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APRIL 17, 2026            
 
DOES LIFE REALLY HAVE MEANING?
 
Dear Snyder's Church Family and Friends,
 
This coming Sunday we continue our Easter Journey
as we read St. Luke 24: 13 - 35
and the sermon title is "We're Going To Emmaus!"
We shall sing "He Is Lord"; "Stand Up For Jesus";
"Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus" and other music selected for the Service. Jeff will share in the Children's Moment and we shall rejoice in the fact that He Is Risen Indeed! Plan to be with us.
 
The story is told of Lucy of the Peanuts cartoon fame, pictured with an air of discouragement, and she questions "Do you think that life has any meaning when you have failed nine spelling tests in a row, and your teacher hates you?"
 
While most likely for different reasons, I rather suspect that most of us gathered for church for worship will have experienced our own times of despair, a time when it feels as if all of life is falling in upon us. Each of us has known times of anguish and despair, times when we have felt all alone, times of confusion and pain.
 
John Wesley spoke of his experience of encountering the grace of God firsthand as a time when his heart was strangely warmed. Burning hearts, hearts strangely warmed - are these not indications of an Easter power and presence within us, the gift of the risen Christ's Spirit? Burning hearts, hearts strangely warmed, are hearts ablaze with the promise of resurrection and new life, with the good news that fear and death do not have the final word, that love is stronger than hatred, that peace is indeed a possibility.
 
Plan to worship with us this week.
Have a truly blessed day and may you truly be a blessing to others. Know that God loves you and so do we. 
Pastor Bill