Easter (11)
  1. The end of the Easter season is a good time to remind ourselves that the Holy Spirit kindly stops by because the Messiah has triumphed over the Murderer.
  2. The earlier Christians, like us, experienced the struggle, but they knew how the fact of Jesus coming back from three days in the tomb meant every day of their life on this earth was a day framed and governed by His claim on life for His people.
  3. Strange as it may sound, Easter is the perfect time to use the pulpit and other forums for preparing people to die.
  4. The empty tomb delivers the grains of life that pollinate all good things so life in its fullest can blossom in our lives because Christ brought life back to us when He rose.
  5. The “alleluia” sustains itself and actively shapes the way in which we see ourselves and the world around us to say nothing of our Lord and God.
  6. Reluctant as they undoubtedly were, the soldiers were the first witnesses who spread word that Jesus, who had been crucified, dead, and buried, was now alive and on the move.
  7. That Jesus is risen from the dead means, now and forever, Satan is bound, and it is determined he has no right to try to have a say in our lives.
  8. The gospel of Jesus’ coming out of death and the tomb alive so that we might be restored to our identity as God’s children establishes the most enduring reality there is.
  9. The Easter season is designed to cultivate our resurrection thinking throughout the year. When God looks at us each day, He sees us through the lens of Christ’s resurrection. We should look at our lives the same way.
  10. The devil is to be taken seriously, but we should also not give him more credit or more power than he has after being defanged by Christ’s resurrection.
  11. Can we fully experience the joy of the Festival of the Resurrection if we do not seriously stare boldly into the sad state of our own faithlessness to Him who promises to be faithful even when we are not?