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Prayer & Worship
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Happy Easter
Our response to our Lord‘s life, death, eternal. Remembering that truth can make the
burial and resurrection? To respond in temporary all the better. Our days can be filled
wholehearted, unreserved friendship to His with connection to our Heavenly Father. Wow
openly displayed sacrificial friendship toward and hallelujah! It’s a choice away, this life of
us. To lay our life down (now and then) as HE faith in Jesus our Savior.
willingly did....once and for all. I often contemplate the prophesy-com-
His motive? Pure love! To help all who ing-true world that Jesus lived in a couple
would humbly receive Him. To be part of thousand years ago. The social climate very
housing the needed comfort. To give restor- often wasn’t pretty then, either. And yet, He
ative sustenance so profoundly important. lived focused. He set His face “like a flint”
Absolutely crucial for the weary soul. to lay His life down for us. To love us and to
Living on the lookout for opportunities to instruct us to love in the middle of a corrupt
serve. And, with the help of God, choosing to world.
give. Of ourselves. To chop to love in word He taught us to pray. To pray His praise.
and in deed. Even an on-purpose smile has the His will. His provision. Forgiveness. His
ability to help. Truly. glory. And here we are, in the day we have
Just to be His family around the table. No been given to live in, today. What a day to
hurry to leave His house. Gracious living, consider how Jesus had more than enough joy
that. Fulfilling. Only fully realized through the and peace to share them with us! To actually
grace of Jesus our Lord. Our Savior. He chose bestow them on us. Imagine that! Not as the
to lay His own life down to supply our eternal
world gives...He gives. We receive. We ask
need.
sincerely and we humbly choose to walk in
And we do have need. And, no doubt about
His ways.
it, He does have provision. Resurrection, even.
There’s joy in the outcome! What a privilege of a choice to make!
In Him is the enough we all wish for! Amazing grace, He helps us in that choice....
Through all this life holds, let’s keep looking walking every step with us, lifting us up when
up! After all, our only true and lasting help is we sink in the storm.
from the One who really does have the whole Yes, this time of dealing with our
powerlessness over illness & death has been
YOU ARE INVITED!
world in His hands. 
Yes, Biblical prophecy continues to come a wake-up call for the whole world, for sure.
true before our eyes. Signs of the times are Let’s allow it to be personal. May it wake us Sunday April 4th to celebrate
all around us. Ample reasons to honestly seek up to the beauty He has for us. The beauty
God and His ways. To purposefully live His of the bird-song in the Spring air, the soft EASTER with us!
commission. To have hope so alive and vital sunshine, the new flowers blooming, the Angola Assembly of God
that joy, purity and peace reign. To have hope lasting love shared with people who care, and (The Dome Church)
so tangible that people are prompted to ask the beauty of salvation that lasts longer than a 1405 Williams St.
the reason. To have faith well grounded yet lifetime. Angola, IN 46703
anchored upward, into Heaven itself! Let’s not get caught up in the negative
The Bible has been proven true, over and drama. Jesus won on the cross. He won when EASTER SUNDAY:
over again, for thousands of years through He rose from the grave. He won when he 9a Sunday school
prophecy. Prophecy fulfilled should not be poured out His Spirit on the day of Pentecost
scary, should not be fearful, but it should be and empowered people to follow Him until 10a Easter* Celebration
faith-building and re-focusing for our lives His return.  We are children of the Every Sunday after Easter:
here and now while we look toward the day. May we be so aware of the day we live in join us for Sunday School,
eternal. Transformed by well-placed hope. that we, on purpose, anchor our hope in that
I’ve seen many things written and voiced 10a worship AND 6 pm for
which is lasting and true. Let’s choose life!
that are definitely not full of hope and peace There’s something about hope that prompts evening worship & Epicenter
and joy and faith. I find that deeply concerning us to holy living. This world needs holy. We Youth gym night & Bible Study.
because anxiety will rob us of strength. And need holy. We need set apart in the presence WEDNESDAYS MINISTRY
we NEED strength. The joy of the Lord IS our of the Lord where we can regain strength. 
strength. Joy and anxiety have a difficult time FOR ALL AGES AT 7P:
Fear can rob us of hope. Don’t let it happen. It
sharing space. Adults in Main Dome.
really does matter how we look at things.
If we truly fear God (believe He is the all May the Lord be our counselor, His word Students in Family Life Center
powerful one and choose to completely trust be our guide and His Spirit be our comforter (North Building)
Him) we have nothing on this earth to fear. during this time, in Jesus name. K-6TH:
Yes, living for God, trouble will still come,  Let’s keep thinking in a Philippians 4:8 KIDS CORNER CONNECTION
but our Lord Jesus has overcome already for kind of way. Living in the light of Heaven! 7TH-12TH:
us. We are THAT loved. And He is THAT
You can see I’ve been thinking, EPICENTER YOUTH
powerful.
Our focus is crucial. What we tend to Serena Hoffman
see is temporary. The Bible is upfront and Wife of Pastor Sam Hoffman Need more info? call 260-665-9998 or email at
clear on that. What we can’t physically see is Happy Easter from The Olde York Church All regular adult services associatepastor@aaogchurch.com
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He is “…for us”
In my mind one of the most powerful
chapters in all of Scripture is Romans 8.
having my devotions. Here are the verses…
“What shall we say about such
Risen!
Here are a few of my favorite verses from wonderful things as these?
this chapter… If God is for us, who can ever be
“So now there is no condemnation for against us?” v.31
those who belong to Christ Jesus. And “Since he did not spare even his own
because you belong to him, the power of Son but gave him up
the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the for us all, won’t he also give us
power of sin that leads to death.” v. 1-2 everything else?” v. 32
“So, you have not received a spirit that “…for Christ Jesus died for us and was
makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you raised to life for us,
received God’s Spirit when he adopted and he is sitting in the place of honor at
you as his own children. Now we call him, God’s right hand, pleading for us.” v. 35
‘Abba, Father.’” Know this today and remember this as
v. 15 we move on toward Palm Sunday, Holy
“And the Holy Spirit helps us in our Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter; God
weakness. For example, is for us!!! God is for you!!! The story of
we don’t know what God wants us to Jesus shows that God is for us, not against
pray for. But the us!
Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings Sisters and brothers if God is for us
Since 1921 that cannot be what does it matter who is against us!
expressed in words.” v.26 Because God is for us, may each of us live
“And we know that God causes wholeheartedly and passionately for Him!
everything to work together for the good
of those who love God and are called All for Jesus,
Pastor Tim Terrell
5686 SR 1 • St. Joe according to his purpose for them.” v. 28
In the last part of chapter 8 in the New Angola UMC
Called to Grow, Blessed to Share,
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appears several times. I noticed this while Sent to Serve
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When Lent was just beginning, I
A Heroic Act
Neither of these perspectives help us we must do something to overcome the evil At any time, the Holy Spirit can rip off the
happened to see on TV a trailer for Disney’s address the division and brokenness we of the world (or that evil is so strong that it veil and help us see the truth of what Christ
newest movie Raya and the Last Dragon. see. In fact, they will likely reinforce such cannot be overcome and therefore we should accomplished on the cross: that sin and
One of the lines from that trailer gripped divisions and make them more pronounced. just do nothing). The reality Easter shows death are defeated, that we are one in Christ.
me. It said, “our world is divided and in We will not seek to work together with those us is that our world is not divided, that we Typically, we only get brief visions of this
order to restore peace, I must find the last who differ from us because we will think are already one in Christ Jesus (Galatians true reality, glimpses where we recognize
dragon.” The reason this struck me is that they are wrong (or even evil). In such a 3:28). The struggle we face comes from that those around us are neither heroes nor
I consistently hear the beginning of this mindset, we are not going to engage with buying into the lies that this is not true, enemies, but are brothers and sisters who
phrase describing our own world, our own our neighbor who may see things differently that we are somehow still divided, that bear the image of God. These moments
country. That we are divided, along many from us, as we will write our neighbor off there are “true” differences among us that remind us the truth that we are all connected
and various fault lines such as ideology, outright for not being on the “right” side must still be “overcome.” It is believing through Christ who suffered and died that
race, social and economic status, gender (which of course means seeing it the way we those lies (and let us be clear, humanity we may have life. These moments invite us
(and gender identity), etc. I also thought do, or at least as the hero we have chosen has been believing these lies since the truth to engage the world’s suffering to make this
how often we make the solution similar to sees it). I wonder sometimes how often the of the resurrection was revealed) that the truth known, following in the footsteps of
what we hear in this trailer: what we need divisions we see are reinforced because we division continues, that we continue to live the one who has already accomplished life
is something/someone extraordinary in want to live into these epic tales of heroism, in disrupted relationship with one another for us and the world: Jesus Christ: Savior,
order to overcome the cracks and fissures in by waiting for someone else to fix it, or by based upon those previously mentioned Lord, Hero, and Friend.
our world. Recognizing that the burden of being the heroes ourselves and seeking to fault lines. The pain and struggle that
restoring society as needs to be done is too fix the troubles we see. I wonder how we comes from living into the lie of division is Brother Daryl Emowrey
great for any “normal” individual, or even might be better off without these narratives certainly real, and is to be lamented. Calvary Lutheran Church, Angola.
group, we place our hope in “heroes,” in and instead lift up those that reflect life: However, the good news of Easter
those we think are larger than life in order to where different people respect one another reminds us that we need not look any further
solve the problems that seem beyond us. enough to listen to each other, build trust than the past to find the solution to these
This is by no means new, and many great with one another, and take small steps to problems. We need no new hero and no
stories rest upon this premise. In Lord of help one another, knowing that as we lift further heroic act. It is finished already.
the Rings what we need is the destruction of one another up we all rise. I wonder if we
the one ring. In Avatar: the Last Airbender need narratives that show us that people
we need the Avatar to restore balance to don’t have to lose in order for us to win,
the earth. In Harry Potter we need the Boy that we can work toward solutions that are
who Lived to defeat the Dark Lord. Of mutually beneficial. Maybe we need some
course, there are others working in each different stories than the ones we love to
of these stories, but the ultimate hope is in help us better navigate the brokenness we
one action, or individual, in order for the see in the world.
world to be restored as it should be, in order And then, we come to Easter. Suddenly
for the darkness we see in the world to be my thinking around not needing one great
overcome. heroic act, one great hero to solve the
As I reflected on this, I wondered how problems we cannot, crumbles. For our
helpful such narratives are to us who find Easter story reflects the same narrative that
ourselves in a “divided” and “broken” world.
If we think the solution must come through
I first described. We have a problem that no
one can solve: the problem of sin and death. May the light of the risen Christ fill you with God’s
some great individual or act of heroism,
do we think that individual is us, or that
No amount of collective action, or small
steps forward, can address this problem. We love and peace this season of Easter and always!
the act is going to come through us? Does need a force greater than ourselves to do
this give us a way out of engaging with the this. And this is what God decides to do in Service will be at 9:00 AM
world, and taking the small steps necessary Christ. We have in this story God taking To join us remotely, please go to our website
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view seems to undermine what is necessary death and shares with us the power of the We look forward to celebrating the joy of Easter together,
to overcome the division and brokenness resurrection. In Christ, that which divides whether in-person or online!
we see. On the one hand, it may reinforce us from God is overcome, and through this
a sense apathy. Since I am not the one to
fix all the problems of the earth, I will not
unification with God, we find that we are
united to one another. Calvary Lutheran Church
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other hand, we may well see ourselves (or a that we need a hero or some heroic act to 1301 Williams Street, Angola, IN
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Three hours is a good chunk of our day.
Three Hours
around the cross on which God the Son, of us. All of us have a sin problem before forgiven and granted a righteous standing
We can change things in small ways over Jesus, hung broken and bleeding. Perhaps God the Father. We all violate holiness before God the Father. In other words, the
three hours. We can accomplish a major human eyes were too frail to see the cosmic with our wrong thoughts, words, and believer is accepted by God because of the
task in three hours. We can hold a major suffering of Jesus. actions. Our sin problem must be dealt righteousness of Jesus! The sin issue has
meeting in three hours. We can go to the But why did Jesus suffer? Jesus’ own with before our holy Creator. Every human been dealt with.
movie theater or enjoy Friday movie night words at the conclusion of the three hours stands to be judged for sin because God The three hours Jesus spent on the cross
at home in three hours. With Spring upon answer this question with a beautiful is absolutely righteous and holy. On the did literally change the world. However,
us, we can help our yards look green and brutality. Beautiful because these words other hand, God is also absolutely loving. the question to you this Easter is whether
be mulched up for the fun summer ahead in mean everything for the opportunity for Romans 5:8 says, “But God shows his love those three hours have changed your life.
three hours. This Easter time, don’t forget eternal life for every person. Brutality for us in that while we were still sinners, Do you believe Jesus died in your place
the three hours that literally changed the because these words exclaim the cost of Christ died for us.” God, the righteous on the cross? Have you turned away
world. the opportunity for eternal life: For the Judge, made a way for the sin problem of from your broken, sinful life by repenting
In the Bible these three hours are first time in eternity, at the cross, the Father the world could be dealt with, by dying to Jesus that you are a sinner and ask
described in the Book of Matthew: and the Son were relationally separated. Himself! God the Son, Jesus, took the Him to forgive you so that you may gain
Matthew 27:45-46 (ESV) says “Now from The Father forsook His Son Jesus. In the punishment for sin in those three hours on righteousness from God the Father? Three
the sixth hour there was darkness over all darkness of those three hours, God the the cross. The punishment came from God hours is a big chunk of our day. The three
the land until the ninth hour. And about Father punished God the Son for the sins the Father. Isaiah 53:5 boldly states that hours Jesus hung on the cross secured all
the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud of the world. II Corinthians 5:21 captures sinners are healed by the wounds of Jesus. of eternity to be with Him for those that
voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ the exchange that took place on the cross Remember, though, an exchange took believe in Him. Three days after hanging
that is, My God, my God, why have you during those three hours. II Corinthians place on the cross. While Jesus took the on the cross, Jesus rose again. Hope is
forsaken me?” The Jewish day began at 6 5:21 (ESV) says, “For our sake he made punishment for our sin, II Corinthians alive this Easter because Jesus is alive!
a.m. The sixth hour would have been noon, him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in 5:21 states that people can receive His
and the ninth hour would have been 3 p.m. him we might become the righteousness righteousness from His perfect life. The Pastor James Pettit
These three hours were marked by darkness of God.” Jesus lived a perfect life in His sin of any person who believes that Jesus Lakewood Park Baptist Church, Auburn
for those around Jerusalem. It was almost humanity as the God/Man but chose to die died for him/her and asks Jesus in prayer
as if God the Father pulled the curtain a sinner’s death by becoming sin for all to forgive him/her of that sin, is completely
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He is
Thursday, April 1st • 7:00 p.m.
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Sunday, April 4th
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We Have the Receipt
Financial experts encourage us to fact that God has given us a receipt for There is, however, a stark and important the most important truth in the world.
retain receipts and other paperwork after the debt that His Son paid. Jesus’ perfect difference between normal receipts and It is essential that we never forget the
completing large financial transactions. This life, innocent death, and resurrection the Bible. When I pay off a car or finished truth and meaning of the resurrection of
can include the purchase of an expensive mean that the debt of our sins is no longer a student loan, I place the receipt in a file Jesus Christ. Through the God-given gift
item, i.e., a television or other electronic outstanding, but is paid in full! We read for safekeeping; but I don’t check on the of faith in Jesus and the His resurrection,
device, furniture, costly clothing, and the about it in Luke chapter twenty-four. “’Why receipt or read it over again. I just know we receive forgiveness of sins and eternal
like. This advice also applies to paperwork do you seek the living One among the dead? it’s there; and that is sufficient. The Bible life. Additionally, the reality of Jesus’
pertaining to loans for cars, student loans, He is not here, but He has risen.’” These is different. God did not author and give resurrection is the best source of true
credit cards, etc. I’ve always tried to make words are God’s receipt given to us, proving us the Bible in order that we would read it peace; it proves that God is satisfied and
a practice of this; wanting the security that that Jesus is alive, and that, thereby, the debt once, get the message, and subsequently file wants nothing from us in payment for our
comes from having this piece of evidence is paid and we are forgiven our sins. The it away. God intends that we read the Bible sins. Therefore, we stand holy, renewed,
that the debt has been paid. As long as entirety of the Bible is an expansion of this at least regularly, if not daily. This mandate righteous, and ready for heaven before God.
you have the receipt, proof that you made message; Jesus is God’s answer to man’s to read the Bible is not a test. Rather, God Now our Creator listens and responds to
the purchase or paid off the loan, it is predicament. He is the fulfillment of Moses knows that the world, the devil, and our our prayers, gives us all that we need for
impossible (or at least much more difficult) and prophets of the Old Testament, and the sinful nature are always leading us to doubt life in this world, and promises to maintain
our faith in Him until the day He takes us
for the other party to claim that the debt or center of everything in the New Testament. Jesus, the resurrection, and the fact that we
home.
any part of it remains outstanding. God gives us this receipt as proof and a are fully forgiven. Our Heavenly Father
As we celebrate the resurrection of Our constant reminder that the balance of our entreats us to make His Word part of our Pastor Philip Rigdon
Lord Jesus Christ, we are mindful of the iniquities stands at zero. daily routine in order that we never forget St. John’s Lutheran Church, Kendallville
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Focus on Jesus
John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the had never seen or understood.
Come for Easter and
be a part of the family!
way and the truth and the life. No one We want things our ways so much that Service begins at
comes to the Father except through me. we are blind to what is before our eyes. 9 am for Nevada!
It is something my flocks and I have Nature is a gift, and when we focus on
been doing for several weeks. It seems so Jesus, we see the beauty in our area coming
simple, yet we get off track quickly. When back to life with rebirth. The gift of spring.
we look at the life of Jesus, we learn so We, too, can come alive in renewal when
much about living when we focus. Focus we focus on Jesus and say yes to being part
takes determination and carving out of our of the kingdom of God. Journeying with
day time to read, ponder, and reflect. Are Jesus focuses on love when it is hard, how
you giving Jesus space in your day and to walk through painful valleys, and how to
your heart? notice the beauty of a moment.
This year I have been wearing a bracelet Focusing on Jesus, focusing on love,
that has the acronym HWLF. It stands and doing life together make life sweeter.
for He Would Love First. It answers the So thankful we have a Jesus to show us the For more information contact
question of What Would Jesus Do, WWJD, way, the truth, and life. Celebrate Easter Pastor Tracey
another acronym many of us know. WE with Focus! @ pastortraceyann@gmail.com
know that he loved. He loved as he healed. Pastor Tracey
He loved as he spoke and helped people be Fremont & Nevada Mills UMC,
awakened to the truth before them that they Senior Pastor Nevada Mills
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Angola, IN 46783
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Good News
Are you finally ready for good news for We are forgiven, set free, and given new
our world? After all our world has been life as we become followers of Jesus. Jesus'
through in the last year, I think we all need death and resurrection is God's rescue plan
good news for our lives. Corrie Ten Boom, to bring healing and restoration to our
a Dutch Christian who helped hide Jews broken world. On that first Easter morning,
from the Nazis during WWII, once said, “If hope rose from the grave. There is hope for
you look at the world, you'll be distressed. your life and our world. Jesus is for you!
If you look within, you'll be depressed. But Jesus is for everyone! Come join us at St.
if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest." Mark's this Easter as we hear and celebrate
At Easter we not only have some good the Good News of Jesus' resurrection and
news, but we also have the Good News! discover what it means for our lives today!
Through Jesus' life, death and resurrection
we are given new and everlasting life as Pastor Jon Hunter
we put our trust in Him. On the cross Jesus St. Mark's Lutheran Church
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Best Holiday
Isn’t it interesting how Christmas gets so
much attention, starting weeks in advance?
made it clearer. The entire Christian faith
rises and falls on the resurrection of Jesus.
EASTER
CELEBRATION
We barely get past Halloween and the If there is no resurrection, there is no
stores are already decorated for Christmas. Christianity. Yes, celebrating the birth of
Add to that the outdoor lights, the Jesus at Christmas is very significant and
Christmas songs on the radio, the cookies, important, but if Jesus doesn’t eventually
the trees, the presents and you have quite rise from the dead, then His birth means
the buildup for the “Most Wonderful Time nothing.
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of the Year.” Whether someone recognizes Paul goes on to say in 1 Corinthians
the birth of Jesus as the reason for the 15:20, “But Christ has indeed been raised
season or not, it seems the majority of
people can’t wait for Christmas to arrive.
from the dead.” Jesus really was born, He
really died on a cross and He really rose Sunday, April 4 | 9:30 & 11:00am | All Campuses
But what about Easter? Where’s the from the dead. Hundreds of eyewitnesses
buildup for Easter? Why don’t we see went to their graves, many tortured to Join us in person or watch live online at
such a pronounced effort in our culture death, confirming these facts. On top of countylinechurch.org
to celebrate Easter? Sure, we see some all this, Paul said in Romans 10:9, “If you
displays in the stores depicting the Easter declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’
Bunny, candy, eggs and so on, but nothing and believe in your heart that God raised
compared to Christmas. But isn’t Easter,
arguably, the most important holiday of the
Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
This is why celebrating Easter is the most
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In 1 Corinthians 15:13 and 14, the When you consider the hope surrounding it,
Apostle Paul writes this, “If there is no what could be better? So, make a point to Garrett Campus: 105 W. 6th Ave., Garrett
resurrection of the dead, then not even be at the church of your choice this Easter
Christ has been raised. And if Christ has to celebrate the best holiday of the year.
not been raised, our preaching is useless
and so is your faith.” Paul could not have Stuart Kruse, Senior Pastor
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Will there be an Easter bunny this year?
Religion loves symbols. Yes, almost close! Throughout the centuries, the hare rabbit in her left. The painting hangs in the aged them to bake bread and cakes in the
every religion calls us to look inside of was used as a symbol of the Holy Trinity, Louvre in Paris. I recommend you look shape of a rabbit for Easter. A bit later,
ourselves and to spend time in silence as a symbol of the Virgin Mary, and as the it up online (Titian, Mary and the infant the new Swiss chocolate makers got hold
contemplating the meaning of life and symbol of the virtue of hope. To this day, Jesus with a rabbit, 1530). The bread and of the idea and gave us one of the most
death and resurrection. Yet religion also in old Orthodox and Catholic churches wine represent the crucifixion, the rabbit wonderful inventions of all: the chocolate
invites us to see things, to hear them, feel from Paderborn in Germany to Devon in represents the resurrection. Easter Bunny!
them, taste them, smell them, from church England, a common motif on wall paintings For centuries, the rabbit was a symbol The Easter Bunny is, therefore, an old
bells and Sunday bulletins to Christmas and stained-glass windows shows three of the Virgin Mary because even the and deeply Christian symbol, even when
trees and Easter bonnets. hares in a circle, ear to ear, with the tip of ancient Greeks and Romans thought that made of chocolate. Whether you eat the
But bunnies? Why bunnies? How and each hare’s ears becoming the head of the rabbits were “born pregnant” and therefore ears first or last – those ears give praise to
why did the rabbit become a symbol of hare behind him. The motif symbolizes the represented virginal birth, just like how the Father, the Spirit, and the Resurrected
Christ’s resurrection? Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It comes from Jesus was born of Mary. In Titian’s Son. Together with colored eggs and
It started a long time ago in the 4th a drawing first done up by St. Athanasius painting, the rabbit seems to be Jesus, the colorful clothing, joyful hymns and happy
century, when Christians began carving in the 4th century to explain the Nicene fruit of Mary’s womb. For Titian and other congregations, the bunnies make visible our
rabbits on their tombstones to show their Creed. artists, a hopping rabbit was a symbol of rejoicing at the resurrection of the Savior of
the world. Blessings for Easter, and enjoy
faith in the resurrection. Early church In 1530, the artist Titian painted a Jesus “hopping” out of the tomb.
your bunnies!
leaders (the Church Fathers) also used the beautiful scene with the baby Jesus and Then came Martin Luther. Wanting to
hare as a prop to explain the Holy Trinity. the Virgin Mary. Mary has bread and wine give the people a visible symbol of Easter Friar Bob
The hare is not a rabbit, of course, but it’s at her right hand and clutches a white that they could take home, Luther encour- St. Anthony of Padua Catholic ChurchMarch 30, 2021 ©KPC Media Group Inc. • kpcnews.com Easter Prayer & Worship 13
The Holy Spirit is at work at
New Life Lutheran Church of Waterloo!
4 Baptisms so far this year!
Praise the Lord for His Amazing Grace!
Every 10:30 a.m. Sunday Worship Service features:
• Gospel Based Sermon • 4 Bible Readings • Holy Communion
• Confession of Sins • Prayer • Jr. Church
Following Worship We Have Fellowship Refreshment Time!
Visitors Welcome and Expected!
For Youth we have:
Jr. Church, Acolyting, First Communion Instruction, Confirmation Classes!
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A true story of Christ’s amazing grace!
At this Easter season I am honored One evening my wife and I were at Who would not be dismayed? in Hell until by Christ’s Amazing Grace
to share with you a true story of Christ’s home when suddenly The Holy Spirit put it But I had GOOD NEWS FOR HIM! working through the Holy Spirit he was
amazing grace which does pass all human upon me to go at once and see this man! IT WAS NOT TOO LATE! saved!
understanding! I told my wife “We need to go to So I asked him if he wished to be Saved from hell and saved for eternity in
Several years ago now I was calling on a Kendallville!” baptised and he at once answered in the heaven!
95 year old gentleman. Amazing woman that she is she must affirmative! How I PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS
For several years I had called on his have understood at once that the Holy So without any delay I baptised him in AMAZING GRACE!
sister who shared a home with him. Spirit was sending me to Kendallville! the name of The Father, The Son and the As long as we have the breath of life
Prior to that I had called on another So off to Kendallville we went! Holy Spirit and marked his forehead with within us it is not too late to be saved! I
sister of his and officiated at her funeral I wasted no time but very soon after the sign of the cross! saw a true miracle that night at the nursing
and burial. our arrival I asked him if he had ever been I knew it was the Holy Spirit leading me home in Kendallville!
Our conversations were brief but baptised? and leading him! Truly with God all things are possible
cordial. The Holy Spirt had led me to go to He thanked me over and over! and nothing is impossible!
He was a man of few words. Kendallville and ask him this question. Just a few days later the man died. AMAZING GRACE, HOW SWEET
Then he became ill and moved to a “No and it is too late now”he lamanted! Not a shock as he knew and we knew he THE SOUND!
nursing home in Kendallville where I Oh how I wish you could have heard the did not have long to live! Rev. Merle R. Holden, Pastor
started calling on him. dismay in his voice! But oh-PRAISE THE LORD-what New Life Lutheran Church of Waterloo
I could find no evidence of his ever He knew death was near and after that GOOD NEWS I preached at his funeral!
being involved in any church. hell! He was headed straight for an eternity
You’re invited!
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