Luke 24:37-38

They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost.  He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?

From Background Notes [BN] for April 4th & 5th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

When we evaluate the followers of Jesus as presented in this narrative, they appear as grieving, wondering and perplexed human beings, having recently been overtaken by the tragedy of Jesus’ humiliating crucifixion against the backdrop of their own cowardice and fear.

They appear in the story as clueless and passive in the face of events which they are powerless to change. Then suddenly, without warning or premonition, they are confronted with a fresh reality unlike anything they had known before. Evidence unaccounted for by any ordinary cause piles up in front of them. [BN,4]

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* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am, 10am (FX) and 11:15am