No-one has ever been able to lay down his life and take it up again as Jesus did.

The word ‘apologia’ is used in Scripture, not in the sense of an apology, but rather, as meaning a defense. This is important because people today are becoming ‘out of touch’ with the vital part of the Christian message. Apologetics and the gospel go hand in hand. It gets obstacles out of the way so that people can clearly understand the ‘good news’. By far the strongest reason for the truth of the gospel is the resurrection … to which these passages refer.

The apostle Peter’s early sermon appeals to the resurrection …’we are witnesses of that fact’. The one thing that distinguishes Christ from all those who preceded him is the resurrection … ‘You killed the author of life but God raised Him from the dead’. Peter saw this with his own eyes. The resurrection is one of the most documented incidents in human history. It turned the disciples from a defeated discouraged group into fearless witnesses and martyrs for the faith.