Introducing ... Eastertide: the Season

Easter isn’t a day.  Easter isn’t even a season.  Easter is a way of life for the people of God.  Through Pentecost Sunday on May 19, we will be hearing a series of sermons entitled: Resurrection People.  What does it mean to live after Easter but before Christ’s Second Coming.  How does Christ’s work of death, resurrection, ascension and the coming of the Holy Spirit equip us to be the People of God in the world today?

“What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.” 
- N.T. Wright "Surprised By Hope"

Baptism Wrap-Up

Thanks to you all for a meaningful Lent and joyful Easter morning. As we move forward into the 6 weeks of Easter Season before Pentecost on May 19, I thought I would share a couple of resources with you.  These books were significant in my preparation of thoughts and sermons on Baptism so if that it a topic you are curious about, I encourage you to read more.

The Promise of Baptism by James Brownson

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Leonard VanderZee's Christ, Baptism and the Lord's Supper.


Finally, because it is Easter Monday after all, a little something contemporary to carry the Joy of Easter Sunday into the rest of the week.  Remember, you are Resurrection people!