Long Live the King

What I love about Easter is that it feels like sometimes its the one time a year where as a human race we can seriously talk about the most obvious thing in the world—that we are all going to die.

We are all in total denial unless we talk seriously about the problem of death! We are going to die, and that is THE problem of all time and humanity.

And it is square in the middle of that problem that we begin our Bible reading today. Turn to
Luke 24:1.

While you are turning, some context: Jesus has been crucified—the verses just before this tell
the story. Joseph of Arimathea ask for his body, and took it, did a hurry-up job of wrapping the
dead corpse of Jesus, and laid him in a tomb. The women saw it all, and decided they wanted
to do a proper job of anointing their loved one, so they went home and began preparing burial
spices and ointments. They couldn’t go to the grave on Saturday because it was Sabbath, so,
that gets us to Sunday, the first day of the week. They has tossed and turned, and in their grief
and confusion, had probably not slept, and...

Luke 24:1–12 (ESV)