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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome

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in his time. Now for our
community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust, and it's
brought to you by Arnold Boyt Deecamp Funeral

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Homes, Tall Grass Motors and Gatfield
Ministries. We have a big event that's

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coming up here in just a few
days and we're speaking with doctor Mark Wheeder,

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the Dean of the School Ministry and
Christian Thought at Oklahoma Wesley and University.

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Big question resurrection. Is it real? That's the question we're going to

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talk about. Isn't it Yes,
they'll enlighten us a little bit about this

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event. Well, this Thursday in
the Lion Hall in our chapel, we

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have in a community forum on the
facts of the Resurrection. Now, I've

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been in ministry for around fifty years
and probably preached forty Easter Sunday sermons.

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But you know, on Easter Sunday, most of the people there are believers

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and they're kind of there to celebrate
the resurrection of Jesus. And that's all

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well and good. But this lecture
series was developed up a little differently.

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I was asked about eight or ten
years ago to come over to Alva,

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Oklahoma to Northwestern Oklahoma State University and
do a lecture dealing with the resurrection and

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what precipitated that was. Apparently there
was a kind of a controversy going back

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and forth between a student who was
in charge of some kind of ministry on

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campus and a biology professor in the
school newspaper over the resurrection of Jesus and

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whether that was possible or not.
And of course the biology professor was taking

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the scientific, secular view that you
know, raising from the dead was impossible.

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So I was asking him over and
do a lecture. But I didn't

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want a lecture just Christians. I
wanted to talk to people who might be

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skeptics, and so I developed this
lecture series on the facts of the Resurrection?

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Do we have to give up our
logic, our reason? You know,

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his faith and gullibility the same thing? And I don't, you know,

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I don't think it has to be. And so I developed this lecture

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series and will be presenting it on
Thursday night. This is going to be

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very interesting and it's a part of
a lot of different events that we've been

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having recently at Oklahoma Wesleyan University of
Court Lion Hall is beautiful. If you

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can't find to see you got a
problem, it's a great place to witness

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a lot of things, and it's
a great time to come and hears a

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good doctor and speak on this topic. Now, we were talking before we

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got on the air that the world
has changed a little bit since we wore

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younger men's clothes, and our peers
or folks our age, some of them

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have kind of drifted away from the
church, not kind of, but they

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have been drifting away. And it
just seems like we're in a very bizarre

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timeframe these days, well even particularly
since post COVID. If you look at

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the data that with all the surveys, the percentage of people who identify as

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Christians in America or as church members
is the lowest percentage in recorded history,

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and it's been going down every year. And you can look at a lot

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of different rationales or reasons why.
But I think, particularly with our secular

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age and our scientific age, people
are less inclined to want to take things

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like we would just say by faith, and perhaps we have to remove some

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philosophical barriers out of the road before
we go listening to the gospel. Or

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you can't just hit them overhead of
the Bible because they don't believe the Bible,

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don't understand the Bible. And so
I think if we can remove some

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philosophical obstacles, it can help them
to hear the Gospel and come to faith.

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Well, it's really kind of interesting, is some science is now reinforcing

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a lot of things did happen as
was mentioned in what I call the greatest

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history book on earth, the Holy
Bible. In this lecture I hit three

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areas. Number one, I talk
about the importance of the bodily resurrection of

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Jesus. I mean, how important
is that? Can we could we still

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follow Jesus as a great moral leader
even if he didn't raise from the dead

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or was there like a spiritual resurrection
out of bodied resurrection? So I talk

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about that, and then the main
portion deals with the facts. What can

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we know factually not just on the
scriptures but factually from history, but the

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life, death, and resurrection of
Jesus. And then finally I talk about

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objections to the resurrection. In other
words, the tomb was empty. I

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mean, we'll talk about that.
Even secular history agrees that. So if

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Jesus didn't rise from the dead,
what are the other alternative theories, and

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talk about objections to the body resurrection. So I hit those kind of three

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areas in this lecture series. You
know, the thing that gets me in

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the Bible is the right there in
front of the tomb, an entity says

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he's not in there. That had
to be a chilling thing to hear or

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witness, and then to look in
and he's not. He's not here,

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he's risen. And again for those
of us who take the Bible seriously believe

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in in errancy and infallibility, uh
the scripture, that's not a problem.

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It's not you know, we we
believe what the Bible teaches us. But

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again for those who are more skeptical, you know, I think there is

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evidence and there is facts that can
help us learn about Jesus along with the

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authority of scripture. And that's kind
of what I want to share. Great,

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you know, so we're inviting everyone, whether you're a believer and especially

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if you're a skeptic, we'd really
like to have you come in and take

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take a listen, and uh,
you know, just kind of let a

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few things enter into your into your
mind and let it ferment a little bit

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and imagine you probably have more questions, but at least you got the ball

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rolling and we will obviously it is
a lecture, but I will be taking

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time. Obviously there are questions and
answers, and hopefully answers. At least

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I'll take the questions and I'm sure
you'll answer them. That's that's the best

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we can. But yeah, we
would love to have you. Know.

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This series that we've been doing this
year is we want to get community onto

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our campus and we invite you to
be a participate. It's a beautiful campus,

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it's a beautiful school, and if
you've not done anything but drive by

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there, this is your opportunity to
pull in, come inside and take a

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look at what a what a great
educational and spiritual resource we have here at

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our community. Yeah, it's in
the chapel, so right off of Silver

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Lake if you turn right into that
parking lot or the parking lot right behind

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it. The Lion Hall is in
the chapel, so you don't have to

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go down deep into the campus or
anything to get to the Line Hall.

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Oh yeah, it's there, it's
it's very there. Well, you've been

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with the school for how long now, thirty eight years? Thirty eight years,

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which says one of two things.
Either I really love the place or

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nobody else wanted me. So you
can decide which one of that is.

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Some people just say you had a
good start, but you know this is

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going to be great. It's called
The Facts, the Fact of the Resurrection

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of Jesus Christ. It is March
fourteenth, seven pm, Lion Hall.

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What's the admission? Nothing absolutely free? Absolutely wrong there no, the price

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is absolutely right. So we'd like
to see as many people as possible come

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in and listen to the good doctor
speak on this topic and bring an open

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mind. Yes, bring a very
open mind. And you know that's one

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thing that's missing on college campuses around
the world, not so much at Wesleyan,

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but some of the bigger ones as
the lack of diversity when it comes

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to thought. You know, we
don't want to doctrin eight people who want

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to give people to think. We
want you. Yeah, And if you're

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a believer, you know it'll also
give you some ammunition when you're talking to

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your friends maybe who are not believers
and they want to talk about this topic

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and you can have somebody to share
with them as well. Very good doctor,

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Thank you for being here and we
look forward to your presentation coming up

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on the fourteenth. Thanks for inviting
me, alrighty, thank you, and

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we've got more coming up.