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Do Near-Death Experiences Offer Clues to the Scope of Salvation?

They claim to be eyewitnesses to eternity, spectators to the supernatural. “I’ve seen Heaven” is their audacious claim. “I met God there.” “I’m no longer afraid to die because I know there’s life after death, and it’s more real than real life!” One even described the experience like this: “If you took the one-thousand best…
Michael Zigarelli
April 2, 2026
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Near-Death Experiences and the Emerging Implications for Christian Theology

If the thousands of global reports of “near-death experiences” (NDEs) are to be believed, they support much in Christian theology, including consciousness surviving physical death and the existence of a supernatural realm, a supreme being of unfathomable love, an intercessor named Jesus, and an afterlife with both glorious and ghastly destinations. Conversely, many NDE reports…
Michael Zigarelli
March 3, 2024
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A Typology of Christian Discipleship Methods, Part 2

What are the disciple-making options for churches, schools, and others committed to facilitating the spiritual growth process? Part 1 of this series offered five methods from throughout church history. Here in Part 2, I share four more historical methods, followed by a suggestion for integrating these time-honored approaches into a comprehensive discipleship model that is…
Michael Zigarelli
January 6, 2023
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A Typology of Christian Discipleship Methods, Part 1

Followers of Jesus are to be leaders in disciple-making. At home, at work, in school, in church, anywhere really, it is nothing less than what the scriptures invite us to do with our lives: Be disciples and make disciples. In fact, the word μαθητής (mathetes) appears more than 250 times in the New Testament, meaning…
Michael Zigarelli
January 5, 2023
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Another Way In: “Near-Death Experiences” as an Apologetic

Maria was dead. The hospital staff worked heroically to save her, but the heart attack was just too severe. Somehow, though, Maria saw the whole resuscitation process from above. She saw something else, too, as she drifted from the room. A tennis shoe: Third floor of the hospital, on an outside window ledge. Maria would…
Michael Zigarelli
August 9, 2022