May 3, 2011 — -- It is the Easter season. The news of the empty tomb is still settling. If we were in real time certainly the early followers of Christ are still trying to make sense of this.

Without an empty tomb, there would be no ground for saying that Jesus was physically raised. As we will see more fully in the next chapter, some early Christians believed that Jesus was raised in ...

Informed by Mary Magdalene that His tomb was empty following His crucifixion, Peter and “the other disciple whom Jesus loved” (John himself) rushed to the scene.

We can come out of sin, temptation and the very pit of hell if Jesus came out of the tomb. Let me remind you of Romans 8:11: “The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, lives inside of you.” ...

“We are letting an empty sanctuary remind us that an empty tomb was the first sign of resurrection,” said the Rev. Elizabeth Goodrich, a Presbyterian minister in Birmingham.

David Trinko | The Lima News Hannah Niese, a fourth-grade teacher at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School in Columbus Grove, shows pupils how to make "Resurrection Rolls" on Holy Thursday.

Churches were empty. Things were bleak. A pall was descending over our world, and we wondered if it would ever be lifted. In the last year, each of us has experienced some dark moments.