Book of the Month: Who Moved the Stone?

Summary:

     Albert H. Ross (who wrote under the pseudonym "Frank Morison") was a prolific writer during the late 1800's and staunchly skeptical of the Biblical claim that Christ rose from the dead. So he set out to disprove, in his mind, this irrational claim. Using the synoptic gospels, Ross retraced the events leading up to Christ’s death, burial, and supposed resurrection, trying to determine if the accounts are a faithful retelling of actual historical occurrences, or if they were fabricated some time after. Ross' discoveries shook not only his world, but that of thousands who read the result of his journey: a powerful book entitled Who Moved the Stone?.

The Messy Love of Easter - Guest Post

   The wonderful Belle from Seeing Everything Else agreed to do a guest post for this Easter. After reading, be sure to check out her blog here, for which she consistently posts encouraging and convicting articles. 

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Horrifying. Scandalous. These aren't the words we usually associate with Easter.

Our normal thoughts fall more along the lines of pastel flowers, cute chicks and bunnies, and Precious Moments kids kneeling gently beneath a brown ceramic cross.

And those are sweet. Those are cute. Those are clean. But they're wrong.

// Christian? //

Sitting amongst the cream of my generation

my soul was filled with lamentation.

Here, supposed Christians

flirt with temptations

display carnal affections

consider vain imaginations

lust for worldly commendations

seek ungodly occupations

forget Scriptural meditations

shirk Bible memorizations

reject sound admonitions

ignore godly exhortations

despise Biblical limitations

on the road of continual degradations

are these really Christians?

So to any reading my composition

let it be a call for self-examination.

Do I obey the Lord without indignation? 

Honor my God without fluctuation?

Serve my King without hesitation?

Love my Savior without reservation?

Cry out to Him amidst temptation?

Am I on the road of heavenly sanctification?

Am I truly a Christian?

"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?"

- 2 Corinthians 13:5