Easter Sunday events
On the Sunday of Holy Week comes the culmination of it all: Easter Sunday, April 24th. We discover that Jesus’ resurrection validates the crucifixion as a life-changing, sin- forgiving event, and paves the way for a life that will never end in heaven for the believer. Join us for our Easter celebration with Sunrise Service [...]
Easter Egg Hunt
Join us in Pilgrim Lutheran’s Fellowship Hall on Saturday, April 23rd, from 10:00 AM until 12:00 Noon. Our Easter Egg Hunt features the following: Easter Egg Hunt Face painting Bible bingo Religious crafts Jelly bean guess Cakewalk Please join us for a fun family event that includes . . . Finding eggs (for children up [...]
2010 Easter Egg Hunt
Pilgrim’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt event is coming soon. It will be Saturday, April 3rd, the day before Easter, at Pilgrim Lutheran from 10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon, rain or shine. This has been an exciting event over the years for our Pilgrim families and the community. We will need your help to make it [...]
Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 11th, from 10:00 – 11:30 AM
April is just around the corner and that means Pilgrim’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt event is coming soon. It will be Saturday, April 11th, the day before Easter, at Pilgrim Lutheran from 10:00 – 11:30 AM, rain or shine. This has been an exciting event over the years for our Pilgrim families and the community. [...]
There’s Something Better Coming
This season of Easter is a special time for Christians to celebrate the ultimate reason for our hope: Christ is risen, and invites us to rise with him to new life. Easter is an invitation to try again with God’s help to break that addiction we had given up all hope of ever breaking. There’s [...]
Empty Tomb; Full Hearts
Full and empty—empty and empty—empty and full. That’s the story of Easter. We start with a full tomb and empty hearts. Jesus was dead and buried on Friday. His body lies in the tomb. Jesus’ followers, His disciples, had empty hearts. They were distraught. Their Lord and Master was dead. They didn’t know what to [...]
Do not be afraid!
Some 2008 Easter thoughts Fearful! That’s how Jesus’ followers Easter Sunday began. In a closed, locked upper room out of fear of the Jewish religious authorities. Are they after us now? Do they want to crucify us, too? By that evening everything had changed. They were no longer afraid. Why? One by one they had [...]
How crucial is the Resurrection?
How crucial is the Resurrection? We cherish the birth of Jesus, his wisdom, his loving deeds, his courage in the face of a brutal death, but it is Christ’s resurrection which is absolutely crucial to Christian beliefs. In his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul explained that the Resurrection was the foundation of our [...]
Burning Hearts
Of all the resurrection appearances of Jesus the one that fascinates me the most is when Jesus appeared to the two disciples on the way to Emmaus. The disciples’ act of “going home” has always made me wonder. Why did they leave town after hearing the report of the women that Jesus was alive again, [...]
Why a fish?
One of the most significant statements the early Christians used was “Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior.” Because Greek was the universal language then (the New Testament books were written in Greek), Christians often said and wrote, “Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior” in Greek. That phrase, if printed as an acrostic (using the first letter of [...]