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“ And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins.” – 1 Corinthians 15:17

#PoplarEaster! FRIDAY

#PoplarEaster! “The cross is both ugly and beautiful. It’s as ugly as human sin and as beautiful as divine love.” - Brian Zhand

#PoplarEaster! SATURDAY

#PoplarEaster! “Be still, and know that I am God.” – Psalm 46:10

#PoplarEaster! SUNDAY!

#PoplarEaster! When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3 And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”

#PoplarEaster! 4 And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. 5 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. 6 And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him.

#PoplarEaster! 7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.” 8 And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. -Mark 16:1-8

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“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” - 1 Corinthians 15:55

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“He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.” - Colossians 2:15

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“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” – Revelation 1:8

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"On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night.”

#PoplarEaster! “What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn." – G.K. Chesterton

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“The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die. What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it.”

#PoplarEaster! “What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God's future.”

#PoplarEaster! “These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether They are part of what we may call building for God's kingdom.” -N.T. Wright

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