The title for this post is not the first lines from a joke.  It is the true story of two nonbelievers.  The first was esteemed lawyer Samuel Greenleaf, Royall Professor of Law at Harvard University.  The second is Lee Strobel, an investigative journalist and former legal editor for the Chicago Tribune.  Both of these men determined to expose the myth of Christ’s resurrection and divinity.  In the process of their investigations, each became followers of Jesus.

Have you investigated Jesus?  One of the things I love most about Christianity is that Jesus doesn’t expect us to have blind faith in Him.  Instead, He invites each of us to investigate Him thoroughly.  Jesus welcomes skeptics.

The surprise is how many choose not to believe in Jesus because of something they’ve heard.  To me, that would be like someone telling me my child was dead and that I should just take their word for it.  Of course, I wouldn’t believe until I proved it for myself.

With mortality looming and eternity awaiting, I had to investigate Jesus to know for certain.  Like Greenleaf and Strobel, I found the evidence that Jesus is who He said He is more than compelling.  I invite you to do the same.  Please check our ABOUT page for links and books to get you started.

David’s testimony:  Although I had been raised in church, by my twenties, I had fallen away from the faith.  I felt angry because in a time of need, my church family didn’t help.  I felt that all Christians were hypocrites.  I was unchurched for thirty years.  During that time, I looked into different religions, visited Hindu and Buddhist temples and read about their faiths, went to sweat lodges, tried transcendental meditation, and studied new age ideas.  It all left me empty… there was something missing.

One morning I looked in the mirror and heard a voice, “What’s going to happen when you die?”

I didn’t have an answer.  It was a powerful event.

I decided to investigate Jesus more thoroughly.  During my journey, I received several signs that I was on the right path.  I reaffirmed  that there is a God and that He had sent His Son to save us from our sins.  I realized Jesus was in fact who He said He was.  I discovered His salvation and grace.  I also recognized that I had to separate Jesus from religion.

I know now that the voice I heard in 2001 was God speaking to me.  I accepted Jesus as my Savior and have found a peace that I never had before.  My life has changed forever for the good.

Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”

But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”  Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”

Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”  John 20:24-29