Resurection Stories

“Coming Face to Face With Jesus”

A few weeks ago I was talking with a friend of mine – a young guy about 30 years old. We were talking about God-stuff and applying it to our lives when all of a sudden he looks at me with a smile on his face and a sparkle in his eye and says, “Imagine how it would change you if you came face to face with Jesus right now! Wouldn’t that be amazing?

What do you think? What if YOU came face to face with Jesus right now?

In the next few weeks, we are going to focus on people who actually did come face to face with Jesus AFTER He rose from the dead. We are going to see – and just perhaps marvel – how He connected with them in their tears and fears, doubts and emptiness, offering and giving to them new life in relationship with Him and with it peace and certainty, hope and fullness, direction and power. We will see how it changed them and the difference it made in their lives....And how it can for you and me as well as through these stories the living Jesus mysteriously comes face to face with you and me!

For the “Resurrection stories do not end with those we read in the Bible. I see and hear them every day! They are happening all over the world as well as right in front of us, even in our own lives! Jesus came, finally, to bring His story into our stories of brokenness, emptiness, doubts, fears, and death! Jesus is alive and He is on the move! Through these stories by the power of the Holy Spirit He comes “face to face “with each of us to give each of us our own “Resurrection Story!” Where do you especially need this in your life?