Happy Resurrection Day!

Ok, has anyone noticed that there is no big debate about "Easter" like there is over "Christmas"? There's no one saying "Oh, we can't say Easter, we can only say "Happy Spring."

Well, of course there's no debate because Easter is the celebration of the fertility goddess Ishtar. Have you never wondered what bunnies and eggs have to do with the resurrection of Christ? Why don't the same Christians who get all riled up about Christmas get riled up about the change of what should be called "Resurrection Day" to the name of a pagan goddess? We're not celebrating Spring, or fertility or rabbits, we're celebrating the reason for our faith!
After all, Paul said that "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless you are still in your sins...If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied." (I Cor 16:17,19)

So this weekend as you go about your festivities, whatever they may be, muster up the courage to tell people to have a wonderful "Resurrection Day" and may it be a chance to share our faith or at least to remember the reason why we have such hope!

Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory. O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore my beloved bretheren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
I Corinthians 15:51-58