If you want to savor a good Mexican dinner, then don’t go to Giuseppe’s Restaurant. If want to read a good piece of literary achievement, I recommend you don’t turn to Dr. Seuss. If you wish to enjoy some quality acting, then visit the State Theater in Easton or the Zoellner Arts Center at Lehigh University – or simply turn on your TV and watch the current Presidential debates – either party. If you love to laugh from comedic entertainment, go to an Eagles game. If you love to cry, go to an Eagles game.
There are certain places you can go where you know what you’re going to see. You go to a zoo, you’ll see animals. You go to the Metropolitan Opera, you’ll see vocal and instrumental virtuosos. If you happen to come upon a massive interstate pile-up, you observe a parade of police cars, ambulances, EMTs and lawyers.
Similarly, if you attend a funeral, you expect to see a coffin or an urn. If you go to a cemetery, you expect to see grave markers.
Almost 2,000 yrs. ago, on an otherwise normal Sunday morn, three otherwise obscure women approached what they presumed to be a carefully-guarded, sealed tomb. They were hoping to gain entrance so they could show their love and respect to a recently deceased friend by applying the usual body perfumes. This would be like laying flowers on a grave today.
But what they expected to see upon arrival far exceeded anything they could’ve possibly imagined! Please consider spending your Easter morning with us as we unpack some of the mystery behind history’s greatest event, that singular distinctive that caused Christianity to burst onto the human stage, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.