By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
One of the aggravating parts of being a biweekly publication is that holidays don’t always fall prior to a print issue. As a result, I did not publish a pre-Easter column. But, here’s the good news. Easter did not end on Sunday, April 4, at 11:59 p.m.
That is why I can write a column in the first issue after Easter (and every other issue of the year if I choose). Easter never ends.
Christians know the story of Mary Magdalene finding the empty tomb and running to tell Jesus’ disciples that He was no longer there. The key word here is “empty.” The tomb was empty because Jesus did what He said he would do — He arose from the grave. [Read more…]