{"id":6432,"date":"2023-04-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/?p=6432"},"modified":"2023-04-09T08:17:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T13:17:54","slug":"easter-sunday-a-path-through-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/09\/easter-sunday-a-path-through-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Sunday &#8211; A Path Through Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Easter Sunday - A Path Through Lent\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mEuvwD1DPzo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Easter Sunday: John 20:1-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, \u201cThey have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.\u201d Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus\u2019s head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed, for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holy Week &#8211; Week 7: Sacrifice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke 9:23-25 says, &#8220;Then he said to them all, &#8216;If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves'&#8221; Practicing sacrifice, and it is something we must practice, is not a comfortable place to be. As Jesus said, it may involve shame, losing one\u2019s life or lifestyle. And if we are called to follow Jesus\u2019 example, we follow in the way of sacrifice. In preaching about the Good Samaritan, Martin Luther King, Jr. said, \u201cThe first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: &#8216;If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?&#8217; But\u2026the good Samaritan reversed the question: &#8216;If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?\u2019\u201d Sacrifice involves putting the needs of others before our own. So, let us be able to reflect on the sacrifice we experience this week. What do we learn by going into, through and out the other end of suffering?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter Sunday: John 20:1-10 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-6432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jenkins-discipleship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenkinscp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}