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"In the midst of an empty tomb that looked nothing like what they were expecting, came a message to the lost and the losers—a challenge to spread the good news to all God's people. You don't have to empty the tomb yourself. You just have to point out to others that it's been done."
"The Risen Christ is on the move in new ways in the world and he calls on Mary to get moving, too. So, after she stayed there that Easter morning, Mary went. And it was her joy, and her responsibility, to announce that a startling new morning of the world had begun."
"His resurrection is not an isolated miracle; rather, it is the sign of God's design to defeat the power of death and to embrace fallen creatures into his family."
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"One thing I appreciate about preaching on Easter year after year is the opportunity to notice something new in this familiar story."
"Probably no single sermon can or should attend to all the reasons Paul is so concerned to reaffirm the common faith in Jesus' resurrection, but the preacher needs to remember what's going on here. Throughout I Corinthians, Paul is responding to information he has received about some of the dubious theological claims the Corinthian Christians are making."
Brown, Raymond E., "The Resurrection in John 20 -- A Series of Diverse Reactions," Worship, 1990.
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"John is a gospel of encounters: Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman at the well, the cripple at Bethesda, the man born blind, Mary and Martha, and even Pilate. One after the other they have made their entrance onto the Johannine stage to encounter Jesus, the light come into the world; and in so doing they have judged themselves by whether or not they continue to come to the light or turn away and prefer darkness (Jn 3:19-21). It is not surprising, then, that the principal Johannine account of the appearances of the risen Jesus becomes a series of encounters illustrating different faith reactions."
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