Pastor Taylor Shippy - Luke 24:1-34 - Easter Sunday 2024

So often we have this tendency to rush Easter, to get to the ‘good’ part, the ‘happily ever after;' however, the Gospels are not so quick to jump ahead. They linger. Stubbornly. Content to take it at a much slower pace, and as a result, force us to sit in the tension and unease and discomfort and pain of how frigid that first Easter morning felt. It’s almost like they want us to capture the slowness of Easter dawning on those present that day… And they’re forcing us to journey with Easter at the same pace as the original recipients of Easter… Whether we want to or not… And this got me wondering… What if that is how Easter is supposed to feel like? That it doesn’t occur to us on our schedule, it occurs on Someone else’s?