Sunday Homilies with Fr. Mike Schmitz 04/05/26 Easter Sunday: Everything is Restored
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Apr 5, 2026 A reflection on the empty tomb and the legal and personal case for the resurrection. Stories of investigators and thinkers who found the resurrection compelling. A focus on how death twists relationships and joys, and how rising restores what was given and taken. Invitations to hand everything over so restoration can begin.
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Journalist Lee Strobel's Investigation Turned to Faith
- Lee Strobel set out as an atheist investigative journalist to disprove the resurrection and spent two years interviewing historians, theologians, and doctors.
- His research concluded the resurrection is true and transformed him into a committed Christian who wrote and preached about Jesus.
Lawyer Sir Lionel Lucku Applied Legal Proof To Resurrection
- Sir Lionel Lucku, a criminal defense attorney with many acquittals, applied legal standards to the gospel and concluded the resurrection evidence leaves no room for reasonable doubt.
- His legal evaluation included eyewitness testimony and the apostles' transformed lives as decisive factors.
Resurrection As Undoing Death From The Inside
- Jesus did not rise simply to prove a point; he entered death and undid it from the inside by allowing death to do its worst and then rising.
- This framing makes the resurrection a restorative act that overcomes the pervasive reach of death described since Genesis.