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Showing posts with label Easter 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter 2012. Show all posts
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Easter Sermon 2012
Easter
2012
As
we arrive at Easter morning and run with Peter and John to the empty
tomb, we have to think about the events which have preceded this
moment. As Peter and John look into the empty tomb their minds are
filled with the memories of these recent events.
Peter
and John remember how just a week a ago Jesus came into the city
seated on a donkey, the way the prophet said the Messiah would come.
He enters the city during the week of the Jewish Passover. The day
that Jesus comes is the very day that people will pick out their
pascal lamb to be sacrificed later in the week. It is like the day
that the family goes out pick a Christmas tree in our culture. The
Jewish families are out anticipating the holiday and into town comes
Jesus. They hail him as King. The deep irony is that, as they pick
out the pascal lamb for their family festival, they are also choosing
the true Pascal Lamb, Jesus. All this happened last week on Palm
Sunday.
As
the Jewish family prepares for their holiday, they do spring
cleaning. Every bit of leaven in the house must be found and thrown
out. Why? Because during their holiday they eat only unleavened
bread to remind them of their ancestors' journey out of Egypt, out of
slavery. The leaven symbolized the oppression of slavery of in
Egypt. So they get rid of all the leaven, every crumb, every drop.
On the day of the feast they eat unleavened bread only. They will be
purified.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Sunrise Service Easter 2012
Pictures from Sunrise Service Easter 2012 Prayer Garden, Sam reads the Exodus story
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