We’d like to share with you the tragic but hopeful story behind the Christmas carol “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Justin Taylor told the story on our website in 2014, and it continues to attract new readers each Christmas. On this episode of The Gospel Coalition Podcast, Bernard Howard will read Taylor’s account of the poem’s origin, then Caroline Cobb and Sean Carter will sing it.
Is there enough evidence for us to believe the Gospels?
In an age of faith deconstruction and skepticism about the Bible’s authority, it’s common to hear claims that the Gospels are unreliable propaganda. And if the Gospels are shown to be historically unreliable, the whole foundation of Christianity begins to crumble.But the Gospels are historically reliable. And the evidence for this is vast.
To learn about the evidence for the historical reliability of the four Gospels, click below to access a FREE eBook of Can We Trust the Gospels? written by New Testament scholar Peter J. Williams.
