Who can forget Geoff Huegill’s comeback? By his website’s own admission it was:

“[a] phenomenal comeback, a body changing, life-altering feat to shed a third of his body weight and rediscover the athlete within and win Commonwealth Games gold”.

Now, Ian Thorpe has decided he wants a piece of the action too, as he returns to compete at the London 2012 Olympics.

As much as Australians love Geoff Huegill and the Thorpedo, and as impressive as their comebacks are, neither of them returned from the dead. In fact, the only man to make a comeback from death is Jesus – this was the comeback to trump all comebacks.

“God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.” – Acts 2:24

This year at Church by the Bridge we’re running with a ‘Great comebacks’ theme for our Easter outreach, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on how we could explore this theme in our communications, and more generally, what your church is doing this Easter.