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Unfortunately we had some technical difficulties in our Easter service and do not have a video for it. Below you will find Pastor Fran’s Sermon.

I tried this week as much as possible to imagine what it might have been for the women in our scripture and the disciples to find out that Jesus was raised from the dead. Really most of them were in disbelief that he was dead. How could he let them kill him? Why did we desert him, maybe we could have made a difference? Their hopes and dreams were dashed. They had given up everything for Jesus and now look at what has happened. Was it all for naught? Was it all really worth it? Three days they sat in mourning. Three days they sat in disbelief at all that had happened to them. I’m sure these three days felt almost like an eternity to them. It was a dark and dismal time for them.

The talk around town was probably one of an, “I Told You So!” He couldn’t have been the Christ. He was just like all the rest of them who told us they were the Messiah. Deep down the disciples knew differently, but they couldn’t explain his death. They couldn’t explain his departure on the cross. It just didn’t make sense. And there the disciples sat on Easter Morning, hidden away in a house, worrying about their own safety, and what they should do next.

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At the end of this service, everyone came forward to get their hands washed, to receive communion, and to stand before the cross and nail a paper to it with something meaningful on it. On April 19, the papers are returned.

At the end of this sermon, the following video clip was used.