Tomorrow morning, Easter Sunday, I will be up very early cooking a big pot of tomato/cheese/bacon grits to take to the church. I need to have it there by no later than 6:30 am, because sunrise service is at 6:45 and we will serve breakfast, to all those who attend, immediately after the sunrise service. Our regular worship service will be earlier than usual, at 10 am.
Sooooo, I'm wishing all of my long distance friends here an early, very Happy Resurrection Day, because I won't be here early tomorrow morning as usual. I hope that your day will be blessed with a recognition of the real meaning of the celebration.
He is risen!! May the Fourth (man in the fire) be with you!
Church at 11:00AM for us, when I get home I’ll be smoking a boneless pork shoulder on the Weber, about 8 pounds. A friend is bringing dessert, strawberry shortcake, Maria will handle making my mother’s potato salad, steamed veggies and dinner rolls. Visited my brother at the nursing home today, he will be taking delivery of a motorized wheelchair on Friday, and seems a bit exited about that. Sent a married couple, very dear friends, that were visiting their daughter and granddaughter, home to Colombia. A few tears were shed, with promises of not waiting so long between reunions.
It is Resurrection Day. Jesus left the tomb proving His victory over sin and death, and now stands outside our tomb of sin and shame, inviting us to take His hand...leaving our pain and our past to walk with Him in glorious light...in His love...in freedom and joy and peace...telling others what He did for me. https://sites.google.com/site/anotherdaysjourneybackhome/evangelism/how-to-share-the-gospel
1 Peter 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
We had a blessed time at our sunrise service-- got to lead worship with my brothers and sister in law-- then home to a full Easter breakfast.
Our pastor preached from Isaiah-- the promise that God would one day swallow Death. Fulfilled when Sin and Death were first 'swallowed' on the cross as Jesus took our sin and death into Himself, and then 'swallowed up' when Jesus overcome death and hell at the Resurrection.
The great devourer has been devoured. Death has been defeated. And so we celebrate with a great feast of thanksgiving, starting at the communion table.
I am back in the “old country” of my youth (as Lloyd calls it) and just spent the last two and half weeks with my Dad’s 99 year old sister as she passed from death into LIFE! The last of the “old ones” of our family is now gone. And it’s OK (actually far better than just OK). Because of today, we do not grieve as if we have no hope.
A blessed Resurrection Day to you all.
(Plus how wonderful to wake up to the news that the second F-15 officer was found alive and has been rescued.)
This is a special day for many folks. When I was a kid, Easter was the second most important Holiday of the year. Women often wore new hats [Easter bonnets] to church. Men would never wear hats in church, or anywhere else indoors for that matter. My grandmother, who had little money, would take my family and my uncle's family to dinner [no wine], a noon meal as supper was the evening meal, at the Hotel Johnson. A once a year treat as it was so expensive. We would take Kodak pictures, black and white, as it was a big event in a small place. Hope you find something good and enjoyable today. Daryl
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Tomorrow morning, Easter Sunday, I will be up very early cooking a big pot of tomato/cheese/bacon grits to take to the church. I need to have it there by no later than 6:30 am, because sunrise service is at 6:45 and we will serve breakfast, to all those who attend, immediately after the sunrise service. Our regular worship service will be earlier than usual, at 10 am.
Sooooo, I'm wishing all of my long distance friends here an early, very Happy Resurrection Day, because I won't be here early tomorrow morning as usual. I hope that your day will be blessed with a recognition of the real meaning of the celebration.
He is risen!! May the Fourth (man in the fire) be with you!
Stan, I taught you were a Deacon, now you are a Cook ? Some years back I was a Usher in our Church. But one year the 5:30 P.M. Mass was done away with, and so my Ushering days were over. Happy Easter to all.
Stan, I taught you were a Deacon, now you are a Cook ? Some years back I was a Usher in our Church. But one year the 5:30 P.M. Mass was done away with, and so my Ushering days were over. Happy Easter to all.
Dirty Harry
deacon: from the Greek word diákonos meaning "servant" or "minister."
Our deacons have traditionally cooked and served a bountiful breakfast to worshippers attending the sunrise service on Easter morning. We also serve , and minister to worshippers when we distribute The Lord's Supper, which we do at our later morning worship service, on the first Sunday of each month. And, as other needs in the congregation arise we try to meet them as well.
Acknowledging the day (and Passover), as done by the Founders and previous Presidents, is not an endorsement, of which Christianity has no need. God is infinitely larger than nations and governments. The issue of 'separation' is discussed at length here https://sites.google.com/site/anotherdaysjourneybackhome/pray-for-america
Roger Sherman, Congregationalist of Connecticut, was the only Founding Father to sign The Association of 1774, the Declaration of Independence (he was one of the 5 Drafting Committee members), the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/08/roger-sherman-constitutional-calvinist.html Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and no longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.
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