Here are just some notes I've got from a weekend away with my church looking at the faithfulness of God, tracing it through the BIble. It really is great and has important implications for us too.

Did Jesus of Nazareth really rise from the dead?

In his first letter to the Corinthian church, Paul writes that ‘if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile’. He adds a bit later that if this is the case, Christians ‘are to be pitied more than all men’. In other words, if Jesus was not raised from the dead, Christianity is useless; a waste of time. Worse, we’ve lied about God and misled others.

But why is this the case? Some contend that the resurrection is difficult enough to believe: surely there must be something left for the faith if it didn’t happen? In this article I’ll try to explore why the resurrection is so central to Christianity, and why, if we look at the evidence, it isn’t as impossible as it seems.