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Jesus in the Media: Things Go better with….Jesus and Coke?
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Ben Witherington
O.K. so this Italian ad executive is doing some soul searching having lost his job and his marriage, and goes to Jerusalem. He bumps into Jesus and offers him a Coke. Jesus kindly takes it and drinks it and being the ad agent he is the ad exec thinks– “What a testimonial for Coca Cola!”…
A Christian wins the Masters
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Ben Witherington
Growing up in North Carolina, two things are paramount when it comes to sports. You had better like basketball, or better yet play basketball, and you had better like golf. Last week I had the privilege of doing Palm Sunday events for First Baptist Church in Pinehurst and they got me on Pinehurst No. 8,…
A Brief History of Easter
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Ben Witherington
Happy Easter One and All. Below you will find a link to the super fast history of Easter courtesy of the History Channel, in less than four minutes. You too can discover the link between Jesus, Easter, bunnies, eggs, and when exactly we decided to have Easter celebrations always on Sunday instead of just following…
THE LAZARUS EFFECT– PART SEVEN
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Ben Witherington
N.B.— These are the concluding chapters of the first half of the novel the Lazarus Effect. Let me know what you think— Happy Easter BW3 ————– CHAPTER TWENTY: THE JAIL HOUSE ROCK To say it was hot in the jail cell was putting it mildly. The bottom floor of the Jerusalem police station had a…
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