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This Sunday, Easter Sunday, we will finish our sermon series entitled, “Thy Kingdom Come: The Great Reversals of God’s Reign in Luke’s Gospel,” with one last Great Reversal that changes everything! 

The text we will explore together is Luke 24:1-12, where we find a group of faithful women going to the tomb of Jesus to perform one final act of devotion before beginning the long road back to Galilee. Arriving at the tomb, they find the stone rolled away and the grave empty...At a loss for words, two messengers arrive on the scene with the good news: "Jesus is not here, he is risen!"

The reality-altering report of resurrection, brings these women from the margins of Jesus ministry to center-stage as the first witnesses and preachers of the good news of the empty tomb. 

An empty tomb still leaves us at a loss for words. When we hear reports of empty tombs, we dismiss them as nonsense. When we come to empty tombs, stoop inside, and look around, the emptiness fills us with an unnerving awe. We wonder, "where is Jesus," and we wait for the risen Lord to be revealed.