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Tuesday Apr 25, 2017
Redeeming "Doubting" Thomas
Tuesday Apr 25, 2017
Tuesday Apr 25, 2017
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Read along with John 20:19-31.
Redeeming "Doubting" Thomas
Sermon excerpt:
Frankly, he’s not the only doubter, if you want to call it that. Mary Magdalene saw the empty tomb herself and she didn’t believe he had risen until Jesus came and spoke to her directly.[1] Then, when she told the other disciples about talking to him, they dismissed it because they hadn’t seen it for themselves. It wasn’t until Jesus appeared to them personally that the disciples believed.
So why do we give Thomas such a hard time? He was just asking for what everyone else got. He needed more than a secondhand story of someone else’s interaction with Jesus. He wanted it for himself.
Who doesn’t, really?
[1] FotW, Copenhaver, pp. 395-396.
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