Easter Sunday Worship Service

On Easter Sunday, Pastor Russell Johnson explored Hebrews 10:10-14 through the powerful imagery of "3 Chairs"—asking the question that matters most: "Do you have a chair?" Pastor Russell opened with a humorous story about his mom and aunt getting in trouble at a nursing home over someone's chair, then pivoted to the profound truth that sitting down represents finished work. He walked through the Old Testament priests who had no chair because "their work was never complete"—standing daily, offering repeatedly, the same sacrifices that "can never take away sins." Pastor Russell connected this to the Ezra-Nehemiah series, showing how those books end with spiritual work still "unfinished" and pointing forward to someone who would complete it. Then Jesus showed up! Pastor Russell declared that Christ "offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins" and "sat down at the right hand of God"—the place of highest honor, authority, and approval. The stunning conclusion from Ephesians 2:4-6 is that because Jesus sat down, we get a chair too: "Seated us WITH HIM. Not someday. Not after you perform well enough. Right now!" Pastor Russell invited everyone to stop striving and rest in the finished work of Christ.