Do You Have a Reason for Your Faith? | Mark | 1 Peter 3.15

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

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Are faith and reason really at odds with each other? What makes Christianity believable? Find out why https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Pastor Patrick Miller) believes in the Resurrection as we continue our series on https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/mark/ (Mark). Interested in more content like this? Check out https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-we-know-the-resurrection-was-real-learning-to-follow-jesus-luke-24-1-12/ (How We Know the Resurrection Was Real) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/was-jesus-a-real-person-who-is-jesus/ (Was Jesus a Real Person?) Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Outline 0:15 - Follow our new https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (Twitter) account @tmbtpodcast 0:35 - Why do you believe in Jesus?: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+3.15&version=ESV (1 Peter 3.15) 2:05 - Was the Resurrection fact or fiction? 3:40 - Were the stories of the Resurrection made up or real? 8:00 - Jesus wasn't the only crucified Messiah 10:35 - If the Resurrection was fiction… 11:40 - Subscribe. Rate. Share. Social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/) Twitter: https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast) Passages 1 Peter 3.15: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+3.15&version=ESV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+3.15&version=ESV) Resources Mark: A Free Guided Bible Reading Plan: https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/guided-bible-reading-plan-mark (https://info.thecrossingchurch.com/guided-bible-reading-plan-mark) Related How We Know the Resurrection Was Real: https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-we-know-the-resurrection-was-real-learning-to-follow-jesus-luke-24-1-12/ (https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/how-we-know-the-resurrection-was-real-learning-to-follow-jesus-luke-24-1-12/) Was Jesus a Real Person?: https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/was-jesus-a-real-person-who-is-jesus/ (https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/was-jesus-a-real-person-who-is-jesus/) Mark: https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/mark/ (https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcast-series/mark/) Support this podcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Keith Simon.
0:11.9	And I'm Patrick Miller. If this
0:14.2	podcast has been helping you in your walk with God, would you take five seconds to
0:19.0	help us? Hop onto Twitter and follow our new Twitter account at
0:23.2	TMBT podcast. If you go there you can see our latest
0:27.4	episodes. You can also follow Keith and I and send us
0:30.6	messages. We'd love to follow you back and see what's happening in your life.
0:35.6	Right now we are asking, who is Jesus?
0:39.2	Why do you believe in Jesus?
0:41.7	It used to be I would hear people tell me, oh I just have faith, but I find that interesting
0:46.2	because that's not the kind of answer that the Bible calls us to give. Peter wrote a letter
0:51.9	to early Christians in modern day Turkey and this is what he told
0:56.1	them to do he said that you should always be prepared to make a defense to anyone
1:01.1	who asks you for the reason for the hope that is in you.
1:04.2	Yet do it with gentleness and respect. He said you need to give a reasonable
1:10.0	reason for your faith, not like a jerk, but he also is not saying just tell them
1:16.4	that you just believe that you just have faith. This was the approach of
1:20.6	the earliest disciples of Jesus. They didn't believe that he rose from the dead
1:24.4	because they made some sort of irrational leap of faith. They believed it because they saw it with
1:29.6	their own two eyes and they were prepared to make a reasonable defense.
1:35.0	When I'm talking to someone who's curious about the claims of Christianity, maybe that's
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