Object: A jar with a vacuum seal that is very difficult to open.

Good morning, boys and girls. A happy Easter to you! Isn’t Easter great? I just love the story of Easter because it is so real. Do you remember it? [Let them answer.] Do you remember the part about the people who loved Jesus who were going up to the tomb where Jesus was buried and how sad they felt? I remember that. I think if I had been one of those people I would have had tears in my eyes as I thought about how good Jesus had been to me and the wonderful things that he had done for other people. While they were walking they kept thinking about that big stone that was put in front of the tomb so that no one except the people who were supposed to be there could ever get in. This was not a little stone, but one so big that it…