Pointers for Easter Sunday

You have probably started thinking about your Easter sermon. I have a few ideas to add to the ones you already have:

• Preach the resurrection. Is this a no-brainer? Apparently some preachers haven't heard.
• Keep it simple. The temptation is to want to do a year's worth of preaching to those who won't be back. If you do, they won't. Count on it.
• Preach in your style. You want to give first timers a sample of what they can expect if they return.
• Preach with a warm heart in the power of the Holy Spirit, but don't get worked up into a frenzy. Be real.
• Cast a net and draw it in in an appropriate manner, but don't expect to cluster all your results into one Sunday. There will be a great deal of seed-planting.

Add that to a lot of other advice that you could give yourself and have a blessed Resurrection Sunday.