture that did not admit the testimony of a woman as valid evidence in court, this detail is surprising. Likewise, all the disciples, the leaders of the early Church, flee as cowards when Jesus is taken. - S. JOSHUA SWAMIDASS

HOLY WEEK REFLECTIONS https://vimeo.com/89117797

In the very place where Jesus died and was buried there was an explosion of growth in the Christian movement which was centred on the claim that the grave was empty and that Jesus had truly risen. This explosion of growth happened mere weeks after the death and resurrection of Jesus in the place where He died. The growth happened in the face of hostility, opposition and persecution from civil and religious leaders. - GEORGE SINCLAIR After Jesus’ violent death, His followers... were frightened and scattered. Then, something happened that grew a strong, bold, and confident belief that resisted sustained, murderous opposition. Unlike other movements with executed leaders, once they came back together they did not replace Jesus with one of his family members. Their resistance was entirely non-violent and devoid of political power. Yet they were all suddenly willing to die for what they saw. What changed them? Why was there not evidence at the time to undermine their belief? What convinced them that Jesus was inconceivably greater than his family? - S. JOSHUA SWAMIDASS See more

With dates established by radiometric analysis, prophecies from centuries before Jesus’ birth predict his life, death, and resurrection. The great scientist Blaise Pascal identifies this as the tangible proof for people who want evidence that God exists. These prophecies include specific details that Jesus and His followers could not control. For example, before the Romans invented crucifixion, Psalms 22:16 described the piercing of Jesus’ hands and feet. Isaiah 53 is a pa...rticularly important prophecy that lays out the story of Jesus and the meaning of the Resurrection (Isaiah 52:13-53:12). Is this evidence of an Intelligence outside our time confirming Jesus’ authority? The early accounts of the Resurrection and prophecies predicting it were reliably transmitted through history. As of 2014, more than 66,000 early manuscripts are known, orders of magnitude more than other ancient texts. Many are carbon dated to before Jesus’ time on earth and the first few centuries after. We see accounts nearly unaltered in the earliest manuscripts. A pattern of consistency emerges. There are variations in the manuscripts, but nothing invalidates the reliability of the Resurrection accounts. - S. JOSHUA SWAMIDASS

There are four ancient biographies of Jesus. They were all written by eyewitnesses and/or based on eyewitness testimony. They were written and circulated while many other eyewitnesses were still alive. These biographies all say that Jesus rose from the dead. These biographies are supplemented by letters written by eyewitnesses while many other eyewitnesses were still alive. These ancient letters claim that Jesus died by crucifixion and that on the third Jesus rose from the de...ad. Pagan and Jewish writers report that Christians believed Jesus rose from the dead. Many of the principal eyewitnesses to the resurrection of Jesus died because of their claim that Jesus was resurrected. Their lives would probably have been spared if they recanted. This is very significant. We know that people will die for a cause. But these men and women died for a set of facts. They went to their grave rather than say that the facts were untrue. They died because they said the facts of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus were true. There are (not counting Paul), eleven recorded times that Jesus appeared to people proving that He was resurrected. These appearances were to: men and women, individuals, couples, groups, and at least one crowd. The appearances were inside and outside, in different locations, and at different times of the day. He was physically touched, audibly heard, visually seen, and He ate food in the presence of witnesses. None of these witnesses believed that Jesus would rise from the dead before He rose from the dead. All of them knew him before His death, so they knew He was the same Jesus who died on the cross. - GEORGE SINCLAIR

As we continue our celebration of Easter I am going to post some evidential statements that grow our trust and perk our curiosity of the historicity of Jesus' Resurrection. Hopefully they help you in your own faith and in your engagement with others. Here is the first thought: "Without the physical Resurrection, two thousand years of history are left begging for explanation, like a movie missing a key scene. No other event in all recorded history has reached so far across n...ational, ethnic, religious, linguistic, cultural, political, and geographic borders. The message spread with unreasonable success across the world. During just the first few centuries, it spread without political or military power, prevailing against the ruthless efforts of dedicated, organized and violent opposition. How did a small band of disempowered Jews in an occupied and insignificant territory of ancient Rome accomplish this unequaled act? What happened so many years ago that reframed all human history?" - S. JOSHUA SWAMIDASS See more