Easter at Crossroads

On Easter Sunday, Pastor Jeremiah opened not with triumph but with a story of ignored warnings — the Titanic, which received multiple urgent alerts about icebergs in its path and dismissed every one of them, not for lack of information but because of the arrogance of believing the warnings didn't apply. Drawing from Mark 7:20–23, Romans 3:23–25, and Isaiah 53:3–6, he made the case that Easter isn't a sweet religious holiday to be observed once a year — it's a message that demands a response. The message closed with the true story of John Harper, a pastor aboard the Titanic who gave away his life jacket to an unsaved young man, spending his last minutes in the freezing Atlantic leading people to Christ — his final words: "Believe on the name of the Lord Jesus and you will be saved." Not responding to Easter, he closed, is itself a response.