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Story Archives: Dianne Cage: April 21, 2011


Dianne Cage: April 21, 2011
by Dianne Cage - posted E-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
"He arose, he arose..up up from the grave, he arose." I love that Fannie Crosby hymn! In fact anything Fannie wrote, those popping, hopping hymns, I always enjoy. It has a nice beat and the tune is happy and Mike Cage really gets with it. He has a wonderful church voice, he can go from a baritone and back to an ally cat tenor. He is fun to sit by in church. He is a good whistler too!

Happy Easter! I was reading my Daily Word for this Easter Day and I will share. "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins." 1 Corinthians 15:17
"Israel's Roman occupiers had an answer for troublemakers: nail them to the cross! The cross should have been the end of Jesus, scattering his friends and followers. It took amazing courage for the women to come near Jesus' borrowed grave site. But what they discovered would turn the world upside down: "He is not here; for he has risen."

Resurrection lies outside the realm of ordinary proof. But sometimes proof can come from something neither visible nor understood. (The writer gives an example of one of Einstein's predictions.) So consider Jesus' dispirited disciples and friends hiding, fearing for their lives. Yet they become a force that changed the world. Something changed them profoundly! We cannot prove or even fully comprehend the Resurrection, but we can see its effect as the disciples experienced Jesus alive again.
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Dianne Cage writes a bi-weekly lifestyle column for The Ouachita Citizen. She and her husband, Mike Cage, live in Monroe.


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