Welcome to Easter week at BBT.  I hope you are making plans to join us this Sunday.  Last week Pris talked about all the violence we are faced with every week.  She explained how we are to show the peace of God to an angry world.  It is easy to get caught up in violence and looking for revenge but God has a better plan for our lives.  I spoke about how so many people do not want to look at, talk about or think about the week leading up to Easter. They just want to talk about the resurrection but not the Cross.  As we talked about last week there would be no resurrection without the death of Christ.  We may not like to look at it but it is the reason we have eternal life and forgiveness of our sins. I encouraged everyone to remember what Jesus went through this week and the suffering of Good Friday.

 This Sunday we are going to look at that first Easter morning when Mary came to visit the gravesite. The scripture verse this week is the Gospel of John 20: 1-18. There is so much going on in these scriptures, Mary sees the stone rolled away and runs and tells Peter & John,  they came running and see the linen clothes laying in the tomb.  They leave discouraged to go back where they came from, Mary sees the angels in the tomb then Jesus appears to her and she did not recognize him till he called her by name.  This is not what they expected but it is what God planned.  We are going to look at the reactions of Mary as she finally realizes that no one stole the body of Jesus but that he was alive again just as he said he would be.  I hope you will join us Sunday as we celebrate Easter together.  We will be having dinner following the service so plan on making it a great day worshiping and fellowshipping together at BBT.

Please pray for all those mentioned in our prayer request last week.  Invite someone to join with us Sunday and we celebrate the Resurrection of Christ.  Do something good for the people you come in contact with this week and remind everyone you meet That Christ rose!!

We love you so much,

Pastor David & Pris