1) RESURRECTION OF JESUS

FROM THE DEAD

When have you experienced “Resurrection Moments” – a moment you just knew someone who died is with the Lord?

Obviously death – the end of the line – is part of life – whether we like to look at it or not.

Obviously death – for the Christian – is not the end of the line.

Yet, death – especially after a long life or a long struggle with cancer – or Alzheimer’s – looks like that’s “The End” of our movie.

But because of Christ we Christians believe there is a sequel – another life - a new life – a never ending eternity in God.

Hopefully, when we look death in the eye, we’ll see Jesus the Light of the World waiting for us on the other side of the dark tunnel of death.

Every year we celebrate Easter as a way of saying to ourselves, “We believe in life after death – because of Jesus.”

Each Sunday we say the same thing by celebrating the Eucharist with each other.

“Dying you destroyed our death,
rising you restored our life.
Lord Jesus, come in glory.”

Each sunset teaches us endings; every sunrise teaches us beginnings.

We know birth; we know death; has resurrection dawned on us yet?

At some point in life, usually when we are older, Easter appears as a sunrise before us. Do we stop to watch it?

Easter is a feast of hope.

Easter is a feast of light.

Easter is a feast of new life.

Easter is a feast of the bursting up out of the earth of new flowers, new life, new possibilities.

We believe.

Jesus rose from the dead – giving us hope in the same possibility for us too.

Amen. Come Lord Jesus.

Roll away any heavy stones of doubt.