Friday, April 6, 2012

Looking Toward Sunday


April 8, 2012 - Easter Sunday

"Seismic Shift"

This Sunday we'll take a look at the Easter story as told in the Gospel of Matthew (you can read it here).  

The Resurrection represented a kind of cosmic shift in the order of things - dramatized in Matthew's gospel by the "great earthquake" that opened the tomb.  On that Resurrection morning the balance of power shifted from what appeared to have supremacy (hatred, cruelty, death) to what was thought to be powerless (love, compassion, and life).  In the words of commentator Tom Long, the Resurrection was “a shattering earthquake that rippled a seismic shock through history and signaled that the fault lines of human history had shifted dramatically toward grace and hope.”

Join us on Sunday as we celebrate the aftershock!



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