Sermon: 06.04.14 We are quickly coming up to Easter and the most important festival in the Christian Church. The four days that make up Easter are the most pivotal in history. And in case you think I can’t count I’ve included Maundy Thursday in that as without the events before Good Friday, Easter wouldn’t exist. And it is because Easter is so important it often is called into question. The last 200 years have seen a huge assault on the authenticity of the Easter accounts with all sorts of alternatives being put forward because the Easter story is about a man who died and then rose from the dead. I have been asked if Easter really happened the way the Bible tells us it did. Was it not a legend spun out by the followers of Jesus? And so today I want to look at sharing some of the information I have learnt reading up about this very special time in the life of the Church. Before I start I am indebted to Lee Strobel and his book “The Case for Easter” in providing the starting point ...