Though born over 2,000 years ago, much of Jesus of Nazareth’s life resonates with our modern experience. He was born into poverty in a small town and spent his first years as a refugee. Sometime during his adult years, he lost his father. He worked as a day laborer and took care of his mother. He wept at the grave of a friend. He suffered. He died.

But he wasn’t ordinary. In the last three of his thirty-three years, this carpenter’s son shook up the cities of Judea and Galilee. He preached a radical love of enemies, forgave sins, healed the suffering, and ate with outcasts. As he hung on a Roman cross, he forgave those who stood below and mocked. And on the third day, he rose from the dead.