Pastor's Corner: The lesson found in Thomas

In light of Easter and celebrating our resurrected Jesus, I was faced with the response of one of Jesus’ disciples named Thomas.

Thomas has been marked as “Doubting Thomas” by the Christian movement as a whole. But I believe we miss an amazing message found in the story of Thomas if we leave it there. John tells us about the response of Thomas to the stories of the risen Savior: “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it” (John 20:25b emphasis mine). Thomas like much of the Jewish culture had based much...