Churches so often spend weeks preparing for Easter by placing great emphasis upon the Lenten season. But after Easter is over, the programming goes quickly on to other unrelated things. There’s not usually a correspondingly strong emphasis on the traditional Easter season which lasts from Easter Sunday to Pentecost.
Andrew Walker in his book, Journey into Joy, objects to this practice. He suggests that in analogy to the stations of the cross often used to celebrate Lent, we should observe stations of the resurrection! His short devotional book devoted to this theme is organized into chapters called stations of the resurrection. Most chapters focus on one passage of Scripture that describes an appearance of Christ after the resurrection. This is in the spirit of the apostles’ teaching as they were very careful to account for the appearances of Christ and to pass on that information. This practice is illustrated by the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8.
Journey into Joy Series — The Proclamation of the Appearances of the Resurrected Christ
Journey into Joy Series — The Ascension
Journey into Joy Series — Pentecost
Journey into Joy Series — The Revelation to Paul
Journey into Joy Series — The Appearance on the Mountain
Journey into Joy Series — The Questions to Peter
Journey into Joy Series — The Appearance on the Shore of Galilee
Journey into Joy Series – Christ Appears to Thomas
Journey into Joy Series – Christ Appears to the Disciples
Journey into Joy Series — The Road to Emmaus
Journey into Joy Series — The Denial of the Resurrection
Journey into Joy Series — Christ Appears to Mary Magdalene
Journey Into Joy Series: The Angel Speaks to the Women
Journey Into Joy Series: The Discovery of the Empty Tomb
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