The End of Easter
Children’s Sermon 24 May 2026 Good morning, guys. How are we doing? Excited for summer? Guess what today is? That’s right; it’s Pentecost. And what do we celebrate at Pentecost? Kind of a lot of things. But mostly we celebrate that today’s the end of Easter! Not that it’s the end in the sense of it being over, mind you, but “end” in the sense of it being Easter’s purpose, its climax, the point of the story. We all know that Jesus rose from the dead at Easter, right? That’s kind of our whole deal as Christians. Jesus trampled down death by death, and having conquered Hell and freed the souls imprisoned down below, He then ascended unto Heaven in order to set the cosmos right. It’s a great story, our favorite story. But then Jesus did something even more amazing: He made us into Him. Sounds a little wild, doesn’t it? But think about it. When we come to Church, we are given Jesus’ Name, “Christian.” We are given Jesus’ Body and His Spirit and His Blood; that’s what Baptism and Communion a...
