As a young

man, D. L. Moody was called upon suddenly to preach a

funeral sermon.

He hunted

all through the four Gospels trying to find one of

Christ's funeral sermons, but searched in vain. He found

that Christ broke up every funeral He ever attended.

Death did not count, did not exist where He was. When the

dead heard His voice they sprang to life. Jesus said, I

am the resurrection and the life. (John 11:25)

This Easter

Sunday, we are holding our Easter sunrise service at a

seemingly unusual, eerie place. It is the place very much

like the first Easter. The first Easter all started in a

cemetery when the women who loved Jesus went to the

borrowed tomb where he had laid for three days only to

find that He had risen just as he said he would.

Again

death, (one of man's oldest enemies) could not hold Him.

Because He lives, we the believers and followers of Jesus

will live also after death. Just imagine what that first

Easter in heaven will be like!

This Easter

our Easter sunrise service will be Easter Sunday, April

23 at 8 a.m. at the Holly Hills Cemetery on Ga. Highway

29 at in Fairburn, Ga. A light continental breakfast will

follow.

I was

watching the news today and saw all the political

wrangling over the young Cuban boy whose mother died by

drowning while they were trying to escape Castro's

communist government. In Castro's Godless government,

they control people through the threats of harm to family

members if they do not sing his party line

I thought

of the exact opposite of the way God's plan works for

believers. Unlike Castro, God puts our families all back

together again, not through control, but out of love for

us to all be with Him and with each other for eternity in

Heaven.

Praise the

Lord for God's resurrection and the life through His son

Jesus.

The Rev.

Dr. Knox Herndon is the pastor of His House Community

Church (SBC) and a substitute school teacher in the

Fayette County school system, and a former Army chaplain.

The church is currently meeting in the American Legion

Log Cabin across from the fountain on the Square in

Fayetteville. Prayer line 770-719-2365 e-mail [email protected] .