is a God and that he revealed himself in the person of Jesus of Nazareth who died on a cross for the sins of the world and then rose again from the dead. I also discovered that searching for reasons to believe these astounding truth claims is not an ill-advised activity. Jesus himself after rising from the dead spent forty days with his disciples, giving them “many convincing proofs” that he had risen from the dead (Acts 1:3). In other words, Jesus was not going to send his disciples out into the