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-Tuesday, April 3, 2018.
+Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Easter days are behind us, how did you spend the last
+weekend? Often, Christians have particular celebrations of the Easter day. Some
+meet early in the morning, to see the sunrise. The new light is like an image of
+much more important and deeper events, the resurrection of Jesus about 2000
+years ago. What did YOU do?
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-**  ...**
+** Something completely new! ...**
+Let us look at one of the resurrection accounts, as written in the Gospel of Luke,
+chapter 24. It happened at early dawn, we hear the following:
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-For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
+But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. 5 And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?
-</color> (Psalm 100, Verse 5)
+</color> (Lukas 24, 1ff)
+Why do you seek the living among the dead? So often we think of faith as a dead
+story. So often we think that life is to be found in more active things, ... and
+each and everyone of us has his or her own ideas of what that is to him. But we
+could not be less on the right track. Life comes from God, from the creator. And
+it is with God, with the creator. He gave it to Jesus, new life, a different life,
+eternal life! Let us think more about this ...
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+** Believe ...**
+It is interesting to think about the resurrection. I believe it is true. I think
+that something special happened that day, on the third day after the crucifiction
+of Jesus. I believe that God did something new, something special.
+Yet, what is my belief worth? What does it mean? Is it just a thought: yes, it
+happened? Or is it more? A faith which is merely a thought about what might have
+been, is it more worth than the thought, that it might not have been? It is
+only worth something if it has meaning and if it changes my life!
+And that is what faith in Jesus is about. It is not a thought that something might
+be fact. It is a transforming power. He is alife, and he wants to be in my life
+as well. He wants to be there as a changing force, changing my mind, my feelings,
+my actions, my words, everything. That is what faith is about: Gods presence in
+my life, his changing presence!
+It is good to think about it. If my faith is merely some thought about what might
+be reality, it is nothing. But if it is a driving force to be full of truth, full
+of love, full of wisdom, full of perspective and hope and future, then it is
+something. If it links me to the beginning and the end, to the eternal God, then
+I have found.
 (Roland Potthast)
 [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/topics_collection_ix|... further texts]]
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