https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2011/04/19/easter-ideas-iv/ Reflections on preaching, communication and story Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2011/04/19/easter-ideas-iv/#comment-672 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:14:27 +0000 http://richardlittledale.wordpress.com/?p=2302#comment-672 […] his death in the film. This is what I have tried to do every time I get out my little piece of Serbian lace, as I shall do later this morning. This is what artist Maggi Hambling has tried to do with her […]

]]> https://archive.richardlittledale.co.uk/2011/04/19/easter-ideas-iv/#comment-671 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:58:57 +0000 http://richardlittledale.wordpress.com/?p=2302#comment-671 Resurrection is only outside our experience if we push it back into the past or forward to ‘life after death’. See Harry Williams ‘True Resurrection’.
But if we think about resurrection in the here and now, then we are all in need of ‘resurrection’ in our spiritual, moral, and religious lives, and many of us have experienced it, when something that seemed dead and finished came back to life through the grace of God. Trouble is, to get to resurrection you have to go through death first – and most of us would rather not do that

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