Easter 2009 | Jeff Miles | April 12, 2009
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Topics: financial problems, bankrupt businesses, foreclosed homes, people losing jobs, retirement hopes vanishing, hit bottom, life consists of more than the accumulation of stuff, we’ve grown deaf to important things, hope, not only for this life, last forever, Easter, kind of hero they wanted, not the kind of hero they needed, Israel, conquered nation, iron boot, roman empire, good life, here and now, overthrow roman oppressors, Jesus, sin, death, misunderstood, resurrection, Johnny Cash, common man, downtrodden, man in black, Gospel singer, Billy Graham, autobiography, still a Christian, complicated, walking contradiction, music video, Hurt, epitaph, King Solomon, Ecclesiastes, vanity, storing up treasures in heaven, that vapor, live for the glory of God, not glory of self, Palm Sunday, Jerusalem, popularity, king’s welcome, donkey colt, Hosanna, save now, Pilate, king of the Jews, My kingdom is not of this world, political platform, world power, American dream, hearts, new life, garden of Gethsemane, hopes faded, terribly wrong, condemned to die, beaten, flogged, executed, crucified, wooden cross, hanging, public shame, how it had to be, planned from the moment humanity tore itself from God, lost, took up our infirmities, stricken by God… pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, sealed burial tomb, Easter Sunday, stone rolled away, He has risen, resurrection important , sacrifice really counted, indestructible life, hold the keys to death, because I live, you also will live, News story, car bombing, Baghdad, Iraq, father, mother, 6 month old baby, survived, covered with his mother’s blood, vivid illustration, Jesus Christ has wrapped himself around us and shielded us from the heat of God’s judgment of humanity’s sin, substitutionary death, receive Him, savior, my empire of dirt. I will let you down, I will make you hurt. If I could start again a million miles away, I would start again