Focusing on the real reason for Easter – Christ is risen!

We’re beginning the Easter Season, the most holy season for Christians. And, like Christmas, we can miss the season through all of the various images and symbols marketed, enticing us to make huge purchases for Easter. Our attention will shift from the empty tomb to an

by REV. DR. BILLY T. LOWE Pastor – First Presbyterian Church of Cherryville, NC

empty pocketbook if we don’t watch out.

What are we Christians to do?

This has caused me to do some research on how all of these images and symbols have come about.

I was surprised.

Take Easter eggs –

From ancient times colored eggs have represented new life; as in the fresh colors of spring. Early Christians adopted the egg as an Easter symbol because of the relationship between Easter and the renewal of