Resurrection Sunday

Easter time is here. One of the most important Christian holidays after Christmas, Easter is celebrated world around. There has been a move in Christian circles to celebrate Resurrection Sunday as opposed to Easter due to history of Easter's origins.

Resurrection Sunday Activities

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"He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.
Come, see the place where the Lord lay."
~Matthew 28:6~

He is not dead.....He is ALIVE!!!! This year am trying to encourage people to celebrate "Resurrection Sunday" instead of Easter. When you greet people consider saying: Happy Resurrection Sunday instead of the standard Happy Easter. By changing our focus from Easter to the Resurrection you will need some new and different ideas other then just the old standard candy and bunnies.

This Sunrise Service concept is a great activity for families to begin and continue as a Family Tradition. The Resurrection Eggs add a visual reminder of the Crucifixion and Resurrection.

 

 Things To Do Ahead of Time

Choose a special, quiet place from which the sunrise can be seen.
Prepare a simple, carry-along breakfast of boiled eggs, rolls, juice, etc. (If you like, each person's breakfast could be packed in a colorful Easter basket. Surprises could be hidden in the bottom of each basket.)
Find and mark the Easter story in the Bible.
Choose one of two songs the whole family can sing about the risen Lord, or take along a cassette player or CD player and taped music the family can sing along with.
The week before Easter, read from a Bible story book or from the Bible the events leading up to the Resurrection (Matthew 26,27) and discuss them.
The night before Easter, talk about how the disciples must have felt on the saturday night before the Resurrection; how Jesus' mother must have felt; what Mary Magdalene and those who had known Jesus were feeling.

Tell the Easter Story with Resurrection Eggs

You will need:

* 1 dozen plastic Easter eggs

* 1 egg carton

* construction paper

* items listed in parenthesis below
* Permanent Marker

Decorate the top of the carton with construction paper and any other decoration that seems fitting.

Fill each egg with the item listed in parenthesis below, along with a piece of paper containing the listed verse. For example the first egg will have a piece of bread along with verse #1 that you see accompanying the bread below. Number the eggs so you know the correct order of your story.

Once you have made the Resurrection Eggs, you can decide the method you want to use to open them. You might open one per day during the twelve days before Easter or if you're having a big family get-together, you may choose to open them then. It is also fun for the kids to do this the day you decorate Easter eggs with them.

1. (Bread) Matthew 26:26
While they were eating Jesus took a piece of bread,
gave a prayer of thanks, broke it, and gave it to His disciples.
"Take and eat it," He said, "This is My body."

2. (Coins) Matthew 26: 14-15
Then one of the twelve disciples, named Judas Iscariot, went to
the chief priests and asked, "What will you give me if I betray
Jesus to you?" They counted out thirty silver coins and gave
them to him.

3. (Purple cloth, representing a purple robe) Mark 15:17
They put a purple robe on Jesus. . .

4. (Thorns, like on a rose stem) Matthew 27:29
Then they made a crown out of thorny branches and placed it on
His head, and put a stick on His right hand; then they knelt
before Him and made fun of Him. "Long live the King, of the
Jews!" they said.

5. (Scourge-a small piece of rope or thick string) Mark 15:15
Pilate wanted to please the crowd, so he set Barabbas free for
them. Then he had Jesus whipped and handed Him over to be
crucified.

6. (A small cross) John 19: 17-18a
He went out, carrying His cross, and came to "The Place of the
Skull," as it is called. (In Hebrew it is called "Galgotha.") There
they crucified Him.

7. (Nails) John 20:25b
Thomas said to them, "Unless I see the scars of the nails in His
hands and put my finger on those scars and my hand in His
side, I will not believe."

8. (Sign saying "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.") Luke 23:38
Above Him were written these words: THIS IS THE KING OF
THE JEWS.

9. (Small piece of sponge) Matthew 27:48
One of them ran up at once, took a sponge, soaked it in cheap
wine, put it on the end of a stick, and tried to make Him drink it.

10. (Something representing a spear (i.e. a toothpick)) John 19:34
One of the soldiers plunged his spear into Jesus' side, and at
once blood and water poured out.

11. (Rock) Matthew 27:59-60
Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a new linen sheet, and
placed it in his own new tomb, which he had just recently dug
out of solid rock. Then he rolled a large stone across the
entrance to the tomb and went away.

12. (Empty) Matthew 28:6
He is not here He has risen just as He said.

 

 

Things to do on Easter Morning

Rise early enough to give the family time to get to your special place just before the sun comes up.
Wear clothes that can be gotten into quickly (you can get ready for church later). Take warm jackets and blankets.
Spread a blanket to sit on; then read together about the women going to Jesus' tomb and what they experienced.
As the sun comes peeping over the horizon, sing or play a victorious song.
Then thank God with your eyes wide open for the Resurrection and what it means to; your family.
Celebrate by sharing the simple breakfast you have brought with you.

 

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