Tag: easter feature

  • The spiritual resurrection

    The spiritual resurrection

    Reading words written nearly 500 years ago and translated nearly 70 years ago takes some effort, especially when the message is that death precedes resurrection. We trust the Spirit will reveal something new in the old. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. The Scriptures teach two…

  • Called to deep hope

    Called to deep hope

    Mary Magdalene couldn’t have known the end of the story—how things would turn out. How could she? She, and the rest of the disciples, were no different from the rest of us. The future is cloudy at best. We don’t know what the next day will hold. Back then, no one saw the resurrection coming.…

  • ‘I have seen the Lord!’

    ‘I have seen the Lord!’

    Easter is a time to speak a message of lavish grace, of love personified and of unending hope. This is a day to leave guilt, shame and fear tangled up with the linen strips inside that empty tomb. Our Lord has risen! Hallelujah! Today we ask the questions: Who is this Jesus who loved humanity…