Our Lord is risen, is risen indeed! Everything about this morning testifies to that fact: the music, the scripture readings, the floral displays, the general excitement of this very special day. Yes, the Lord is risen, risen indeed.

            Nevertheless, some of you may feel just a bit let down. You’re perhaps disappointed in the scripture text from which I’m preaching, this story from the book of Acts. You would have preferred that I preach today from one of the familiar stories of the first Easter — like Peter and John entering the empty tomb, or the two disciples with whom Jesus walked on the road to Emmaus on the late afternoon of the first Easter, or — especially! — when Mary Magdalene saw our Lord on that resurrection morning. I suspect many of you would have preferred one of those texts today, and I understand your feelings.

            Furthermore, if you pay attention to sermon titles (not everybody does!), you may have decided that I’m short on imagination this Sunday: “Easter Is Today!” Of course it is! This is an announcement of the obvious. You don’t need me to tell you that Easter is today.

            Well, maybe you do. And maybe I need to remind myself. So stay with me as I tell you an Easter story.

Another Easter story

            It happened some months after the first Easter. Perhap

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