Resurrection-Martyrs

Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.

Would you die for something you knew to be false?  What’s more, would you dedicate every waking hour to promoting a cause you knew was not true?  If Christ did not rise from the dead, the answers to these two questions for the disciples would have to be yes.

Martyrs die nearly every day for causes they are convinced are true.  Eleven of the twelve disciples did the same.  They were all eye-witnesses to the life, death and resurrection of Christ, they spent their lives dedicated to the truth of the resurrection and they all died for preaching the same.  There is no doubt that each of the disciples, and Paul as well, were completely convinced that Jesus rose from the grave, and that He gives us all hope of life beyond death.

The first Easter morning changed the world-and it did so by changing the lives of eleven frightened individuals.  What effect will Easter have on you this year?

This has been Every Thought Captive.  I’m Phil Steiger pastor at Quail Lake Community Church and Director of Dayspring Center for Christian Studies.  For more information please visit everythoughtcaptive.org.