Resurrection Sunday!

On that Friday long ago, before it was known as Good Friday, the authorities figured that they were done with Jesus. What they did not count on was Resurrection Sunday!

A Prayer begins . . .

Our Father in Heaven, we are grateful you were willing to give your only son to die a terrible death so that we might have eternal life with you. We salute Resurrection Sunday.

The quotations on our website are carefully chosen. They come from books we highly recommend. The Buechner quotation directly below is profound! It ties into the SoAmazing Card on this page. And if you've ever wondered about miracles, read what Max Lucado has to say in the second quotation!

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Two selected book quotations begin . . .

Good Friday

Frederick Buechner, compiled by George Conner, Listening to Your Life, Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner, Harper San Francisco, 1992.    SoAmazing.com

Category: Inspiration
Keywords: God, son, loved, death, eternal life, resurrection, eternity, Jesus Christ, kingdom, Christian, Good News, cross, Good Friday, Harper San Francisco, Buechner, Frederick Buechner, Conner, George Conner

" 'God so Loved the world,' John writes, 'that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.' That is to say that God so loved the world that he gave his only son even to this obscene horror; so loved the world that in some ultimately indescribable way and some ultimately immeasurable cost he gave the world himself. Out of this terrible death, John says, came eternal life, not just in the sense of resurrection to life after death but in the sense of life so precious even this side of death, that to live it is to stand with one foot already in eternity. To participate in the sacrificial life and death of Jesus Christ is to live already in his kingdom. This is the essence of the Christian message, the heart of the Good News, and it is why the cross has become the chief Christian symbol. A cross of all things--a guillotine, a gallows--but the cross at the same time as the crossroads of eternity and time, as the place where such a mighty heart was broken that the healing power of God himself could flow through it into a sick and broken world. It was for this reason that of all the possible words they could have used to describe the day of his death, the word they settled on was 'good.' Good Friday."

SoAmazing Review: Listening to Your Life is a collection of Buechner's writings compiled by George Conner. For those who have read Buechner it is a fitting reminder. For those new to Buechner it serves as an excellent introduction to an outstanding writer.

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An Art Gallery of Divine Creativity

Max Lucado, God Came Near, Multnomah Press, 1987, pp. 84, 85.    SoAmazing.com

Category: Christian Living
Keywords: uniqueness, miracles, God, shocking, deity, testimonies, divine creativity, signs, vaudeville magician, beauty, seashells, Jesus, His Majesty, Multnomah Press, Lucado, Max Lucado

"In fact, it is the normality not the uniqueness of God's miracles that causes them to be so staggering. Rather than shocking the globe with an occasional demonstration of deity, God has opted to display his power daily. Proverbially. Pounding waves. Prism-cast colors. Birth, death, life. We are surrounded by miracles. God is throwing testimonies at us like fireworks, each one exploding, 'God is! God is!'

The psalmist marveled at such holy handiwork. 'Where can I go from your Spirit?' he questioned with delight. 'Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.'

We wonder, with so many miraculous testimonies around us, how we could escape God. But somehow we do. We live in an art gallery of divine creativity and yet are content to gaze only at the carpet.

Or what is pathetically worse, we demand MORE. More signs. More proof. More hat tricks. As if God were some vaudeville magician we could summon for a dollar.

How have we grown so dear? How have we grown so immune to awesomeness? Why are we so reluctant to be staggered or thunderstruck?

Perhaps the frequency of the miracles blinds us to their beauty. After all, what spice is there in a springtime or a tree blossom? Don't the seasons come every year? Aren't there countless seashells just like this one?

Bored, we say Ho-hum and replace the remarkable with the regular, the unbelievable with the anticipated. Science and statistics wave their unmagic wand across the face of life, squelching the oohs and aahs and replacing them with formulas and figures.

Would you like to see Jesus? Do you dare be an eyewitness of His Majesty? Then rediscover amazement.

The next time you hear a baby laugh or see an ocean wave, take note. Pause and listen as His Majesty whispers ever so gently, 'I'm here.' "

SoAmazing Review: In God Came Near a fresh case for God's existence is made. Awestruck by God's many, mighty miracles occurring so regularly they are taken for granted, Lucado declares God's magnificence!

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