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Key Bible Verse: I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die like everyone else, will live again" (John 11:25).

With conviction and compassion, Billy Graham has spent a lifetime driving home the truth of Christ being God, his payment for sins on the cross, and the power of his resurrection. Banking everything on this historic reality, he has urged the lost to accept Christ into their lives so they can have assurance of being, at death, resurrected into God's eternal home.

In his book, Angels, he wrote, "The angel who came to the garden where Jesus' body lay, rolled away the stone and permitted fresh air and morning light to fill his tomb. The sepulcher was no longer an empty vault … rather it was a life-affirming place that radiated the glory of the living God. No longer was it a dark prison but a transformed reminder of the celestial light that sweeps aside the shadows of death."

Graham also described the light that filled his maternal grandmother's room when she died. She suddenly sat up in bed and "almost laughingly said, 'I see Jesus. He has his arms outstretched toward me. I see Ben (her husband who had died years earlier) and the angels.'" She slumped over, released from her body and bound for God's eternal home.

—James Hilt in Wisconsin

My Good Friday Response: What do I see as the link between Christ's resurrection and mine?

Thought to Apply: The resurrection is an event of overwhelming joy: God acts; Jesus appears; the disciples are transformed. —David Ford (author)

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Thank you, Jesus, for glimpses of your divinity, with markers of your humanity retained, that preview life eternal for us.

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