Resurrection (214)
  1. The story of Christ crucified has a happy ending. Jesus has conquered the grave. He beat the death rap.
  2. Like her Lord, the Church has dirt under her nails, the smell of coffin wood on her clothes, and a hunger in her belly.
  3. Then He went to the coffin. He touched it, like a carpenter sizing up the piece of wood He plans to turn into some sort of new creation, running His hand down its side.
  4. It is the strangest of morgues—people arrive dead as doornails and leave alive.
  5. So it is with my little garden as well; dead, so it would seem. Nothing. Barren.
  6. Over and over, generation after generation, sinners repeat the same mistake. "How is it possible that God can be a man," we ask.
  7. Should we consider the tomb of Jesus completely empty, or just somewhat empty?
  8. Before you ever know what happened, Satan has taught us to doubt the promise of the crucified and risen Christ.
  9. On this night of nights, Christ arises victorious and sends the devil’s hordes running with no darkness to find cover; death’s dark shadow is gone
  10. “Why do you seek the living One among the dead?” the angel asked the two women. The time for Jesus to die has passed.
  11. He has Israel right where he wants them: a body of water in front of them, their enemies behind them, and God above them, ready to save. Our Lord is always undoing us that he might redo us, killing us that he might enliven us.
  12. In reality, Easter equals good news for you. And our world needs some good news. Maybe we’re not even sure what’s wrong, but we know this world is broken.
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