04/05/2026
EASTER SUNDAY 2026 - We wish everyone a blessed day, and a happy time with your families. We have been a bit out of touch recently due to our caregiving responsiblities, but we are here and thankful for all of you who have trusted us through the years.
So today, we want to give you a GIFT. This gift is better than gold, and is, in fact, priceless. But remember, a gift is never yours until you receive it. The gift is eternal life in heaven, and this gift comes from our creator, our Father God Himself (our part in the gift is just sharing it with you). The gift was given to us all. Because God loved us all, but could not accept our sin and unrighteousness, He designed a plan to save us. He sent JESUS, His only Son, who became flesh one Christmas day as a baby in a manger. He was all man and all God at the same time, and therefore lived a perfect sinless life. However, He came for one purpose and that was to suffer and die as the perfect sacrifice taking all of our evil sins upon Himself. He was tortured, beaten, and nailed to a cross on Good Friday by the very ones He came to save, humanity. He suffered and died for us all.
To make it easy to understand, think of it this way: Let's imagine that you had committed a terrible crime and received the death penalty as judgement. On the day you were to be executed, the guards came for you. But the funny thing is that they opened the jail cell and said you are free to go. You couldn't understand and questioned them. One guard quietly said to you that your father came to them and took your place. He was executed today to pay the price for your crime and you are free to go! Imagine how you would feel since your father was perfectly innocent. What kind of love he had to lay down his life for you and set you free!
That is kind of like what Jesus did for you, but with a huge difference. Jesus is God and He had no sin and was therefore the only one who could pay the price for your sin, and mine. Greater love had no man than this...that He gave His life!
But if the story had ended there, we would all be in trouble. It would have been the same as any other nice religion whose founder is dead...
BUT THIS WAS ONLY BEGINNING...
His body was laid in a borrowed tomb that Friday and it seemed that hope was lost.
THEN CAME SUNDAY!!!
Jesus rose from the dead on the third day, and his disciples found an empty tomb with the giant stone rolled away! He later appeared to them alive, and to many others over the next 40 days.
IN OTHER WORDS, HE BEAT DEATH, HELL AND THE GRAVE. HE IS RISEN - THE MESSAGE OF EASTER SUNDAY (no, it is not about some bunny, eggs, and candy) - It is about the risen Son of God who came to pay the price for our sins. He gave us the greatest gift of all - forgiveness of our sins and eternal life in heaven.
NOW REMEMBER, a gift is never yours until you receive it. You can know about it, you can believe it exists, you can even think it is wonderful, but unless you receive it, it is not yours and you will therefore pay the price for your sin. The Bible states it this way in John 3:16-19 :
For God so loved the world (you and me and all of us), that He gave His only Son Jesus, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent His Son into the world not to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believes on Him is not condemned, but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light (Jesus) is come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light because their deeds were evil.
BELIEVING means understanding that you have sinned (face it, we have all told a lie and more), and therefore broken God's law earning spiritual death (eternal separation from God) because God is perfectly holy and sin cannot be in His presence. Understanding that Jesus Christ paid the price for your sin and made you clean, a new person - a child of God, if and only if you believe and receive this great gift of salvation by admitting you are a sinner and asking Jesus to come into your heart and forgive you of your sins. You must then confess with your mouth that Jesus is lord and God raised Him from the dead. THIS IS WHERE YOUR JOURNEY BEGINS! God is faithful and just to forgive your sins and make you a new creation. He comes to live in your heart, and will never leave nor forsake you. While the road may not always be smooth, your destination will be heaven with love, peace, and joy for eternity!
JESUS SAID: I am THE WAY, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.
Always remember, no matter what the world and the news tell you, there is only ONE TRUTH and only ONE WAY to heaven.
It is our sincere hope that if you have not found THE WAY who is Jesus, that you will take that step this Easter and make it the greatest day of your entire life! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ASK...
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, AND GOD BLESS YOU!!!
