Greetings and all good wishes from Pilgrim Presbyterian Church, located in the heart of Vinita, Oklahoma.
Holy Week, which began yesterday, is the most significant week of the Christian calendar. It is a drama that portrays life in three acts:
- Act 1 - Palm Sunday, a carnival mood of exuberance and joy.
- Act 2 - Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, a mood of grief, sorrow, tears.
- Act 3 - Easter, a mood of victory
Life is a whole. It swings from laughter to tears, from carnival to Calvary. There are things that can't be greeted with joy or dismissed with a chuckle. There are things when life stands still, when the landscape is dark and barren.
But Act 3 is different! If you choose to accept Christ as Lord and Savior, your life will be encompassed by Easter love. You will know that your life is lived in God's presence, and that you are literally never alone.
The Easter faith is the faith in which Christians live here and now, and in the eternal life after we did.
"I'm sure that neither death, nor life...will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38-39)
Thanks be to God.
Richard
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Next Sunday, Easter Sunday, Ray Hickman will fill the pulpit. Suzie will sing and the Children's Bell Choir will perform. Please come join us to worship God.
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