Sermon from Easter Sunday ,April 20, 2014. Filmed live on location at Trinity Metropolitan Community Church located at 11604 SW Archer Rd, Gainesville, Florida 32608. For more information please, visit the church's website at www,mccgainesville.org or our Facebook page at Trinity MCC Gainesville. Follow us on Twitter: @Trinitymccgnv #gaychurchgainesville Rev. Dr. Jim Merritt's sermon is based on the following scripture readings: The Wisdom of Rabindranath Tagore: "Every morning the day is reborn among the newly blossomed flowers with the same message retold and the same assurance renewed that death eternally dies, that the waves of turmoil are on the surface, and that the sea of tranquility is fathomless." The Wisdom of Max A. Coots: "We need a celebration that speaks the Spring-inspired word about life and death, about us as we live and die, through all the cycling seasons, days, and years. We need the sense of deity to crack our own hard, brown, December husks and push life out of inner tombs and outer pain. Unless we move the seasons of the self, and Spring can come for us, the Winter will go on and on." Matthew 28.1-11 (NIV): After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel...came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like [corpses]. The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen...Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: "He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him. Now I have told you." So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my [the others] to go to Galilee; there they will see me."
