Lasting Sweetness

Children’s Sermon

12 April 2026

Well, guys, we did it. We told the Church’s best and biggest story. It took us eight whole days to do it.

We told the story along with our brothers and sisters from all over the world, with Christians from Japan and China and Russia and India and Lebanon and Brazil and Germany and France and Canada. We told the story of Jesus’ Resurrection for everyone to hear. Alleluia!

So now I guess there’s just one question left for me to ask: Who still has some Easter candy?

Show of hands. You do? What did you get? I got a chocolate peanut butter egg and a chocolate caramel bunny. And they lasted maybe a day and a half. Not much more than 24 hours.

It doesn’t take long to get through the good stuff, does it? But we must try to make Easter last a little bit longer than that. Because who knows how long we celebrate Easter? How many days? Good guess, good guess.

Would you believe it? The answer is 50. Easter lasts for 50 days, right up until Pentecost, which means—anybody know what Pentecost means?—the 50th day. Pentecost is the 50th and final day of Easter. And that seems like a long time to celebrate, doesn’t it? I have enough trouble convincing people that Christmas really is 12 days long. They don’t believe me.

50 days is a long time for modern people to celebrate. But here in the Church, we’re going to do it anyway. We’re going to celebrate Easter for the whole 50 days, a week of weeks; because that helps to remind us that really every Sunday should be a little Easter. Every Sunday ought to be a joyful celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection.

Christ is alive! And just as He is risen, so shall we all arise. That’s our message for the world. That’s the story that we never get sick of telling, because it’s all about Jesus’ love for us.

At that’s why every day should have a bit of Easter joy.

Sound good? Okay. Let’s pray.