Object: the church building.

Happy Easter, everybody! What a great day to come to church! This is an exciting day for us because today we celebrate God's power. Today we remember how Jesus did not stay dead. Instead, he knocked the devil flat and came roaring back, alive and well again. Isn't that exciting?

There are a lot of things around the church that can remind us of how God gave Jesus his life back again on Easter. Can you think of any of them? (Talk about it. Let the children, volunteer some answers.) The Easter lilies in church can remind us of this. Remember how Easter lilies start out? They look like little footballs, or little caskets you can bury in the ground. And new life comes roaring up out of them when they are planted in the gro…