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Luke 24:1-12 Christ is Risen!   (He is risen indeed, Alleluia!) At dawn, the women arrive.   They’ve got their burial spices.   They’re ready for the grim task ahead of them.   They remember the place.   They saw the body laid there just a couple days ago, and the stone that shut the grave tight.   But now, the stone is rolled back.   The grave is open.   What’s going on?   They go inside. And what they find there – rather what they don’t find there – is the body of Jesus.   Just the grave cloths.   They are, Luke tells us, perplexed.   At a loss.   They don’t know what to make of it. I suppose they could have jumped to the wrong conclusion.   That someone stole the body.   That maybe they got the wrong tomb.   That someone was playing a cruel trick on them.   Or maybe some other earthly explanation.   The evidence was there – if only they could interpret it correctly.   They could hav...

(Maundy Thursday)  Revelation 3:14-22 “Jesus' Letter to Laodicea” 14 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation. 15 “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. 17 For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. 19 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. 21 The one who...