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Emanuel Ev. Lutheran Church – Easter Festival Worship
March 31 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Join us for Easter worship!
ALL WILL BE MADE ALIVE!
The film director Woody Allen once said, “I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
Studies have shown that most people fear death to varying degrees. This fear is so common, that there is even a field of psychological study called thanatology. It examines the human reaction to death and dying. One of the biggest reasons people fear death is the perception of its permanency. In the normal realm of human existence, dead is dead. Someone dies, and all you have are pictures and memories. That is the way people typically think, but it is far from reality. Today, Christ proves to us that death is not final at all!
Easter teaches us that Christ is the first fruits of those who have died. Just as Christ rose, “so in Christ, all will be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:22). That changes everything: the way we grieve the death of a Christian loved one, the way we feel when our health fails, the way we look at the purpose of life right now. Let us rejoice in this resurrection reality: All will be made alive!
Easter breakfast is served in the school commons from 7:00 to 10:30 a.m.