Easter Message 2026

We really do have good news this Easter!

A lot of people in Australia are feeling a bit lost at the moment - life is busy and full, but somehow still missing something. Even Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg once said, “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” And many people today quietly feel exactly that - like there should be more to life than what we see on the surface.

It’s a bit like those early archaeologists who stared at Egyptian hieroglyphs, knowing they meant something important but having no way to understand them. Everything changed in 1799 when the Rosetta Stone was discovered — suddenly the symbols made sense.

Easter gives us something like that too.

More and more people are rediscovering that the death and resurrection of Jesus is the key that helps make sense of life. When we look honestly at that moment in history - an event with strong historical grounding - things start to come together: who God is, why we matter, why other people matter, why we long for purpose, how we walk through suffering, how we work, how we love, and what we hope for.

And beyond meaning, Easter shows us love; real, personal, transforming love. This isn’t just an “interesting idea” to reflect on. It’s something we can receive. Something that reshapes us from the inside out as we realise God’s love is not distant or theoretical, but deeply personal.

Easter is a time for reflection but also a time to receive and to celebrate.

The apostle Paul captures this so beautifully when he writes:

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all… And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again… Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:14–18, 20–21

What a gift — new beginnings, deep meaning, and love that changes everything.

Rev Mark Wilson

National Ministries Director