Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don’t come until heaven; but for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come.
Jesus’s resurrection is the beginning of God’s new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord’s Prayer is about.
I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.
Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.
Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.
There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection.
The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation – This story begins and ends in joy.
Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.
Jesus plus nothing equals everything; everything minus Jesus equals nothing.
When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything that I do be called sacrifice?
Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.
If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.