He is RISEN!!!!
He is risen, indeed!!!
Easter is my favorite holiday...the call and response of that phrase, "He is Risen," just strikes my soul with such beauty:)
Friday i went to the Good Friday service at BOSS. sherwood was on fire that night. He spoke about "The Good News About the Death of Christ."
I learned something new this weekend from the scriptures. Unfortunately i will admit to usually loathing the "major" holiday services at church because i've "heard it all..." (God, how ridiculous that i could say that about your unceasing wonders?!). From 12p until 3p there was a great darkness over the land, as if it were night time. Sherwood pointed out that Jesus took on all of our sin in that time. That, where there is sin, there is darkness...it's so true. we try to hide our sin and wrong-doings in the darkness. As if we could keep anything from God!
Saturday night the whole Boylan family went to BOSS. Mom had to fly out to Arizona today with grandma to help take care of Grandma's brother who has fallen ill. This morning Evan and i went to BOSS again. I've never felt more secure in any church. Every time i go to a service at BOSS, i feel like i am where i belong.
A bit of scripture Sherwood did not include in his sermon, but that spoke to me this Easter, is found in Mathew 26, verse 39. "Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, 'My Father, if it is at all possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as i will, but as you will'" (emphasis mine). What a beautiful example of surrender to God's will and not our own...
We missed mom at dinner tonight!! Not the same with a missing link at the dinner table:(
Easter is my favorite holiday...the call and response of that phrase, "He is Risen," just strikes my soul with such beauty:)
Friday i went to the Good Friday service at BOSS. sherwood was on fire that night. He spoke about "The Good News About the Death of Christ."
I learned something new this weekend from the scriptures. Unfortunately i will admit to usually loathing the "major" holiday services at church because i've "heard it all..." (God, how ridiculous that i could say that about your unceasing wonders?!). From 12p until 3p there was a great darkness over the land, as if it were night time. Sherwood pointed out that Jesus took on all of our sin in that time. That, where there is sin, there is darkness...it's so true. we try to hide our sin and wrong-doings in the darkness. As if we could keep anything from God!
Saturday night the whole Boylan family went to BOSS. Mom had to fly out to Arizona today with grandma to help take care of Grandma's brother who has fallen ill. This morning Evan and i went to BOSS again. I've never felt more secure in any church. Every time i go to a service at BOSS, i feel like i am where i belong.
A bit of scripture Sherwood did not include in his sermon, but that spoke to me this Easter, is found in Mathew 26, verse 39. "Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, 'My Father, if it is at all possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as i will, but as you will'" (emphasis mine). What a beautiful example of surrender to God's will and not our own...
We missed mom at dinner tonight!! Not the same with a missing link at the dinner table:(
Mom and dad last night at Ettore's. Dylan and me at Ettore's.
xoxo, a most grateful servant of the King