Easter is the greatest show on Earth.
At Church on the Corner we will be entering into the drama of the story,
from the Last Supper through Good Friday, to the new dawn of Easter Sunday. Join us.

The Last Supper, Maundy Thursday, 7.45 All Saints Church
On Good Friday at 7.45pm we will hold our traditional Service of Shadows at COTC.
On Easter Saturday at 7pm we will be joining the Easter Liturgy at St Paul’s Cathedral
Then Easter Sunday 9am & 10.30 Services at St Andrew’s Church.

There will be no evening service at COTC on Easter Sunday

If felt to me that Easter brought together all the themes we have been exploring over the last few months, themes like Kingdom, justice, restoration & creation. On Sunday morning we reflected on the resurrection account in Luke, and also this wonderful image by Stanley Spencer (click for a very large version). He imagines the resurrection in his own village church yard at Cookham in Berkshire, a new easter morning with creation and humanity restored together.

Easter is our declaration of the hope that God has not given up, that life matters, and it will endure into eternity, in the midst of a bleak and suffering world. This is what we proclaim.

UPDATE
Matt Wall was preaching at the remembrance service this morning and he referred to another Spencer Resurrection painting, commissioned in the aftermath of the First World War, and drawing on Spencer’s own experience as a medical orderly in Macedonia. It is called ‘The resurrection of the Soldiers’.