I greet this morn, for today we celibrate our risen Lord.

Today is the principal Christian feast and celibration, it is when we join with the early disciples and rejoice that He is risen, He did not die, but defeated death. The disciples not only celibrated the risen Jesus, but they were also celibrating that they had been saved from utter depression, defeat and evil. Jesus had shown that he was a man of his word and what he said was to  be trusted. Thank you Lord.

A few years ago whilst staying in Jerusalem on a Friday night at sundown, or the start of the Sabat (Sabbath), I with a few other travelers were dragged to a West Bank settlement to celibrate the Sabbat.

Present were a good number of Israeli believers (Christians), a Palestinian believer, a Lancashire Jewish believer and us. It was afamily affair. They celibrate the start of the Sabat with a party. And boy, oh boy, what a party, they know how to do that, as the photos show. The kids were wild and uncontrolable, but lovely and friendly, note my bunny ears. We all made lots of friends that night.

So today is Easter Sunday, so let us celibrate the risen Lord!