The Resurrection Story
The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
4.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
After spending a few minutes remembering the joys of celebrating Easter last weekend, Dan and Rachael turn to the text to walk through the resurrection story. In today’s episode, you’ll hear them step back into what the resurrection brings, which is “deadly serious play” as we get to stand before evil and darkness and say, “Oh death, where is your sting?”
Listener Resources
- Read Luke 24
- Listen to last week’s episode, “Disruption and Defiance in the Resurrection”
Read a blog post published last spring that discusses themes of Holy Saturday titled “Noticing the Dead Things”
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm Dr. Dan Allender. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen. |
| 0:10.5 | We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world. |
| 0:14.7 | And restoration for the heart. |
| 0:17.2 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:18.5 | Let's get this conversation started. |
| 0:27.3 | Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Well, Dan, as we... |
| 0:29.6 | This conversation on resurrection, I would love to hear how your Easter was. |
| 0:36.1 | My Easter was fabulous. |
| 0:38.8 | First of all, we had many of our grandchildren, which is unusual in the Seattle area during that season. |
| 0:51.4 | And Becky prompts each of them, especially the very young. She prepares them to carry |
| 0:58.2 | up weeks before so that they can go through the process of an Easter egg hunt. Look, |
| 1:08.6 | the whole notion of the Easter bunny. I get it. I get Christians who are offended by |
| 1:13.2 | it's a freaking metaphor, a fecundity, of the idea of life, growing life. And yeah, bunnies have more |
| 1:23.5 | bunnies, but also they lay eggs and they're to be found. |
| 1:27.9 | And the joy of our grandchildren rushing around. |
| 1:33.8 | You know, the older having to deal with a little bit of patience to not push the younger |
| 1:38.9 | down, you know, the adults all running around trying to get children on film. |
| 1:45.5 | It's chaos. |
| 1:46.9 | It's this glorious amorphous chaos. |
| 1:50.0 | So thank you. |
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