I want to thank all who contributed the Easter lilies and flowers in memory of a loved one this Easter Day. And thank you, whoever you are for coming. Every Sunday morning at this hour we have about 100,000 people living in Southern California who decide not to drive here to the Cathedral, but they watch the entire hour on television. So, whoever you are, from our local television audience seated here under this glass ceiling or if you re one of the tens of millions who have joined us on television in over 200 countries today we are all family. Bruce Larson, one of our retired pastors and a dear friend of mine, visited with me by telephone this week as I wished him Happy Easter.
Faith is a call to action, to live differently.
The church is a family of believers who come together to exercise our faith and strengthen it against cynical and sinister temptations. Yes, truth is a Person and we come together today on Easter morning to celebrate that Person , whose name is Jesus . In Spain there is a mountain that rises from the bottom of the ocean 1,500 feet above the surface, called the Rock of Gibraltar. Then Columbus discovered that the world didn t stop there and Spain removed the letter ne. Instantly they became believers.