Lakeside Community Presbyterian Church

How can I help?

Those are words that a pastor loves to hear, so when I hear those words from someone, my thoughts begin to dream of possibilities. What could I have this person do that would be helpful at church? Can they help in the office? Maybe they can do work in our garden? Maybe they can make phone call to a person who is new to attending LCPC?

If there is one thing that would help more than anything else at LCPC is for you to pray. Prayer is a critical aspect of our church’s ministry.

If there is one thing that you can do right now for me and for our church it is to pray.

Together, as we place our future in God’s hand, we will be doing what He has called us to do, and we can have an impact for His kingdom in our community.

So, how can you help? Pray. That would be a huge gift.

See you on Sunday as we continue to look at God’s Promises.

Easter has come and gone and sometimes there is a let-down after all of the preparations for a celebration. We tend to put a lot of energy and hype leading up to our celebrations and then, once the day is over and we turn the calendar page, we move on to the next celebration. It happens every Thanksgiving and it happens every Christmas. The season of Eastertide helps us not to do that.

We are a week into the Christian season known as “Eastertide,” The 50-day period that the church recognizes between Easter and Pentecost.

Eastertide isn’t a very commonly used word in our world but the 50 days after Easter helps us to remember and continue to celebrate Christ’s resurrection. We need these days. We need to remember the miracle of Christ’s resurrection from the dead and the promises that were kept because of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection.

To help set the stage for the promises that God made we are starting a sermon series this Sunday entitled, “God’s Promises.” We are going to look at the promises or covenants that God made in the Old Testament that led up to the new promise, the New Covenant through Jesus Christ.

So bring your Bible and get ready to circle, highlight, underline, and take notes as we set the foundation for what took place on Easter that gives us hope for the future.

Easter Sunday will be the grand celebration of the start of a new season in the life of the Christian Church. Jesus’ resurrection from the dead means that there is a change, a shift in our journey with God.

Lent marked a time when we walked with Christ to the cross. Day by day, we paused to do some introspection, to offer prayers of forgiveness, and to daily make sacrifices, in remembering the 40 days that Jesus spent in the wilderness.

In church we refrained from saying “Hallelujah”, but Easter marks a change in our outlook on life. With Christ’s victory over death there is new life, a new way of living, and it touches our relationship with God, our neighbors, and our world. The cross purchased an unending, infinite amount of grace and love for every daughter and son of the Christ follower. The empty grave reminds us that Christ conquered death. The silence was over. Death has no sting and because of this reality we live our lives differently.

My prayer for each of us is that we would live life differently because of Easter. May the resurrection of Christ cause us to be “Easter people” who portray a love for God, for our neighbor, and for our world as we seek to make disciples of those that don’t know Him.

See you on Easter Sunday at 9:45am as we celebrate our new lives because of Christ’s resurrection.