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If you're looking to celebrate Easter in a way that makes more sense, this may be the place for you - we welcome people of many beliefs. See a description for this year's service with links to more information and some past Easter sermons and stories below. Please join us at 10:30 AM in Camp Springs, Maryland (directions).

March 23, 2008 - YOU WERE MADE TO BE REBORN (Mithraism) - Rev. John Crestwell has begun working on his first secular book titled: You Were Made For So Much More! It will be a secular book with spiritual teachings from the world's religions - secular and yet spiritual (if that makes sense). This is the fifth in a series to get him started and will focus on Mithraism. There will be special activities for the children, including an Easter egg hunt. The CHOIR will sing.

In 2007, the sermon was GNOSIS (audio) - Was the story of Jesus's resurrection about a great sacrifice for all human beings? What do the egg and the bunny represent? We explored the history, metaphor, and miracle of Easter.

The sermon from 2006 was OH DEATH, WHERE THEN IS THY STING? - On Easter Sunday, it is an appropriate time to discuss the common denominator of us all--death. Are you afraid to die? Is it suffering that bothers you most? Is it possible to lose your fear of dying? (listen to it)

ARE YOU REBORN? - Easter, 2005
Many people don't think about what this means.  They simply say, "It's Easter.  Let us put on some fine clothing and go to church at least one time this year."  Others go to church and hear very moving cantatas and hymns and gospel songs about a story of life, death, and resurrection.  It is a moving story indeed!  But do we think about what it means beyond the literalism?

EASTER STORY - Easter, 2000
Story for All Ages told by our Director of Religious Education with participation by the entire congregation.

THE ESSENCE OF JESUS - Feb., 2004
There have been several perspectives that have emerged, over the ages, regarding the authenticity of Jesus' life and ministry.... And so, then and now, we still wrestle with the question who was Jesus and is this story of any significance to us today?

TRANSCENDENTAL TRILOGY - Jan., 2005
The Trinity, the flag in the church, the practice of Christmas and Easter, 'those pagan holidays,' they would say; the teachings of Christ's divinity as God, all of this was incorrect and unscriptural - not found in the Bible.... Jefferson had created the Jeffersonian Bible where he pulled out the miracles, the supernatural and looked at the works of Jesus only seeing him as the great ethical teacher and moral example for humanity.  The transcendentalists went even further: truth is beyond the literal!

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