We have descended into hell together and Christ has gone before us, into every corner of it. The good news is that when life takes us there, when we have to go there, he goes with us.” “The good news, ...

‘Raised With Christ’ highlights the neglected central event of our faith. Raised With Christ: How the Resurrection Changes Everything by Adrian Warnock Crossway Books, January 2010 272 pp ...

His message is something like this: "If you were raised with Christ, you have a super, ever-redeemable coupon." Paul believed that in baptism we receive an irrevocable writ of absolute freedom and ...

Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15:20 “but in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.” The resurrection we are celebrating is only the beginning.

In a feminist commentary on Colossians I wrote with Claire Miller Colombo—for the Wisdom Commentary series from Liturgical Press—we asked how the women in the congregation who affirmed that they had ...

Christ has united us with himself so that we have been raised up with him and have been seated at the right hand of God (Col. 3:1). It is this connection with him, this new state of being included ...

Paul taught about the effects of that: "You have been raised with Christ, let that alone be your guiding star." Both Peter and Paul proclaimed that an absolutely new kind of life was thriving in ...

“If you were raised with Christ,” St. Paul proclaims to us at Mass on Easter Sunday morning, “seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is ...

I’m with the Apostle Paul who wrote and the billions of Christians around the world who profess, “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile.” If Jesus wasn’t actually resurrected ...