Christ the Lord Is Risen Today

Easter is the story of Jesus Christ of Nazareth’s last week on earth. This Passion Week, as it is called, recounts Jesus coming into Jerusalem on Monday with the praise of the people and dying on Friday with the insults of the people. Early on Sunday morning, however, Jesus came out of the tomb where His body had been placed, and He revealed Himself over the next 40 days to literally hundreds of people. Not everyone who saw Him believed, but those who were chosen to believe did. And they went out into the world and spread the good news of salvation. That message has spread for almost 2000 years now, and for Christians it is the most important news ever reported. Those who believe the story from the eyewitness accounts and who submit to Jesus Christ as Lord have eternal life promised to them by God. The God who became flesh, who lived our lives and died our deaths, has guaranteed us eternal life through faith in this Christ.