“Easter is not about the return of the robin in spring or crocuses or a butterfly coming out of the cocoon...It’s about a body that somehow got loose. The gospel accounts strain to describe what happened, but don’t make any mistake about it, they’re trying to describe something unearthy -- DEATH WORKING BACKWARD.”
--William Willimon

Zechariah 11:12b-13
12…So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. 13And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the Lord.

Acts 26:17b-18
17…I am sending you to them 18to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not."
-- Blaise Pascal

"Belief is a wise wager...what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation."
-- Blaise Pascal

Luke 24:31a-32
31Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him…32They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”