Easter and Passover

Hey!

It's an unusual Easter week this year, since Western (Protestant and Catholic) and Eastern (Orthodox) Easter and Jewish Passover all fall at the same time.

So happy Easter to all of us! May Christ's sacrifice not be in vain. I pray for Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox' Christians who might just be nominal Christians (we have many nominal Orthodox Christians here in Ukraine). I pray that they'll truly come to see and believe that CHRIST IS TRULY RISEN, and the he is alive today, and can make all the differene in their lives.

I pray for the Jews as well that they'll see Jesus in their Passover celebration. That they'll see that God made Passover to be a foretaste of what would happen when Jesus would come down to planet earth and give up his life as the eternal, atoning sacrifice for all sins past, present and future. Jesus wept over Jerusalem when he rode into the city on Palm Sunday, because they didn't believe in him as the Messiah. He still weeps, and he calls Jews to believe in him and experience the freedom he has bought for them.

And I pray for all believers that we will see Jesus for who he truly is, and stand in awe in front of him and worship him for his sacrifice for us. "It is finished!!" Christ yelled from the cross. And it is. Let's celebrate that!

Happy Easter everyone!

Torben - "In Christ Alone"

In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
'Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live

There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost it's grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Brought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand