preparing for & celebrating easter

Preparing for & Celebrating Easter

Preparing for & Celebrating Easter

1. Read the Passion narratives.

Preparing for & Celebrating Easter

1. Read the Passion narratives.2. Fast on Good Friday.

Preparing for & Celebrating Easter

1. Read the Passion narratives.2. Fast on Good Friday.3. Invite friends, neighbors,

family to come to the “Lift Up Your Heads” production on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

Preparing for & Celebrating Easter

1. Read the Passion narratives.2. Fast on Good Friday.3. Invite friends, neighbors,

family to come to the “Lift Up Your Heads” production on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

4. Plan a feast for Resurrection Sunday.

HE IS RISEN!

Colossians 1:12-20“Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, …”

Colossians 1:12-20“ the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were …”

Colossians 1:12-20“…created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased…”

Colossians 1:12-20“… to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood shed on the cross.”

It’s all about Jesus.

It’s all about Jesus.

H.G. WELLS

It’s all about Jesus.

It’s all about Jesus.

C.H. SPURGEON

C.H. SPURGEON

“Christ is the great central fact

in the world’s history. To him

every thing looks forward or

backward. All the lines of history converge upon

him. All the great purposes of God culminate in him.

Philippians 2:10-11“…at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

It’s all about Jesus.

It’s all about Jesus.

NAPOLEON

“I know men and I tell you this Jesus Christ is no mere man.

Between him and every other person in the

world there is no possible term of

comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest

the creations of genius? Upon force. ...”NAPOLEON

“… Jesus Christ founded His empire

upon love; and at this hour millions

of men would die for him.”NAPOLEON

It’s all about Jesus.

Colossians 1:15-17“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before…”

Colossians 1:15-17“all things, and in him all things hold together.”

Colossians 1:20“…by making peace through the blood of His cross.”

Jesus knew the Father would have to treat Jesus like Barabbas so He could treat

Barabbas like Jesus.

Romans 5:8“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Your greatest challenge is to believe it’s all about Jesus.

It’s all about Jesus.

Acts 8:35“Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.”

Isaiah is about Jesus.

Luke 24:27“And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.”

It’s all about Him! All the Scriptures are

about Him. All creation is about

Him.

Hebrews 1:1-3“In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance…”

Hebrews 1:1-3“…of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.”

Coulomb’s Law

“Some inflexible inhibition is relentlessly holding it all together. Some call it nuclear glue. Others

refer to it as the colossus.”DR. KARL DARROW

Colossians 1:17“…in him all things hold together.”

It’s all about Jesus.

It’s all about Jesus — from beginning

to end.