
CHECK THE ROCK REPORT
Mark 15:46 So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. The Easter story started with Jesus experiencing a betrayal, a humiliating trial, a beating and the horror and agony of the cross. His broken, lifeless body was taken down from the cross, tenderly wrapped in linen, and laid in the borrowed tomb of a rich man named Joseph. A huge stone was r

ROCKS CRY OUT
Luke 19:36 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!” “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.” NIV Isn’t it interesting tha

THERE IS ROOM AT THE CROSS
In John 19, we find Jesus on a hill outside of Jerusalem crucified on a tree. Even as His body was writhing in pain beyond anything we could possibly even begin to imagine, Jesus was concerned about His mother. “Woman...here is your son”….“John, here is your mother.” John 19:16-27 And in that single moment a new family was born!! John and Mary were not related. In fact, though they were both Jews, they were very different. They were from different families, different tribes a

HOW BEAUTIFUL THE CROSS
John 19: 16-27 …Pilate turned Jesus over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus away. Carrying the cross by Himself, He went to the place called Place of the Skull (in Hebrew, Golgotha). There they nailed Him to the cross. In today’s culture the cross is an emblem we wear in gold around our necks, stain artfully in glass in our cathedrals and frame in carve wood in colorful paintings in our homes. But in Jesus’ day, the cross was the symbol of a death sentence. The horri