Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, it's the Easter season, which means we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus

Christ. I know it's hard sometimes to feel like we should be in a celebratory mood. I mean,

when you have this pandemic sweeping the globe and for many of us we haven't been able

to go to Mass in weeks, if not months, have been starved of receiving Christ in the Eucharist.

It's a lot to get people down, and I've felt down. But at the same time we should remember that

what has given Christians so much comfort in the face of unimaginable despair and evil,

whether it's pandemics of the past or wars or famines, is the knowledge that God has achieved

the victory for us through Christ's resurrection. The resurrection of Jesus Christ truly is the

bedrock of our faith. St. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15, that if Christ has not been raised,

your faith is in vain. So we need to celebrate this. It should give a joyful smile to our face to know

Christ is risen, as we say in the Eastern Church, as Christ is risen, indeed he is risen, indeed he is risen.

As we're going to celebrate that fact and not just celebrate it, but learn how to defend this

bedrock element of our faith with an author, a friend of mine, who wrote a great book on that,

called The Bedrock of Christianity, the unalterable facts of Jesus's death and resurrection. His name is

Justin Bass. Justin has a PhD from Dallas Theological Seminary. He currently lives in a

密ont欠by temple at John Jordan where he serves refugees through an NGO and is professor of new

testament at Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary. He is the author of the book, The Battle for the

Keyes, Revelation 118 in Christ, Disent to the Underworld and the author of the book, we are talking about today

the bedrock of Christianity, a wonderful defense of the resurrection that I was happy to give an

endorsement to serving right on the back there and I just want you all to know, if you're listening,

I really do believe in that book. There are some people out there that if you go to them, they'll give

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