Friday, April 3, 2026

On Good Friday, April 3, 2026, Albert Mohler delivers a powerful theological reflection on the centrality of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, framing them not as historical curiosities but as the very foundation of Christian faith. He argues that Christianity cannot survive without the bodily resurrection of Christ, citing 1 Corinthians 15:3–4 as the core of the gospel: Christ died for our sins and was raised on the third day in accordance with Scripture. Mohler confronts modern attempts to reconstruct religion without divine revelation—using Mordecai Kaplan’s Reconstructionist Judaism as a cautionary example—asserting that Judaism without the Old Testament and Christianity without the resurrection are impossible. He then engages three listener questions with deep theological precision: the medical interpretation of water and blood from Jesus’ side (affirming the biblical account over speculation), the nature of Thomas’s doubt (distinguishing believer’s doubt from atheistic unbelief), and the tension between Christus Victor and penal substitutionary atonement models (defending penal substitution as non-negotiable). Mohler concludes with a joyful celebration of resurrection hymns, including 'Christ the Lord is Risen Today' and 'Thine is the Glory,' and answers a five-year-old’s profound question about why people could see Jesus without dying—revealing God’s plan to reveal Himself safely through the incarnation.