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These Churches Invite YOU
HEPPNER CHURCHES
All Saints Memorial (Episcopal)
First Methodist Church
Heppner Church of Christ
St. Patrick's Catholic Church
The Assembly of God
LEXINGTON
Lexington Church of Christ
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Co-Operative Church of lone
St. Williams Catholic Church
BOARDMAN
Community Church
IRRIGON
Assembly of God
Baptist Community Church
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On the morning of Easter the Christians
of an earlier day used to exchange this
greeting : "The Lord is risen," and the an
swer: "He is risen indeed"-a statement
not simply of an event in time, but of a
process in eternity.
And the great missionary apostle wrote
n his letter to the Colossian Christians,
"If (or since) ye be risen with Christ, seek
these things which are above, where Christ
sitteth on the right, hand of God," and
adds, that the way to accomplish it is to
"set your affections on things above, not
on things on the earth."
These words seem to suggest a little as
to the meaning of Easter: The setting
forth of an eternal fact, and just a hint as
to the interpretation and personal appli
cation of that fact.
The friends of the Crucifixion had giv
en the world a picture of death, of dark
ness, of despair. The Hope of the world
nailed to the cross and dying between two
thieves. The disciples, who trusted that He
it was who would redeem Israel, broken
hearted, scattered, defeated.
Abruptly, completely, the scene
changes and Easter Day gives a picture
that makes hope live again. Something
has transpired that transforms defeat
into victory, something that transforms
the beaten, defected, disillusioned disci
ples into a dynamic, courageous body that
carried the gospel message throughout
the length and breadth of the great em
pire of Rome, and that within three-quarters
of a century.
Easter brings a cross that is empty; a
tomb that is empty, and a message from
the Eternal Truth that tells of Light and
Life. Easter tells us that death is not a
wall, but a door; a door into a shadowy
passageway that leads through darkness
into light the light of God's presence.
In the words of one of the greatest of
all war-time chaplains:
"I know
There is no death. 'Tis but a phantom
fear
That haunts thesoul apart from God.
Christ rose!
The stone was rolled away, and echoing
His voice startled Death's sentry guards.
"Behold
I live forever, and have cast the keys
Of Hell into the bottomless abyss."
Lift up your heads, ye golden gates, for
all
To enter in who will to walk the way.
Christ lives! And round the living Christ,
new worlds
Burn to their birth in light; new triumph
songs
Make music 'mid the silent stars, and
swell
Like ocean's thunder on a sounding
shore.
Life! Life! More Life! Christ lives for-evermore."
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