NOTES from the Desk of Rev. Richard Mueller
LWML WY District Junior Pastoral Counselor

Easter Message 4/20/2025

Jesus is Risen!
He is Risen indeed! Alleluia!

What great and joyous news we hear and have to share with our families and friends and all
those around us. Jesus Christ is risen indeed!

Jesus is risen! What does that mean to you? to your family? What does it mean for our community, for our world? Easter is more than just a day that we have an early sunrise service, Easter breakfast and family dinner. Easter is what it is all about. Easter is all about you and your sin. Easter is about Jesus dying on the cross and RISING from the dead to pay the price God demanded for your sin. Because Jesus died and ROSE from the dead, we know that our sins are forgiven, that they have been washed away, and that because of Jesus’s death and resurrection we have a place prepared for us in heaven and that we too will rise from the dead on the last day. What joyous news.

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What joyous and lifesaving news we have to share with one another. The problem I see is how do we share this message of Jesus’ work of salvation for us. How many of us actually share this joyous news?

That is the mission and ministry God has given to His church on earth. What is it that we are to
do with this resurrection news about Jesus rising from the dead?

We all have been called to be witnesses of Jesus Christ and to go and share the Good News that Jesus came to die on the cross and rise from the dead for our forgiveness, for our salvation. What a joyous and important message we have to share. But many people in our society do not want to hear this message we have to share. Many think that this message of sin is old stuff, we already know it all, so we better do something different. Some feel that we need to go along with what the other people are saying in our country and not follow what God’s Word says. God has called us to preach Christ crucified and risen, that is what is all about! That is what Easter is all about. That is what our mission and our ministry is all about! To share the gospel of Jesus Christ, not just with the members of our own congregation, but with our families and with our community, with all we come into contact.

What a mission field that surrounds us. A mission field that is hurting and lost without Christ. Without the assurance of forgiveness and life because of Jesus Christ. What a mission opportunity that is before us. Yes, we proclaim Jesus is risen! He is risen, indeed! Alleluia, on Easter Sunday, but this message is one that we are to shout every day that we live on this earth. For it is a message of hope and peace and comfort for us living in this sinful, broken world. A message that gives us peace, a peace that only Jesus can give us, as we look around and see all that is going on in this world. It may seem that Jesus is being pushed out of our world, but He is still here, risen and alive. We have the privilege to proclaim Jesus Christ and His forgiveness and salvation. We are called by God to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to our neighbors and to all corners of the world.

Please continue to pray for the mission and ministry of Lutheran Woman in Mission. Remember that you are part of the God’s mission wherever you are. That what Jesus came to do on the cross is for you and that because He rose from the dead, you too, will rise from the dead and live eternally with our Savior in heaven forever. Jesus is risen and alive! What great news to share.

Jesus is risen! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

Pastor Richard Mueller
Junior Pastoral Counselor, LWML Wyoming District

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(Click HERE to Read Rev Mueller's fall message - October, 2024)