The New Has Come!
Patrick Edwards
2 Corinthians 5:16-6:2
Introduction
I've made a lot of transitions in my life. My parents moved around a lot when I was a kid, so felt like I was always entering a new school. There, of course, was the typical transition of moving away and adapting to college, and then moving to North Carolina by myself for graduate school. I've transitioned jobs over the years, moved my family 1500 miles. But of all the transitions I've been through I'm torn in deciding which has been the toughest: getting married or having your first child. That first year of marriage was rough, because I had no idea how to be anything but a single guy and I had no idea just how sinful and selfish I was. So there were definitely many tense moments of trying to learn how to co-exist, let alone love and serve each other. But nothing was shock to the total psyche and routine of life like having a child.
All the sudden everything changes with the birth of your first and nothing is ever the same again. You're constantly having to think about feeding the baby, changing the baby. A quick run out to the store isn't quite so simple anymore, a relaxing dinner out becomes a thing of the past, your car is now packed full of all sorts of things like strollers, car seats, pack-and-plays. Needless to say, your relationship with your spouse, finding time together, changes. When new life comes into the world everything changes in your life.
This is the spirit and this is the meaning of Easter. Though the exact meaning and origin of the English word 'Easter' has been disputed and debated throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, nearly all explanations come back to various words in Germanic and Anglo-Saxon, all meaning east or dawn. In other words, in the word Easter itself is the idea of a new dawn, a new day, a new thing that is happening. Thus, while we should be always meditating on the new work of God in Christ, Easter Sunday is a special time of the year when ...
Patrick Edwards
2 Corinthians 5:16-6:2
Introduction
I've made a lot of transitions in my life. My parents moved around a lot when I was a kid, so felt like I was always entering a new school. There, of course, was the typical transition of moving away and adapting to college, and then moving to North Carolina by myself for graduate school. I've transitioned jobs over the years, moved my family 1500 miles. But of all the transitions I've been through I'm torn in deciding which has been the toughest: getting married or having your first child. That first year of marriage was rough, because I had no idea how to be anything but a single guy and I had no idea just how sinful and selfish I was. So there were definitely many tense moments of trying to learn how to co-exist, let alone love and serve each other. But nothing was shock to the total psyche and routine of life like having a child.
All the sudden everything changes with the birth of your first and nothing is ever the same again. You're constantly having to think about feeding the baby, changing the baby. A quick run out to the store isn't quite so simple anymore, a relaxing dinner out becomes a thing of the past, your car is now packed full of all sorts of things like strollers, car seats, pack-and-plays. Needless to say, your relationship with your spouse, finding time together, changes. When new life comes into the world everything changes in your life.
This is the spirit and this is the meaning of Easter. Though the exact meaning and origin of the English word 'Easter' has been disputed and debated throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, nearly all explanations come back to various words in Germanic and Anglo-Saxon, all meaning east or dawn. In other words, in the word Easter itself is the idea of a new dawn, a new day, a new thing that is happening. Thus, while we should be always meditating on the new work of God in Christ, Easter Sunday is a special time of the year when ...
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