“This is a different Easter message. I’ve shared Easter messages from Jerusalem some years ago, and I have shared Easter and Christmas messages from a variety of locations. Last year for Christmas, we were in San Diego. Today I’m in Paris, part of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe. We just finished a revival—over 50 young people and some 300-400 people from all over Europe who came for this revival service. It was a remarkable thing to behold and be part of…
…Thinking about it—I realize not only with this view—but with the reality of Easter looming on our horizon, John’s Gospel opens: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’ Then there is a point in which it says, of Christ coming into the world, ‘The light shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it.’…”