LISTEN – every one of us has one of those days on left. NOW - I want you to look at your tombstone.

(Yeah, that was a little creepy, wasn’t it?) Go ahead and do this – and as you are writing yours I write down mine… AND - what I want you to do, (on the tombstone provided in your notes) is to write your name and then underneath it write when you were born – (now you can hide it with your hand if you want to) – then put a dash and then I want you to write 20_ _. TAKE OUT - a pen if you haven’t already (share if you need to). OKAY - I want to asked you to do something that I asked some of you to do back on December 30th. I would look at the dash of a particular person’s marker and wondered, What did they live for? Who did they love? What were their passions and dreams? What were their biggest mistakes and greatest regrets? I would find myself wondering what life was like in the mid 1800’s.ĪND - looking at those tombstones, I couldn’t help but notice that when all was said and done that entire lives were reduced to two dates and one little dash. IT – was crazy seeing the names of people who lived over 100 years ago and who fought in the civil war. Outside of the chapel was a cemetery.Ī lot of times either before or after church I would walk through the small cemetery reading the names and looking at the dates on the gravestones. FIRST – by the Confederate Army who turned it into a commissary and then later by the Union Army who turned it into a stable.

The chapel we met in on Sunday nights was built in the early 1860’s and was occupied during the Civil War. Across the street from the church was the house where George Washington slept on his way to the battle of Yorktown. I attended a church there (Lebanon Church of Christ) that was started in 1825 and surrounded by history. – John 14:11,12īACK – in the early 1980’s I was in the USN stationed in Newport News and I lived in Yorktown Va. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. Phil 2:5īelieve me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. In your lives you must think and act like Christ Jesus. We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do. God wants us to grow up… like Christ in everything. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. OKAY – I want to read 4 passages as we begin today… THEN – we’ll invite God into our time this morning… THAT’S – why we decided to leave the Easter Door up for one more week… TO REMIND – each of us, that Jesus is STILL alive – that the wall between us and God (between us and the life God created us to live) is STILL knocked down and that the Easter Door (the door of forgiveness, restoration and hope) is STILL open for you to walk through and experience: forgiveness, restoration and hope. WOW – last Sunday was an incredible day… God really spoke to us His people in a huge way about what His Son accomplished on that first Easter Sunday 2000 years ago.

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