Easter is quickly approaching. This is one of my favorite times of the year. While every Sunday is a celebration of our Risen Savior, Easter Sunday is normally set aside as a day to focus almost exclusively on the Resurrection. However, the Resurrection does not occur without Christ’s life and death.
So, in preparation for Easter we have some special services that will focus in on the significance of Christ’s life and death.
The first service will be Wednesday, April 8th a:00 at 7:00pm. We will being celebrating the Lord’s Supper on what we believe to be the anniversary of the Last Supper. I will be preaching from Mark 14 in this service.
The second service will be Good Friday, April 10th at 7:00pm. I will be preaching from Mark 15 on the death of Christ in this service.
Then on Easter Sunday, we will celebrate our Lord’s Resurrection from the dead. This will conclude our study of the Gospel of Mark as we look at the sixteenth and final chapter.
We will also be having some outreach opportunities leading up to Easter. We have New Testaments to give away, as well as booklets by John Piper titled, “History’s Most Spectacular Sin.” This booklet tells of the betrayal of Jesus and his murder by the hands of men. This truly was the history’s greatest sin, but when we stop to think of God’s purposes even in that horrible sin we find that God had a spectacular plan for the redemption of man.
The early Church used to begin there gatherings with these words, still used in many Churches today. The Pastor would say, “The Lord has risen!” Then the gathered Christians would respond, “He is risen indeed!” May we also with this same spirit of joy announce to our community through this Easter season that Christ our Lord bore our sins, died, was buried, but on the third day rose from the dead. He is risen indeed!
