Easter

The Lord is risen! Alleluia!

Today is a day of rejoicing! Today we celebrate our Lord's rising from the dead. The power of sin has been vanquished. Death is destroyed from the inside out. Today is the day that both fulfills the promise and confirms all the promises of God.

For nearly 2000 years, the Church has celebrated the resurrection of Christ who, although slain, did not remain so. Not only that, but when he died he took sin to the grave and, by his resurrection, defeated it.

Sinners crave to know the reality of the resurrection in their own lives; in their hearts they instinctively know there is something there they desperately need and want. The Church must show them. Christians must become the reality sinners crave by living the resurrection every day, in every situation, in every moment.

O God, you are my God, for you I long;
for you my soul is thirsting
My body pines for you
like a dry, weary land without water.
So I gaze on you in the sanctuary
to see your strength and your glory.

For your love is better than life...

May Christians, sinners who have received the gifts of death and life from the crucified and risen Christ, share the life Christ has now given them with those who have not yet received it. May their single purpose be to glorify the Lord in their own lives as he has been glorified in the resurrection.

The Lord is risen, indeed! Alleluia!!