04/05/2026
An Easter message from Chaplain Nick S.
Matthew 28:2 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.
“Christ is Risen, He is risen indeed Hallelujah!”
Many churches this year will listen to the account of Christ’s resurrection according to the Gospel of Matthew. Through it, we are especially reminded of Christ’s victory and triumph over death, and over those things that cause death in our daily living. The huge stone sealing Jesus’ tomb from the rest of the world is powerfully rolled away; akin to the power and turbulence of an earthquake. Christ is triumphant! Death has been defeated! Jesus is completely, powerfully, and fully victorious.
This Easter be encouraged and reminded that those things causing hardship and distress in your life; those things literally causing death in your life; those things sealing us from God and from one another; that Christ Jesus’ work at the tomb informs us of his objection. “Death does not have the final say! Life, hope, love, grace, and reconciliation, these things are victorious and triumphant.” This Easter season may the victory and triumph of life, hope, love, grace, and reconciliation shake and rattle away the hardship and distress of the brokenness around you, and may you find comfort in the reassurance that Christ has utterly defeated death in the age to come.