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Why Easter Matters! (Easter Sermon)

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What a wonderful Holy Week and Easter Sunday!   We hope you were blessed through our Holy Thursday Communion Service, the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, and our marvelous Easter Services this past Sunday.   Below is the sermon video and transcript from Sunday.  You can find all our sermon videos from Lent on our website -  http://fumcocala.org/first-united-methodist-church-sermons/ I love Easter Sunday.  I love it as a pastor, but I loved it even more as a kid.  I grew up at a time when you had to get a new outfit to wear to church on Easter: The Easter suit. I don’t miss that so much as it inevitably involved wearing a tie. I loved the Easter basket, even if the ears where always mysteriously eaten off my chocolate rabbit. I remember being a bit homesick when I was in college and working at a church so I could not come home for Easter. In mail arrived a chocolate Easter rabbit from my mother, and yes – the ears where still eaten off. Childhood mystery solved. I ca