Walking the Way: A daily devotional

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 ...

Scripture is full of people who have taken a risk for God. In Exodus 1, we read of the Hebrew midwives who spared the lives of male Hebrew baby boys. We read of Hannah in Samuel and Esther in, well, the book of Esther. We read of Deborah, the judge, Mary Magdalene, who was the first to meet the resurrected Jesus. Lydia, the mother of Timothy. But in the 2 biblical passages (Exodus 2, Luke 2:33-35) I believe we have two of the most remarkable women in history. Both these women have helped shape the world as we know it. Both women were mothers to sons who would forever change the world. Jochebed was the name of the woman who gave birth to Moses and then in a twist of fate became his nanny. Mary was the name of the young Jewish girl who took the risk of believing God and becoming the mother of the saviour of the world: Jesus. I don’t think I need to mention what impact both men had on history. We know more about Mary than we do about Jochebed. History has been much kinder to moth...