Chris Whittington

We consider Your cross, Jesus, and how hopeless it once appeared, and we rejoice in Your transforming power that brought about victory and new life from such a moment of darkness and despair. We will say, “Jesus has triumphed! Jesus is exalted!”

Glad to go to church today and celebrate on this fifth Sunday of Easter. He is not here, He has risen just as He said He would!

Woke up today with the words “satan wants to sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail” in my head. This reference, from Luke 22:31-34, in which Jesus tells Simon that, although Simon pronounces his willingness to go to jail and even die for Jesus, Simon will deny Him three times that day. Lord, strengthen us in our faith, that we may cling to You, knowing You and the power of Your resurrection, sharing in Your sufferings and becoming like You in Your death. Amen

Grateful to God that in the midst of the damaged and broken relationships which occur in this life, He also gives us a few unbroken ones and even repairs and restores others. Thank You, Father, for Your continual grace and mercy which we do not deserve and will never earn. He is risen!

I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.-Charles Colson

Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection, because it is entirely uncontrived. They do not invite us to look at themselves, as they invite us to look at the empty tomb and the collapsed graveclothes and the Lord whom they had seen. We can see the change in them without being asked to look. The men who figure in the pages of the Gospels are new and different men in the Acts of the Apostles, the New Testament book that tells the story of the first Christians. The death of their Master left them despondent, disillusioned and near to despair. But in Acts they emerge as those who risk their lives for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and who turn the world upside down. -John W Stott

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen. -Mother Teresa

@pastordwl And also with you.

@chwhitt Thank you, and I pray that this week is filled with God’s peace and joy. Take care and God bless

It is a great truth that you will rise again. It is a sweeter truth that you will "always be with the Lord." Whatever else you draw comfort from, neglect not this deep, clear, and over-flowing well of delight. There are other sources of good cheer in connection with the glory to be revealed, for heaven is a many-sided joy, but still none can excel the glory of communion with Jesus Christ, wherefore comfort one another in the first place and most constantly, with these words, "So we will always be with the Lord.” -CH Spurgeon

Looking forward to going to church today to join with all the saints, across space and time, as we give thanks to the Resurrected Giver Of All Gifts. Glory to God in the highest and peace to His people on earth!!!

The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and Himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring His infinite beauty. -John Piper

The Kingdom of God is being established in this world, absolutely, but it's foolish to think that this is happening through rainbows and unicorns. Instead, Scripture teaches us that we are at war--not against people but against powers and principalities. With our freedom comes risk. We aren't immune from suffering or excused from the experience of being human simply because of our faith. And the truth remains: the crucified God, as personified in Jesus, revealed that God is always on the side of suffering wherever it is found and God's endgame is resurrection. -Sarah Bessey

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It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began. -Francine Rivers

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Left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entropy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second. -NT Wright

The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection. -John Calvin

The bloodline of Jesus Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race. The death and resurrection of the Son of God for sinners is the only sufficient power to bring the bloodlines of race into the single bloodline of the cross. -John Piper

He is risen! Glad to go to church today and give thanks to the risen Lord Jesus, Defeater Of Death and Light Of The World!

Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon His throne. Hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own. Awake, my soul, and sing of Him who died for thee, and hail Him as thy matchless King through all eternity!