WORSHIP NOTES Volume 18, Nr. 4 (April 2023) “Easter” is the period of eight Sundays [until Pentecost], comprising fifty days, often called as a unit “the Great Fifty Days.” For the explosive force of the resurrection of the Lord is too vast to be contained within a celebration of one day. The recovery of Easter as “the Great Fifty Days” of the year can move the church along toward …
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 14, No. 5 (May 2019) The Great Fifty Days of the Easter season (Eastertide) will culminate in the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost: He presented Himself alive to them after His suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them He ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the …
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 11, No. 4 (April 2016) As Michael Farley has written, Easter is a season of celebration. Easter is a time of joyfully retelling and remembering the true story that Jesus was not defeated by death, but rose again from the grave three days later (Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20)! . . . Christianity stands or falls with the resurrection of Jesus. The Apostle Paul wrote, …
