Easter

On Easter we celebrate love, love coming down from heaven, love blanketing the earth in a transforming embrace; unique and infinite love, giving more than we can imagine for us, to cleanse our sin, a perfect sacrifice, Lamb of God, the walking, talking Word. He is teacher, role model, friend, this God in human form, dying, then rising from the …

With a hip and a hop, kids don’t want the Easter fun to ever stop! Finding the brightly colored Easter eggs carefully hidden and lain and eating all of the Easter goodies that Grandma has made! Did you happen to see the big bunny with the pink and white ears? That means that Easter is finally here! With a hip …

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.” ― Pope John Paul II “Jesus’s resurrection is the beginning of God’s new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord’s Prayer is about.” ― N.T. …

God sent His Son to take the punishment For all the thoughtless, sinful things we do; Jesus gave his life because He loves us; His love is boundless, sweet, forever true. On Easter morn He showed He is our Savior; His resurrection proves He is our Lord. That is why we tell you, “Happy Easter!” He secured our heavenly reward! …

Easter means that this life on earth is not all there is. Jesus went “to prepare a place for us” in His Father’s heavenly mansions for all eternity. Jesus died for our sins, paying our penalty, so that we could be forgiven. He was resurrected, to prove that death has no hold on those who repent and accept Him as …

“To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.” ― Pope Benedict XVI “Two thousand years …

Jesus came to earth, To show us how to live, How to put others first, How to love and how to give. Then He set about His work, That God sent Him to do; He took our punishment on Himself; He made us clean and new. He could have saved Himself, Calling angels from above, But He chose to pay …

O God of the Universe, you shed your glory, your majesty, your omnipotence to become human, as Jesus Christ– to get close to us, to connect with us, to be our role model and guide for living. O God of the Universe, you became the human Jesus Christ, to know us, to feel all we feel, to show us how …

God always wants the best for us, But in Eden we sinned; we really blew it. We disobeyed God’s direct decree; We separated from Him, and we knew it. You’d think we’d learn to behave ourselves, But through all time, we just kept doing it; Piling wrong on top of wrong, Our punishment—we kept accruing it. Jesus came and changed …

If not for Easter, the chaos of this world would be all there is and all there ever would be. If not for Easter, the unfairness of life would drive us to despair. But God sent His Son to give eternal life filled with peace, happiness and unimaginable blessings to those who choose Him. All we have to do is …