Easter Sunday & Confirmation

Sermon Text: Colossians 3:3-4

Life in Christ shines with the glory of his love which died for us that we might live out the goodness of God. A biological definition of life will describe the physics of what’s going on until you end in death and feed other organisms. And our society will describe life in what you can do or experience, marking death as when you aren’t able to do those things anymore–even if your heart is still beating. Neither of these things see you as truly valuable, especially when we see that Christ valued you so as to take your own death upon himself–suffering evils that you might not die eternally but be found in his love and grace in this life and the next. Now your life is hidden in Christ’s glory which shines from you. This is the glory which loves more, forgives freer, and cares more compassionately than a life concerned with biology or activity. The glory of Christ is lived out as Christ lives in you.