| Every Sunday is an anniversary of the first resurrection Sunday. For one thing it means we are mere human beings who can’t explain everything. For another thing it means God has power over death and humiliation. God raises up whatever the world has wrongly condemned. |
| Imagine getting up every morning believing it is Easter morning! Imagine starting each day as a fresh, new resurrected person! All the past is dead and gone. Imagine having over a month of Resurrection Day anniversary celebrations every year! Imagine being freshly alive every single day. Imagine intentionally being among the living sharing this new life to the fullest. No past to drag you down. |
| The only reason this is hard to imagine is because we allow our past to get in our way. We allow people to remind us of our past. And if they refuse to do it, we remind ourselves of our past. Yes, we may have the current task of cleaning up some messes we have made in our past, but that doesn’t mean we have to relive the past or wallow in it or beat ourselves up with it. What if we lived each and every day looking |
| “But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.’” Luke 24:1-5 NRSV. |
| It reads almost like a science fiction novel, doesn’t it? A miraculous or even magical event has happened. Certainly an unexplainable event has occurred. Miracles are difficult for us as modern people. We tend to either focus on the magical, science fiction part or dismiss the whole thing as illogical and impossible. What does it mean to believe God raised Jesus from the dead? |
| Intellectuals from many scholarly neighborhoods will tell you faith is for people who just can’t handle life or for people who are not too bright. Faith is for weenies, wimps and women. Ironically that is truly a biblical concept since so many weenies, wimps and women followed Jesus and believed. Some of the above were the first witnesses to the resurrection. Being women, however, made their witness suspect. Using this criterion one could conceivably deem this entire article suspect since a person of questionable credibility penned it. |
| What does it mean to have faith God raised Jesus from the dead? What does it mean to believe every Sunday is Easter Sunday? |
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