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He Is Risen! An Easter Mediation

He is risen! The Lord is risen! This is the simple but glorious gospel of Easter. This rising was a moment in a single redemptive process. "He is risen" was spoken by an angel and addressed to women seeking Jesus in a Palestinian garden at dawn. The words suggest other words spoken by another angel at an earlier time, words addressed to shepherds tending their flocks in a Palestinian field at night. "Be not afraid," the angel had said to…
Henry Stob
April 16, 2004
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The Amazing Love of God!

Even though I attempted a sermon on this text nearly thirty years ago, it is still not without fear and trembling that I attempt to make an explanation of it now. Because under the surface of these beautiful and memorable words which have brought comfort and peace to untold thousands of penitent sinners, there lies the never completely penetrable depth of God's mysterious dealings with a race of men estranged from Him. To consider this text at all is to…
Henry Stob
November 16, 2003