Excerpt from Last Week's Sermon

The fact that women were the first to receive the announcement of the resurrection is significant when you think about the prevailing attitude toward women in that day. It was a male dominated society. Women really did not have a voice. As a matter of fact, in a court of law, the testimony of a woman was invalid. What they had to say did not matter. 

But, the angel (at the tomb of Jesus) tells Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome: “Go tell the others” what you have seen and what you have heard. You are the witnesses to what God has done. 

This is amazing to me. It reveals something about God’s character and nature. He gives the responsibility of communicating the most important and most shocking news in the world to those whom society overlooked. And it was their testimony that shocked the world in that day and ignited a movement that became an unstoppable force. This testimony, backed by the Holy Spirit, has spread from nation to nation and from generation to generation like ripples across the water… and it has reached us here in our day.

The content of their testimony is the very reason that we have gathered here.

Mark 16