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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Too Good Not To Be True!

Psalm 133; John 20:19-31

"Doubting Thomas" we call him. Now, how would you like to be remembered throughout history? What adjective do you hope for? And suppose that one word stood for just one thing you did or said just one time in your whole life?

Thomas's one-time one thing, I think, was not so much skepticism as it was realism.

Sure, he did say, "I don't believe Jesus is alive again. I won't believe it! It's just too good to be true!"

But after all, he hadn't been there when Jesus showed up to sit a while with the disciples in that locked room on Easter evening. Not one of them had been expecting Jesus to be up and doing visitation, after they'd seen him die on a cross a couple days earlier.

So of course he was holding out for hard evidence. "Let me see him for myself, touch his wounds with my own hands!" Call it the scientific method.

And so, one week later, Jesus showed up again. This time Thomas was on hand. And the story took a most surprising turn.

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posted by Jack Buckley at 11:07 AM


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