The resurrection means everything good will be restored. Because of Jesus’ bodily, historical rising from the dead, a new day has dawned. Just as the power of sin touched every single part of creation at the fall, the power of the resurrection is redeeming every single part of creation since Easter. Sin and death has been swallowed up in the victory of God.

God is restoring everything- paintings and buildings, people and marriages, relationships and families, hearts and bodies, and the whole universe! So, when it comes to the future, we need not be pessimists nor optimists; instead we can be something far more powerful: resurrectionists!

He has risen! Hallelujah!

The resurrection is emphatic: Jesus is said to have bodily risen in time and space at a moment in history. The resurrection is neither mythical, nor metaphorical. It happened, and it changed the world forever.

To a world lost to wishy washy relativism, Jesus’ victory over death is the most sure absolute anyone can build a life on. And the resurrection is transformational. The victory of God means the end of fear and the end of any lack of purpose. Those who live in the light of resurrection are able not to be alarmed, and to go: go and live lives of meaning. And the resurrection is grace. It’s the gift of God to a world in need. Grace transforms everything.

Thank God for Easter. 

By Ed Flint

Easter is about hope: the sure, concrete, touchable hope that is found in the bodily resurrection of Jesus. It’s a hope based in his power (he swallows up death forever) and based in his kindness (he wipes every tear from all faces). Easter declares Jesus as Lord of all, which sets us free from having to bear the burden of being our own lord. His lordship sets us free to worship and surrender and be made alive by his power and in his kindness.

By Ed Flint

The details of gospel accounts of Jesus‘ resurrection never fail to blow our minds when we stop and examine. Just like much of his life and ministry, when Jesus first announced he had risen from the dead, and changed everything for the whole world forever, there was no fanfare or fireshow or thunderous display, just calm, kind words to a woman who had loved him dearly. Jesus always chooses the Mary Magdalene's, which is hope for all of us.  

By Hannah Flint