Good day dear friends.
Again, our thanks for your prayers for our son-in-law, Eric Cortez, as he
recovers from
his appendectomy. He should be home this evening if all goes well. I know he
must be
doing good because he ate some barbecued chicken and ribs that I made for
Easter. That
was his biggest regret about being sick, he said, not being present for the
family BBQ!
Rev. Barbara Aziz is out of the hospital and I'm sure resting today after all of
her activities
at her church in Bishop, Texas. She was hospitalized with a bout of food
poisoning this
past week, but was out on Friday.
Yesterday we had a great time in church turning folks away from our eleven
o'clock
worship and sending them to our contemporary worship service. The sermon was
called
"When Life Paid Death a Visit," and I took folks on a tour of Eden and reminded
them that
through the first Adam, death paid life a visit, and it wasn't until the second
Adam, Jesus,
that life could pay death a visit. Ours is the victory as we trust God's desire
to be in
relationship with us and to walk with us all our lives.
We talked about our reluctance to talk about our own death and how Easter is
about our
trusting God that even in our death, God is with us and we have nothing to fear.
At our Good Friday service we had someone (maybe more than one) who said that
after all
these years the idea of forgiveness did not sink in until a service such as the
one we held.
It was very Wesleyan to hear someone say, I finally realized that Christ had
died for even
my sins!
Amen. And on Sunday, He rose again to give us complete victory over sin and
death!
PRAYER: Father, for lives touched and transformed, we give you thanks. May the
Resurrection Event be ours now and forever. Let my life touch others this day
and all days.
I pray in Christ Jesus' Name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord!
e.v.
