Watch an animated video “My Last Day” about Jesus’ last day on Earth Told from the New Living Translation of the Holy Bible “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.  God did not send His Son [...]

You’ve probably seen Santa Claus; but have you ever seen the Easter Bunny? As a small child, I enjoyed visiting Santa at a local department store at Christmastime. My parents would take me downtown to the jolly bearded man in the red suit. I felt comfortable climbing into his lap, telling him my wish list [...]

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Easter is For Second Chances

Easter is the story of second chances.  Through the events that are celebrated this week Jesus paid the price for a world gone wild.  He became a healer for those who suffer, a redeemer for all who have failed, a rescuer for all who are lost and alone, a life giver for all who are [...]

Doubting Easter

What are your Easter holiday traditions? Are they baskets full chocolate-covered eggs and bunny rabbits? Maybe they are images of an empty ancient tomb or a cross. For Christians, Easter is about the celebration of one man dying and rising again. Easter is about Jesus’ victory over death. If you’re thinking that the Easter story [...]

Why I Say Happy Easter

Happy Easter… we all say it, but why? Do we say it out of common courtesy because everyone else is saying it? After all, “Happy Easter” is in our repertoire of greetings, right next to “bless you” after someone sneezes or the non-chalant “how are you?” to our neighbourhood barista. Sometimes we just need to read between [...]

We weren’t Easter Egg Hunt-ers at my house. In our family we got Easter candy, and went to Easter services (often in a new Easter dress) but the hunt eluded me until I became a grown-up.

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The Good News of Easter

Jesus came to be a healer for those who suffer, a redeemer for all who have failed, a rescuer for all who are lost and alone, a life giver for all who are dying.  As we go into the Easter season think about the people in your life who are suffering without a Savior. What [...]

When you think of Easter do you think of bunnies and eggs? Chicks and baskets? Possibly a cross or a church or spring dresses?  I think of hundred year old houses.  It’s a little random, I know, but at the heart of it, Easter is all about restoration. You don’t have to look far to [...]

It’s predictable: Every year around Easter time, we read about Easter controversy. Status quo does not sell magazines, books, and newspapers: What sells is anything new and shocking. So the media finds some way to attempt to challenge traditional beliefs about Jesus and Christianity. This year, it was the breathless announcement that ancient documents discovered [...]

With no resurrection, there’s no Easter Easter is the time of year to get together with loved ones and celebrate family traditions which often include: Easter dinner, jelly beans, Easter egg hunts and, of course, a trip to church. The big question is why bother going to church? If Jesus was simply a good man [...]