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Easter is more than colored eggs, Easter baskets and bunnies, and dressing up for church on Easter Sunday.
Walk into almost any grocery store and go down the seasonal aisle.
If you look around, you’ll see chocolate rabbits, chocolate eggs and Peeps — lots of Peeps.

Easter is one of the most significant holidays in Christianity, marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the Sunday after his crucifixion and death on Good Friday.
According to Christian belief, Jesus’ death is seen as atonement for humanity’s sins and the promise of eternal life. His resurrection is considered a miracle and evidence of his divinity. To many Christians, the cross is a symbol of their faith.

Easter week, however, holds a deeply significant meaning for billions of believers worldwide. Yearly, Christians of distinct denominations will dedicate several days to honor the biblical story of Jesus Christ.
Holy Week unfolds for Christians with dates that vary from year to year. Nonetheless, the purpose for the days observed by the faithful remains unwavering for them. These holy days have been established for millennia as a lead-up to when Christ promised his followers redemption for their sins.

Holy Week is marked by Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday.
Dates vary yearly based on the lunar calendar. The week’s concluding day, Easter Sunday, lands on the first Sunday following the Paschal full moon. This full moon occurs on or after the spring equinox, whose 2025 astronomical date was March 20.

To believe that Jesus is God and man is to take Easter seriously.
The Bible’s New Testament narrates Holy Thursday as when Christ and his 13 disciples gather for the Last Supper, a final meal together before Christ is crucified. There, he transformed ordinary bread and wine into his own body, blood, soul and divinity, and he empowered his disciples and their recognized successors to do the same.
That is why Christians celebrate the Lord’s Supper today.

This week, many churches in the area celebrated with special Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services.
Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, where he was arrested.
The next day — the first Good Friday — the Roman government crucified Jesus because it feared that by claiming to be the Son of God, he might foment a political revolution. He did foment a revolution, but it was in the hearts and minds and souls of men and women.

Today, men still betray Jesus. They sell things much cheaper than 20 pieces of silver.
Taking Easter seriously recognizes that Jesus had the freedom to reject his horrific death, but he exercised his free will to accept it so that we might know the truth. The truth is that he — and we who have faith and hope and perform good works — would rise from the dead.

On Easter, Jesus rose from the dead. By doing that, he demonstrated to us that while living, we can liberate our souls from the slavery of sin because, after death, we of faith, hope and selfless good works can rise to be with him.
The day is also referred to as Resurrection Sunday.
Hopefully, this Easter Sunday Jesus will find his proper place in your life, and his death, burial and resurrection will become real to all.