March 28, 2024



It’s Holy Week and Easter

If you count Palm Sunday, we have seven worship services to get ready for Christ’s resurrection. And for you to be truly ready for Easter Sunday, I think you need to be to at least two of them.

You could do Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday, or Tuesday and Wednesday Holy Communion Services, or Good Friday and Easter Vigil, or . . . or . . .  or . . . your choice. But I need you to give me at least two shots and getting you ready for the full purpose and power of Christ risen from the dead.  And we are here every night this week at 7:00 pm.

Now, if you just come on Easter Sunday, I’ll still be nice to you, and smile at you, and I’ll still shout “Alleluia! Christ is risen!” in your general direction. But without the events of Holy Week, I think you’re going to miss a lot of what Christ has to offer you on Easter Sunday. Without the washing of feet on Maundy Thursday or the adoration of the Cross on Good Friday or the ancient stories of faith at the Easter Vigil, you’re missing a lot of what the risen Christ means for your life.

Now don’t get me wrong. I like a big party. And I love all the banners and brass and flowers and just general excitement on Easter morning.

But Christ is risen for the disciples who betrayed him and slept when he asked them to stay awake and deserted him when he needed them most. The shouts of Christ resurrection are for the ears of all those who walked with him in those last days of his life and heard him cry out to God for help and wondered why all his friends abandoned him.

I mean that Christ’s resurrection meets us in our deepest need, our most frightening moments, and in the face of all our sin.

So I want to see you on Easter, but can you give me at least one or two more worship services this week? It will make your Easter fuller and more blessed than you ever imagined. I promise!

See you soon!

Rev. John D. Morris, Senior Pastor