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Raised Again!

05 Sunday Apr 2026

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I will praise the LORD!

Morning sunrise — photo by David Kitz


Reading: Psalm 22:27-31

Listen to today’s reading by Jonathan Dent:

On the first day of the week,
very early in the morning,
the women took the spices they had prepared
and went to the tomb.
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
but when they entered,
they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
While they were wondering about this,
suddenly two men in clothes
that gleamed like lightning stood beside them.
In their fright
the women bowed down with their faces to the ground,
but the men said to them,
“Why do you look for the living among the dead?
He is not here;
he has risen!
Remember how he told you,
while he was still with you in Galilee:
‘The Son of Man must be delivered over
to the hands of sinners,
be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ”
Then they remembered his words.
(Luke 24: 1-8, NIV)

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A Journey to the Cross and the Empty Tomb

05 Sunday Apr 2026

Posted by in Psalms Alive!, The Soldier Who Killed a King

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This Easter morning, I will be doing a live dramatization of the crucifixion and resurrection before a congregation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I have done this Holy Week drama dressed in Roman armor during the Lent/Easter for about thirty years in various locations in Canada and United States. But this is the first time I have done this “Centurion’s Report” presentation in Winnipeg.

Easter Sunday is an ideal time to view this one-man drama since Act 4 concludes with a portrayal of Jesus’ resurrection, and the turmoil and amazement it caused among the Roman soldiers and their centurion commander. See Matthew 27:62-66 and Matthew 28:1-1-15.  This is the same centurion who in Act 3 of this drama confesses at the foot of the cross that Jesus is “the Son of God.” See Matthew 27:54.

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This Easter wherever you are take a journey to the cross and the empty tomb.

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