Easter Day Year A

HOLY WEEK: EASTER DAY

Matthew 28.1–10

Earthquakes, angels, women running to and fro, a strange command. A highly unlikely tale. Yes, indeed, and that’s the point. Nobody thought in the first century, and nobody should think now, that the point of the Easter story is that this is quite a reasonable thing to happen, that dead people really do rise if only we had the wit to see it, that it should be quite easy to believe it if only you thought about it for a few minutes. No. It was always a strange, crazy, wild story...

Taken from Lent For Everyone – Matthew Year A by Tom Wright (2011)

Published by SPCK

For resources that accompany this book visit http://bigbible.org.uk/

The #BigRead2011: meeting together in housegroups to read the Bible,
making use of Tom Wright's Matthew for Lent with opportunities to go
much bigger and much more creative and join in online (inter)nationally.
From quiet sitting rooms with Bibles and books, to coffee shops and
internet chatrooms across the world.