Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

Since last Good Friday, death has touched so many lives—friends, family, strangers near and far. It’s a reminder that the wages of sin is death, and we all feel its sting. But tonight, we gather not in despair, but in hope. Because Jesus, the Unbroken Life, stepped into death to break it from the inside. He wasn’t a victim—He chose the cross to pay the full price of sin, once and for all. And when He said, “It is finished,” death was defeated. Now, even as we face the reality of our own mortality, we do so with confidence, knowing that life—not death—has the final word.