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 are. And then we are sent out, together, to do what Jesus does for all the world.

And you and me and everybody here, we each have a little bit of God inside of us. It’s true. We have God’s Holy Spirit, who is the Life and Breath of God, the Life and Breath of Jesus, alive within our hearts. And that Spirit makes us all one in the Church, one in Jesus, one with God. And so now our job, our calling, is to share Jesus with the world.

How do you think we do that? How do we go out and share Jesus, be Jesus, for people who need Him? It’s through love, isn’t it? Jesus told us to go out there and love everyone in the way that He loves us. God’s love frees us to go and love the world.

So whenever we feed the hungry, or house the homeless, or welcome the stranger, or visit the sick, or forgive or teach or tell the truth or even just share a cup of water with someone who is thirsty, that’s Jesus’ Spirit living in us. And that is what we’re celebrating here today at Pentecost.

Jesus is risen! Alleluia! And now Jesus also lives in you.

Sound good? Okay. Let’s pray.