Happy Day-After-Ressurection-Day Day!

Hope all of you celebrated the resurrection of our Lord yesterday. Our worship team did the music at a Sonrise Service in Frontenac (we went all acoustic- was really cool) and then did our normal celebration at our 10:00 service at CCSC. I went through the end of the book of Matthew and walked our congregation through the events from the Last Supper (we had communion) to the resurrection.

Jesus suffered in so many ways on our behalf, and yet His own apostles abandoned Him when they felt their own lives were in danger. And yet, Jesus went to see them after He rose from the dead, He forgave them, and He then gave them the great commission! How amazing is that, that the Lord sent out the very apostles that had abandoned Him as His first ambassadors to the world. But Jesus knew something that many of us forget. Those that have been forgiven much, love much.

Have you ever wished you had a stronger love for Jesus? A greater passion for Christ? Let me make a suggestion. Ask God to give you a greater sense or awareness of your sinfulness before Him. It is hard to not be passionate for Jesus when you realize just how undeserving you are, and how much He has forgiven you.

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
(Eph 2:1-7)

How awesome He is, and what love He has.

Yours in Him,

Pastor B.