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{ Thanks for joining me on episode 1,534 of the Inspired Stewardship Podcast. }

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{ I'm Kim Spencer. I challenge you to invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, your talent, and your treasures to live out your calling. Having the ability to get out of our own way and make the impact you really want to make is the key.}

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{And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this The Inspired Stewardship Podcast with my friend Scott Mader.}

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{ And when things are terrible, when things are going crazy, when things are topsy-turvy, we can find confidence and find hope in the feeling of the event, the feeling of recognizing that Christ is risen. }

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{ Christ is risen indeed. Welcome and thank you for joining us on the Inspired Stewardship Podcast. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent, and your treasures for your true calling.}

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{In the inspired Stewardship podcast, you will learn to invest in yourself. Invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world.}

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{In today's spiritual foundation episode, I talk about Luke chapter 24 verses one through 12. I share how women share in the resurrection event and also share how we can find ourselves in the feelings of the event. Luke 24 verses one through 12 says. But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices that they had }

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{ prepared.}

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{They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, why do you look for the living among the dead?}

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{He is not here but has risen. Remember how he told you while he was still in Galilee, that the son of man must be handed over to the hands of sinners and be crucified, and on the third day rise again? Then they remembered his words, and in returning from the tomb, they told all of this to the 11 and to all the rest.}

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{Now it was Mary Magdalene, Jonah, Mary, the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. But Peter got up and ran to the tomb stooping and looking in. He saw the linen closed by themselves, that he went home amazed at what had happened.}

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{I. The }

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{ Easter story, so familiar, so comforting in so many ways. Something that we look forward to and know is coming. But all too often it's something that we also lose sight of and lose track of it. Listening to it, we stop thinking about how it would've felt to have been there. The feeling that we must have had of that experience, listening and living in the real world, and not knowing what was happening, not knowing what was going on, how the women must have felt confused, afraid, overwhelmed, concerned, all of these different emotions coming through them, they simply had gone there to tend the body.}

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{Of their master, their rabbi, their teacher. And instead of finding him there, they found two men in glowing white clothes and other versions of the story. }

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{ They see Jesus there as well. There's all of these things that are going on. They had no clue what Jesus had meant when he said, don't hold on to me, and let's face it, we have no more clue than the women did.}

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{Or the disciples did. The women and men who had been following Jesus were frightened. They were confused. They didn't know what was going on. They felt guilt. They felt fear. Death is the final word, except here it's not. Easter says different. It says. That death has not got the final word. This is consistent with the message of God from the very beginning.}

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{We have no doubt that we live in the world. We find those moments and we see the reality of it. }

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{ This isn't about being optimistic or sitting out and thinking that everything's gonna work out. It's not an empty hope. It is instead a wild hope that opens up the doors of possibility. I. That makes it where this different approach where women and men are both included, where the resurrection event is there in our face.}

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{It includes all of those who we love and all of those who are even our enemies. That there's this bizarre, topsy turny turned way of approaching life and love and looking at things in a very different way. And when things are terrible, when things are going crazy, when things are topsy-turvy, we can find confidence and find hope in the feeling of the event, the feeling of recognizing that Christ is }

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{ risen.}

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{Christ is risen indeed. Thanks for listening.}

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{Thanks so much for listening to the Inspired Stewardship Podcast. As a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you enjoyed this episode, do me a favor. Go over to facebook.com/inspired.}

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{Stewardship and like our Facebook page and market that you'd like to get notifications from us so that we can connect with you on Facebook and make sure that we're serving you to the best of our abilities with time and tips there. Until next time, invest your time. Your talent and your }

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{ treasures.}

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{Develop your influence and impact the world.}

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