EASTER REFLECTION
David Clarke offers an Easter reflection, reminding us that not only has Jesus risen, but he goes before us in all we do and his promises are true.
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on’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his
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disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you’” (Mark 16:6-7). Dr Billy Graham once recounted how an Austrian village was miraculously delivered from the army of
Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1813, Napoleon had invaded Austria, and advanced within six miles of the village of Feldkirch. The Austrian army was some miles away and it seemed as if the village would be occupied