Sunday, March 27, 2016

WORSHIP ON EASTER SUNDAY …
The celebration of Holy Week draws near.  I am especially excited that we will have baptisms at both our services (!) on Easter Sunday, along with all the wonderful music and celebrations you have planned. 

He came to his own … John’s Gospel relates a story of Easter morning, the First Day, when a grieving Mary Magdalene discovers an empty tomb.  In her, anxiousness and fear she fails to recognize the One, standing in her midst.  Then he calls her by name and she experiences the overwhelming joy of recognizing the risen Christ.  John’s Gospel also tells us of the advent of this One … “He came to his own, but his own did not know him.”  The clarion call of Easter is for people of faith to recognize Christ in the midst of the world today, in all the ways he comes to us in the Resurrection.  He is calling us by name.  God is with us!  Christ is alive!
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