{"id":374,"date":"2010-03-29T23:04:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog?p=374"},"modified":"2011-01-05T23:13:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T04:13:40","slug":"unique-telling-of-the-easter-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/29\/unique-telling-of-the-easter-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Telling of the Easter Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Monday.. and Happy Holy Week.<\/p>\n

“Happy”?<\/p>\n

Sure. It was a happy week, back in Jerusalem. Jesus rode into town; if we were there, we probably would have joined the happy throng with our palm-branches. Things turned ugly, the crowd was incited, Jesus was falsely accused. He was tortured, put on the cross, and died. Chances are that we — or at least I — would have been part of that crowd too. In fact, I sort of am, every time I sin.<\/p>\n

But it sure was a happy week, after all, because He rose from the dead. He took the sins we commit upon Himself… died the death we deserve… and conquered death so that we might live with Him. I’m happy; are you?<\/p>\n

Even Good Friday… etymologists speculate its origin was “God’s Friday”; maybe so. That willing, sacrificial death was Good indeed. Greater love hath no man than this.<\/p>\n

Here is possibly the most unique, certainly a most memorable, version of the Easter story you might ever see. A little account of a kid’s Easter pageant. Father and son; death and resurrection; humor and Truth.<\/p>\n

It is pianist Anthony Burger a few years ago talking about his five-year-old in an Easter pageant. Ironically, not long after this, Anthony himself died, suddenly, at the keyboard on a gospel-music cruise. His life was a mighty testimony… and so was his little boy’s story.<\/p>\n

Click:\u00a0 We Shall Behold<\/span> Him<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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