Good Friday & Easter Sunday
Welcome to our Good Friday and Easter Sunday newsletter.
Easter Sunday is only the beginning: Jesus’ resurrection is the “first fruits” of the harvest, an encouraging glimpse of what’s ahead. But “what’s ahead,” by definition, isn’t yet here.
We call it “dawn” because its rays of light break through the shadows — but for the time being, the shadows remain. Accordingly, Easter comes not as the solution to creation’s problems but rather as a profound assurance that a new, irrevocable era has begun — and in the end, love and justice, shalom and joy, will have the final word.
Service
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Good Friday
God's Friday is the climax of a story for which Lent has been preparing us. For the disciples, it was not the ending they had expected.
Pulpit Supply: Rev. LeeAnn McKenna
9:50AM — Please enter quietly
10:00AM — Service begins
Easter Sunday
This Christian holy day is named after the ancient Celtic goddess of the spring, Eostre. On this highest of holy days in the Christian calendar, we celebrate the surprise ending: the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ—when everything changed.
Pulpit Supply: Rev. LeeAnn McKenna
9:50AM — Please enter quietly
10:00AM — Service begins
Contemporary
A Podcast for Understanding Easter - Part 7
In the concluding episode of the seven-part series, “Understanding Easter,” there is an opportunity to rethink the holiday from the ground up, with help from Mary Magdalene and one of the most harrowing, fascinating stories in scripture: the story of Rizpah.
“Sounds the trumpets as a reveille. A sound to wake us up, to rouse us from our slumber, keep us awake and alert so we can never become numb to the cycles of violence and vengeance around us and within us.”
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