“The Lord is risen!” We shouted this as a greeting to friends at church this morning. “The Lord is risen indeed, Hallelujah!” It was a great sermon, bringing the resurrection from two thousand years ago into the modern context. It hit the core issues of the Gospel, that all Christ has been victorious over death, and all that drags us down. If the Resurrected Christ could conquer death, He can certainly conquer our small issues, worries about health or finances, and so on.

There was also a good discussion about God’s love as a source of renewable energy. God constantly showers us with His love. We can chose to rely on old examples of God’s love, sort of like how we’ve relied on oil, or we can rely on the love of God gives to us each day and that we have an opportunity to reflect to the people around us.

I pray that each of you experience God’s love, however you understand it, and pass that on to those around you.

For us, much of God’s love is reflected in simple family activities, like coloring eggs, or an Easter Egg hunt. We colored eggs on Saturday and broadcast it on Ustream. During the egg coloring, various friends connected and chatted with us.

I also have some good pictures of the events of the day in my Easter 2009 photo set.