What is our Easter Hope?  Not for candy or anything shaped like an egg or from a bunny!  Our hope is in life and life to come!  The most famous line “He is risen – He is risen indeed!” is recorded in Luke 24:34 “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” (ESV) and reaches back in recorded history to Mary Magdalene when she addressed Emperor Tiberius in Rome with the words “Christ is risen.”  Her bold declaration may be truth or legend but these the words are translated almost the same in every version of Scripture from the Latin Vulgate (400ad) to the ESV (2001) that I included above.  Our hope is in Christ Alone – we have no other.  Sunday I will take us into 3 parables Jesus gave in Mark 4 – not the traditional resurrection verses but rather these are focused on our hope in Christ – He is light – He is promise – He is great!  All these themes are seen leading up to the greatest event in history – the Resurrection of the Son of God – Jesus Christ.  

He is risen – He is risen indeed!