51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”[g]
55″Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”[h] 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Deep spiritual reality with profound implication for social transformation - The resurrection was an act of civil disobedience… Punishable by death! (Jim Wallis) - He is Risen and Rising! shalom - dave.
Happy Easter, this continues to be one of the few sites that i check every single day, so thanks to Dan for telling us Irish Hoodlams about it and for you as the genius who makes us laugh
Wahooo! hahaha. this is awesome. Thank God eh?!!
Have you seen that recent Wheres Wally type book called “Wheres Bin Laden”? I think you could do an equally popular Wheres Jesus version!!! Hmmm… there could be some potent scenes… Jesus in Soho, Jesus in guantanamo bay, hey even Jesus selling Onions. (well enough for a calender at least
thanks Jon
hey there peeps… for all those who have not seen it… ‘where’s waldo?’ or (in GB) ‘where’s wally?’ is a kids book… you have to find wally/waldo amongst many other characters in an illustration. waldo/wally wears red and white stripes.
hey, lucy ar… i’ve had that same thought for a while. nice one… it’s a good idea!
″Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
Ben (7) - I love that one, too. It’s so triumphal with a soupçon of defiance. I always think it sounds a bit “Up yours, Death, you t*ss*r!”…OK, so you won’t find that in many translations of the Bible…I never claimed to be conventional.
Looking at the vaguely egg shaped stone and the empty tomb, it calls to mind the fact that Cadbury’s Buttons eggs no longer have the little bag of buttons inside the egg. How disappointing.
in an orthodox baptismal service the liturgy requires you to spit on satans head. cool.
hey carole… they never put the buttons or the cream eggs or the mini eggs inside the big egg anymore. it’s rubbish now! i’ll bet it’s something to do with health and safety!
Either that or it’s cheaper to do it that way. I don’t know what those fiends at Nestle do with the Smarties. Perhaps someone can enlighten me.
Don’t you think the whole Nestle thing is quite sad? You know the stories of the great chocolate men (not chocolate men, you uderstand!) like Rowntree are tainted by association with Nestle. And I don’t even know if the other choccy manufacturers are any more wholesome in their activities. Do you ever wish everyday life was more simple?
embarrassingly this must be the one I have found most entertaining and connect most with.
I got the “where’s wally?” cultural reference immediately (although sadly my mum+brother didn’t at all!). **Please make more non-religious cultural references/symbolism like this!** It’s powerful!
I have a story to share about explaining Easter to a non-Christian college roommate (Japanese, grew up in a Tibetan Buddhist community in India so she didn’t have much contact with Western culture!)
“Easter is the day Jesus goes into the hole, right?”
“No, Easter is the day Jesus comes out of the hole, Good Friday was the day he went into the hole.”
[pause]
“What’s up with that bunny?”
I didn’t have time to explain about ancient European paganism and cultural assimilation as I was going to an American friend’s house for the weekend…
LOL
Comment by Erik — March 23, 2008 @ 12:19 am
Happy Easter everyone.
Comment by Phil — March 23, 2008 @ 12:22 am
He is risen indeed!
Comment by B. — March 23, 2008 @ 12:41 am
What B. said!!
Comment by Robb — March 23, 2008 @ 12:43 am
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Pingback by Chris Baker - my ramble of thoughts... — March 23, 2008 @ 3:48 am
praise God. whenever people talk about the resurrection it gets me pumped!
i think my favourite scripture on the resurrection is in 1 Corinthians 15.
Comment by ben — March 23, 2008 @ 4:46 am
51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”[g]
55″Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”[h] 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Comment by ben — March 23, 2008 @ 4:48 am
Deep spiritual reality with profound implication for social transformation - The resurrection was an act of civil disobedience… Punishable by death! (Jim Wallis) - He is Risen and Rising! shalom - dave.
Comment by Dave Wiles — March 23, 2008 @ 5:25 am
Er ist wahrhaftig auferstenden!
Comment by Angela — March 23, 2008 @ 5:49 am
happy easter all!
dave wiles… very profound!
Comment by jonbirch — March 23, 2008 @ 6:22 am
love the where’s wally/ jesus!
Thanks Jon for making me smile
Comment by soniamain — March 23, 2008 @ 7:46 am
I’ve found Jesus!
He was behind he sofa all along…
thanks for the laugh Jon, Happy Easter everyone.
xx
Comment by amywatson — March 23, 2008 @ 8:18 am
Always new Jesus was an Arsenal supporter, or could that be a Sunderland top!
Happy Easter Everyone.
Comment by Susan — March 23, 2008 @ 9:11 am
When is a body not a body?
When it is a risen.
(rest of that Steve Turner poem on my blog..)
Happy Easter one and all.
Ax
Comment by AnneDroid — March 23, 2008 @ 9:16 am
Happy Easter, this continues to be one of the few sites that i check every single day, so thanks to Dan for telling us Irish Hoodlams about it and for you as the genius who makes us laugh
Happy Easter
He is Risen
ally
Comment by ally simpson — March 23, 2008 @ 10:10 am
thanks ally!
susan… of course jesus is a gooner!
have a good day y’all!
Comment by jonbirch — March 23, 2008 @ 10:13 am
Bwana Sifewe! (swahili)
Preis den Herrn! (german)
Hallelujah! (hebrew)
PRAISE THE LORD!
Comment by Frederick — March 23, 2008 @ 12:56 pm
Jesus looks too much like He should be selling onions at a French market!
Ooh la la - Il est monté
Comment by marcus — March 23, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
Jesus as a candy cane - me like.
Comment by becky — March 23, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
Wheres Jesus?… In my heart.
Comment by Rachel — March 23, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
Wahooo! hahaha. this is awesome. Thank God eh?!!
Have you seen that recent Wheres Wally type book called “Wheres Bin Laden”? I think you could do an equally popular Wheres Jesus version!!! Hmmm… there could be some potent scenes… Jesus in Soho, Jesus in guantanamo bay, hey even Jesus selling Onions. (well enough for a calender at least
thanks Jon
Comment by Lucy Ar — March 23, 2008 @ 3:48 pm
Very good!
Good thing you didn’t make it too close to the Waldo books.
Or I never would have found him…
Comment by ron — March 23, 2008 @ 5:49 pm
Very good jon
Interesting to see Jesus’ tomb was actually a bijou garden summer house that clearly went on to inspire the career of Diarmuid Gavin!
Comment by iaincotton — March 23, 2008 @ 8:00 pm
stripes are so in
Comment by su — March 23, 2008 @ 8:11 pm
Happy Easter, but why does that discipley person look like Dennis the Menace?
Comment by brunettekoala — March 23, 2008 @ 9:14 pm
hey there peeps… for all those who have not seen it… ‘where’s waldo?’ or (in GB) ‘where’s wally?’ is a kids book… you have to find wally/waldo amongst many other characters in an illustration. waldo/wally wears red and white stripes.
hey, lucy ar… i’ve had that same thought for a while. nice one… it’s a good idea!
hi frederick… do you speak all those languages?
Comment by jonbirch — March 24, 2008 @ 12:02 am
He is risen indeed, alleluia! alleluia!
″Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
Ben (7) - I love that one, too. It’s so triumphal with a soupçon of defiance. I always think it sounds a bit “Up yours, Death, you t*ss*r!”…OK, so you won’t find that in many translations of the Bible…I never claimed to be conventional.
Comment by Carole — March 24, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
Looking at the vaguely egg shaped stone and the empty tomb, it calls to mind the fact that Cadbury’s Buttons eggs no longer have the little bag of buttons inside the egg. How disappointing.
Comment by Carole — March 24, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
in an orthodox baptismal service the liturgy requires you to spit on satans head. cool.
hey carole… they never put the buttons or the cream eggs or the mini eggs inside the big egg anymore. it’s rubbish now! i’ll bet it’s something to do with health and safety!
Comment by jonbirch — March 24, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
Either that or it’s cheaper to do it that way. I don’t know what those fiends at Nestle do with the Smarties. Perhaps someone can enlighten me.
Don’t you think the whole Nestle thing is quite sad? You know the stories of the great chocolate men (not chocolate men, you uderstand!) like Rowntree are tainted by association with Nestle. And I don’t even know if the other choccy manufacturers are any more wholesome in their activities. Do you ever wish everyday life was more simple?
Comment by Carole — March 24, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
yes i do carole… bought a couple of pairs of jeans in the sale today for £15 each. i wonder where they were made.
Comment by jonbirch — March 24, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
Oompa loompa dumpety do I’ve got another puzzle for you…
Comment by Robb — March 24, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
Took me a while but - LOL for myself. Er ist wahrhaftig auferstanden!
Comment by Maggi — March 24, 2008 @ 6:33 pm
embarrassingly this must be the one I have found most entertaining and connect most with.
I got the “where’s wally?” cultural reference immediately (although sadly my mum+brother didn’t at all!). **Please make more non-religious cultural references/symbolism like this!** It’s powerful!
Comment by Pete C — March 24, 2008 @ 11:52 pm
maggi… glad you got there in the end.
pete c… cheers. hopefully you’ll have noticed the mr. happy and copious batmans. thanks for your thoughts, i will process them.
Comment by jonbirch — March 24, 2008 @ 11:58 pm
Jon-
Thanks I look at your stuff everyday! I am in seminary and it often directly relates to what I spend all my time thinking about. Thanks!
Comment by valharle — March 25, 2008 @ 2:28 am
ahhhh. I remember Wally. It all makes sense now!!!
Sorry!
Comment by brunettekoala — March 25, 2008 @ 10:41 pm
haha! wekcome to the party brunettekoala!
Comment by jonbirch — March 26, 2008 @ 12:42 am
valharie… you are welcome. where are you in seminary?
Comment by jonbirch — March 26, 2008 @ 12:43 am
I love it
Comment by Amanda — March 27, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
thanks amanda.
Comment by jonbirch — March 27, 2008 @ 5:05 pm
I have a story to share about explaining Easter to a non-Christian college roommate (Japanese, grew up in a Tibetan Buddhist community in India so she didn’t have much contact with Western culture!)
“Easter is the day Jesus goes into the hole, right?”
“No, Easter is the day Jesus comes out of the hole, Good Friday was the day he went into the hole.”
[pause]
“What’s up with that bunny?”
I didn’t have time to explain about ancient European paganism and cultural assimilation as I was going to an American friend’s house for the weekend…
Happy Jesus-comes-out-of-the-hole Day!
Comment by Xenobiologista — April 3, 2008 @ 1:40 am