First person: After the Easter Instagram posts | The Alabama Baptist

I’ve been encouraged recently by all the posts about Easter on social media. I love the family photos. I love watching children hunt eggs. I love seeing families come together for meals. But most importantly, I love the truth behind this special day on the calendar. Believers and skeptics alike gathering to celebrate and consider the resurrection of Christ is always healthy and inspiring from my perspective. Both the Bible and the great hymns of the Christian faith seem to come alive on a day set aside to remember that though He was dead, Jesus Christ of Nazareth is now very much alive.  But now what?  Sign up for our weekly Highlights email here. To receive more news at your doorstep, subscribe to The Alabama Baptist today! As we move toward summer, what bearing, if any, will the Easter reality have on our lives? Faithful Christians will rightly say that every Sunday is a resurrection celebration. Some traditions that follow a strict liturgical calendar will even observe fifty days of Eastertide emphases.   The Easter difference What I am asking, though, is what difference will it make in our lives? Is Easter merely a photo op to capture an annual moment for Instagram? Is
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