Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025
“Celebrate the Risen Lord!”
Happy Easter! It’s been a long 2025 Lenten Season, but we’ve finally completed all of our Challenges!
Of course, that’s an assumption! It would be silly to assume that everyone has completed 46 Lenten Challenges this year, but that’s the reason we do it in the first place. We try to discover a variety of ways to give thanks to God for blessing us with an opportunity to claim Jesus as our Savior and receive Eternal Life.
Maybe that’s a little cliché, but this year, maybe not. Much has changed in our lives since last Easter. The world looks different to everyone, and not just because of the extreme difficulties that so many of us have faced. We don’t have to pretend this last year was easy. It was not easy or simple, and many of us still see daily reminders of what we’ve experienced.
God’s plan in the world is much too big for us to understand fully. However, we do know that God’s plan includes blessings for all people. The biggest of these is the promise of Heaven for those who believe, and, as we’ve already inferred, God’s promise of Eternal Life may be the reason we were able to overcome so much.
Yes, we had lots of help. People came to our rescue when we needed it. Others are still showing up on our doorstep with offers to help, which stands as further evidence that God’s presence in the world today is real.
This Easter, take a few moments to give glory to God. Give the LORD a great big “Thank You” and ask God for a better 2025. It’s not selfish to ask. In fact, God wants us to ask because it displays great faith and humility, as we recognize that we can’t do it alone.
It’s Easter! The LORD has risen, and abundant life is ahead! Celebrate the Risen LORD and give God a big shout of thanks!
“Then I heard again what sounded like the shout of a vast crowd or the roar of mighty ocean waves or the crash of loud thunder: “Praise the Lord! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns. Let us be glad and rejoice, and let us give honor to him.” (Revelation 19:6-7a, NLT)
