Consider your body

     "When our mortal bodies are not clamoring for attention, we ignore them. When they embarrass us, we're disappointed in them. When they age, we wish they didn't matter so much."

Article by Janie Cheaney

     "But the Resurrection says they do. Matter matters." She wrote that intellectuals centuries ago and today - philosophers, educators, and Satan - emphasized the mind. 

     "But Christ does not: Touch me and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have. 

     "Body and mind together. My body doesn't hold me prisoner. It holds my joy. Christ does not disregard this body - on the contrary, He loves it. He has big plans for it. He became a body. He formed His own body, birthed it, grew it, walked it through a short lifespan, and took it to the grave."

      "It was planned from the first moment in Creation when 'Let there be' brought forth earth, sky, water and rock, root and leaf, feather, fin and flesh. He breathed in the Fall and breathed out the New Creation, battle-tested, victorious and no longer bound by corruption."

     "For our song, turn to the hymn, Up From the Grave He Arose."