Upcoming Events at First Lutheran Church of The Trinity
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Our traditional Easter Sunday starts with 10:30 am Worship, followed by an Easter Egg Hunt for youth and a Potluck Brunch for all! This year may be the one in which John's resurrection account is likely to be chosen over Mark's, perhaps because Mark's
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Our traditional Easter Sunday starts with 10:30 am Worship, followed by an Easter Egg Hunt for youth and a Potluck Brunch for all!
This year may be the one in which John’s resurrection account is likely to be chosen over Mark’s, perhaps because Mark’s gospel ends so abruptly, with astonishment and fear rather than joyful proclamation. Yet Mark may speak to our experience more directly than the other gospels. Corinthians and Acts fill out the story by telling of appearances of the risen Christ. Peter says we “ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.” And so do we, in a foretaste of the mountaintop feast where death will be no more.
This year may be the one in which John’s resurrection account is likely to be chosen over Mark’s, perhaps because Mark’s gospel ends so abruptly, with astonishment and fear rather than joyful proclamation. Yet Mark may speak to our experience more directly than the other gospels. Corinthians and Acts fill out the story by telling of appearances of the risen Christ. Peter says we “ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.” And so do we, in a foretaste of the mountaintop feast where death will be no more.
