Posts with the tag “easter-at-opendoor-2024”

By Pastor Miriam Wamer: I have vivid memories growing up as a PK in the 90s during the Easter Season: Creative and memorable Children’s Church lessons with salvation bracelet crafts (you know, the one with a pipe cleaner and colorful, plastic beads, each one representing a different part of the gospel), crescent roll tombs and disappearing marshmallows (mind-blowing and delicious), and vibrant green palm branches waving as we sing, “Hosanna.”   Read More

By Pastor Aaron Kennedy: Do you remember? “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? He isn’t here He is risen from the dead Remember what he told you back in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.”   Read More

By Pastor Michael Chandler: If you attended or watched our Maundy service, this post will be a continuation of a thought that I introduced at the close of the service. I have long been fascinated with the last few days of Jesus’ life. I can’t imagine the pressure of the moment He must have felt.   Read More