Krisdos Hareav ee Merelots! Christ is Risen from the Dead!

Not only am I warming up the crowd with that greeting, I also intend to make this our simple and profound Easter greeting the topic of today’s sermon. Like any greeting, like ‘how are you,’ it is used so formally that it can lose its meaning. It can become part of the furniture in a room that we never notice.  But there is a big difference when you say ‘how are you’ like ‘hey,’ and when you actually mean ‘how…are…you???’  Today my goal is to help us redeem ‘Christ is Risen from the Dead’ from a once a year spiritual ‘hey’ to God and others, to recover its spiritual depth as a life phrase that can guide us on our way for a healthy and joyful Christian life.