Luke 24

Christmas is wonderful but it is only a prelude to what happened at Easter!

But very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.  They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.

So they went in, but they didn’t find the body of the Lord Jesus. As they stood there puzzled, two men suddenly appeared to them, clothed in dazzling robes.

The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to the ground.

Then the men asked, “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead!

Remember what he told you back in Galilee,  that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.”

Then they remembered that he had said this. So they rushed back from the tomb to tell his eleven disciples—and everyone else—what had happened. (From Luke 24, NLT)

Prayer – Father, thank you for Christmas, when Jesus came to earth as a tiny baby… but most of all, thank you for Easter, when he died on the cross and rose from the dead for our sins. AMEN