Christ Is Risen
Jesus, you're alive. The tomb is empty. Death is defeated. You died Friday, rested Saturday, and rose Sunday - exactly as you said you would. Everything you predicted came true. Everything you promised was fulfilled. You conquered death, not by avoiding it but by going through it and comin
Easter Sunday. Resurrection day. The tomb is empty. Death is defeated. Jesus is alive. Christianity stands or falls on this historical claim - not that Jesus taught beautiful truths, not that his example inspires, not that his followers believe really hard - but that he literally, physical
Father, yesterday Jesus died and tomorrow he'll rise, but today he's dead and I'm sitting with the uncertainty of that reality. The disciples didn't know Sunday was coming. They were processing Friday's horror without Sunday's hope. They were in Saturday - that gray space between tragedy a
Holy Saturday is the strangest day in the Christian calendar. Yesterday, Good Friday, Jesus died. Tomorrow, Easter Sunday, he will rise. But today? Today he's dead. His body lies in Joseph of Arimathea's tomb, wrapped in burial cloths, sealed behind a large stone. The disciples are scatter