He starts a little past 20 minutes in.

The sermon starts some 32 minutes in.

…particularly when we look at the disciples, the watered-down resurrection doesn’t seem credible at all. Remember that the Gospel of John (whose author had little to gain by making the disciples, future leaders of the early church, look bad) notes that the disciples were so frightened that they barricaded themselves behind locked doors after Jesus’s death. They had good reason to be. “If the authorities dealt that way with Jesus, who had so many people supporting him,” they must have thought, “what will they do to us?” Even before the crucifixion Peter shrank in fear from being identified as a follower of Jesus. Imagine how their fear would have intensified after witnessing the Romans’ brutal execution of their master.

With one exception, all of Jesus’s male followers were so terrified that they shrank from standing at the foot of the cross, unable to accompany Jesus during his final hours. Their reluctance may have stemmed from an inability to watch the agonizing death of their friend, but much was out of fear of being identified as a follower of an enemy of Rome. (The women, showed no such fear, though the situation may have posed less danger for them.)

The disciples were terrified. So does it seem credible that something as simple as sitting around and remembering Jesus would snap them out of their abject fear? Not to me. Something incontrovertible, something undeniable, something visible, something tangible, was necessary to transform them from fearful to fearless.

This is one of the most compelling “proofs” of the Resurrection.

Read it all.

Resurrection (1593) by Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome.) – Louvre in Paris,France pic.twitter.com/6XCAoEe9CK

— Bill Koudounas (@billKoudounas) April 23, 2022

There is also still more there.

Wednesday after Easter …..
Painting by Rembrandt – Christ at Emmaus ,1648
Louvre pic.twitter.com/o8c3hiWMat

— anisja rossi (@anisja_rossi) April 20, 2022

Almighty God, who by the hand of Mark the evangelist hast given to thy Church the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God: We thank thee for this witness, and pray that we may be firmly grounded in its truth; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Today we celebrate the Feast Day of #SaintMark the Apostle

He preached and died a martyr in #Alexandria, he founded and was the first Pope of the #Coptic Orthodox Church, his symbol is the winged lion.
He is Patron Saint of #Egypt and #Venice. pic.twitter.com/HxYqPcKZoP

— This is Christian Syria (@Christian_Syria) April 25, 2022

O God, the living God, who hast given unto us a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: Grant that we, being risen with him, may seek the things which are above, and be made partakers of the life eternal; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.

—Daily Prayer, Eric Milner-White and G. W. Briggs, eds. (London: Penguin Books 1959 edition of the 1941 original)

Beautiful sunrise to start out the new week! @stormhour #chswx pic.twitter.com/axSsEZHVjU

— JoeyLive5 (@JoeySovine) April 25, 2022

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

–Psalm 1:1-3

Each colorful layer represents a chapter of time, the Painted Hills at @JDFossilBedsNPS are red, tan, orange and black striped fossil soils from 33 million years ago.

Photo courtesy of Bill Vollmer pic.twitter.com/QqMvIVCbtF

— US Department of the Interior (@Interior) April 24, 2022