The Twelve – Thomas
The Twelve – Thomas
March 23, 2025
Series: The Twelve
Topic: apostles, doubting thomas, faith, my lord and my god, thomas
Book: John
Service Type: Sunday Evening
Scriptures: John 14:1-7, John 20:24-29, John 21:1-14
Thomas gets a bad rap and the common nickname “Doubting Thomas” due to the well-known stories from the gospel of John in which Thomas first refused to believe the other apostles’ report about the resurrected Jesus appearing to them, and then a week later Jesus’ mild rebuke of Thomas saying, “Be not unbelieving, but believing.” But does Thomas really deserve our scorn and ridicule. After all, the other apostles refused to believe the report from the women to whom Jesus appeared at the empty tomb until He appeared to them later. Furthermore, once Thomas touched and saw the resurrected Jesus for himself, his faith in the Gospel was fulfilled as he fell down in worship declaring, “My LORD and my God!”
