The Hope of the Resurrection: How Jesus’s Defeat of Death Changes Everything by Patrick Schreiner seemed to be a really solid way to prepare my heart for Easter this year. Excellent read. Full of Scripture. Inspiring. Convicting. He does a beautiful job of helping the reader understand why we are all truly homesick for Heaven.
I highlighted several things while reading and have posted those notes below…
- I will evaluate the resurrection based on its properties – its truth (correspondence to reality), goodness (that which is morally righteous), and beauty (what moral actions is produces). p. xiv
- Truth = apologetics
Goodness = theology
Beauty = ethics p. xiv - Like Jesus’s scars, your sufferings will be transformed into trophies that gleam with glory. The resurrection is not simply a return to life as it was; it is the offer of a life that is more happy and filled with satisfaction than you have ever imagined. Remember one of the happiest days of your life and realize that this is only a shadow. Every day in the new creation will be infinitely better than your happiest day on the earth. If the resurrection is true, then suffering has an expiration date. p. 32
- C.S. Lewis became a Christian because he suddenly saw that Christ’s story satisfied all his longings. p. 36
- If you don’t believe in the resurrection, your pain is pointless. p. 37
- The resurrection is ultimately good because it is the death of death. p. 55
- “We can only desire what we can imagine.” – Randy Alcorn p. 64
- At the end of Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, one of the characters finally arrives at heaven and says, “This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason we loved the old Narnia is that is sometimes looked a little like this.” Heaven will be like our earth, our cities, our homes-but transformed. p. 68
- One thing I have asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. Psalm 27:4 p. 73
- Fasting allows not only your mind but also your whole body to yearn for God as your grumbling stomach reminds you of your dependence. Fasting is a way to practice death by allowing our bodies to decay for a brief time. It is a way to kill the desires of our flesh. p. 97
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