As Christians, we often talk about God's Coming Kingdom as the Good News. But whether news is good or bad depends on our values. The resurrection was good news for the disciples, but bad news for the religious authorities whose interests the coming kingdom threatened. When God becomes king, he deposes all our other kings.…

Jesus raises Lazarus to a new, mortal life. The Father raises Jesus to a new, immortal life. These two resurrections provide a framework for understanding the Christian hope. When we come to faith in Jesus, we are no longer spiritually dead, but the vestiges of death (symbolized by the graveclothes in Lazarus' resurrection) are still…