Easter 2008

"Therefore you must look into the tomb and realize that my sins and my death tear him apart and oppress him. There the devil regards himself as secure, and the chief priests boast and rejoice: He is gone and will not return. But in the instant they believe him dead, the Lion tears himself away from sin, death, hell and the jaws of the devil and rips them to shreds with his teeth. This is our comfort, that Christ comes forth: Death, sin and the devil cannot hold him. The sin of the entire world is powerless."

~Martin Luther-Easter Sunday Morning sermon March 28, 1529

Alleluia! He is risen! He is risen indeed!
~Ancient Christian greeting

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."

~Phillips Brooks

Once more to new creation
Awake,and death gainsay,
For death is swallowed up of life,
And Christ is risen today!

~George Newell Lovejoy

This is the promise that He hath promised us, even eternal life.

~1 John, 2. 25