Risen!

Today is it. Today is the day everything changed. Today one man did the unthinkable. Today a man rose Himself from the dead. Today all of His claims were validated.

He said He was God. He said He could forgive sins. He said we could now be reunited with our Maker. He was killed because He said these things. He proved these things were true when He rose from the tomb.

From this, a small band of followers could not contain themselves. They travelled around the known world not preaching a set of rules, not telling of a man's teachings, but proclaiming a man rose from the dead! Through persecution, death, torture, and pain, they would not be denied.

Today we stand nearly 2,000 years later proclaiming the same thing: that this same man, Jesus Christ, Redeemer of man, rose from the grave! Like those men in the past, we share in the hope that our sins our forgiven. We stand washed clean so that we can have fellowship with our Heavenly Father forever!

This Easter we praise God for this gift! Let us all leave this Easter with the same drive and passion as those men from 2,000 years ago.

"He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you, while He was still with you in Galilee: 'The Son of Man muse be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again'"
Luke 24:6-7