Our church
choir that I direct is preparing an Easter Cantata for this Sunday
morning. It is called “Jesus, Messiah,” and it’s full of powerful songs
that clearly present the gospel. Please pray with us that God will use it
to His glory and to bring people closer to Him. We’ve used accompaniment
CDs in the past, but since we have such an amazing piano player now (Ella),
she’s doing all the accompanying. She says the piano parts as written are
kind of dull, but she’s doing some “spicing up” to make it more interesting for
her. All I know is that it has sounded good in rehearsal!
I think I’ve
mentioned before that as part of the Civil Air Patrol that Zach and I are in,
he gets to do what they call “o-flights”, or orientation flights. This
past Saturday was his latest one, but before he went up in the real plane, he
got to use a very realistic flight simulator at the airport. It’s called
a “Red Bird” and is a little cabin where he sits with a pilot who instructs him
on what to do and how to fly it. The cabin itself moves with your
movements, and the screens look a lot like real windows in a plane. He
said it was really cool.
For the past
few years, my family and I have had a sort of Seder (part of the Jewish
Passover celebration) dinner during the week before Easter. I saw an
article a few years back in a Focus on the Family magazine, and I really like
the meaning of the dinner—especially as it showed how Jesus fulfilled the Old
Testament Messianic prophecies. We did it again last night, and Ella and
Cody joined us for the dinner. Krista did an amazing job on the
food—everything was so delicious: baked chicken, roasted potatoes,
carrots, and wonderful chocolate torte for dessert. I thought the article
I used might be archived online somewhere, but I couldn’t find it when I looked
just now. I did find several similar articles by Googling “Christian
Seder” however, in case anyone wants to look up ways to do it.
Talk to you
in May!
