But luckily, the parts of the show that can't be replaced - the black volcanic sand from Hawaii, the overhead camera, the music and colored light show on his iPod - were safely with Castillo in a carry-on.

"I figured if I can bring the technical stuff, the sand and the camera with me, I can get glass anywhere," he said.

And when the show started at Easthaven at 6:30 p.m., Castillo was ready to go with a light table that had been "MacGyver-ed" together in about an hour and 20 minutes by church members.

Castillo used the story of the lost luggage to illustrate part of his point as he spoke before his presentation. He told the congregation that every person has their own life story, and that God is the only one who can control the path a life takes.

"Every life has a story, and here's the problem," he said. "A lot of times they don't seem to make sense, and all of a sudden your heart's broken, and you're thinking, 'This is not part of my story. Why does my story take this turn?'"

Even Jesus' life had turns He wished it didn't take, Castillo said, pointing out the night in the Garden of Gethsemane when Jesus told the Lord, "If you are willing, let this cup pass from me, but not my will but Thine be done."

And each person's individual tale is just a part of a bigger picture, Castillo said.

"Whatever story is being told in your life, if you place that within God's story, which starts at time's beginning and goes on forever, all of a sudden the things you can't figure out that just begin to make sense," he said. "He may not give you all the answers and that certainly doesn't mean you won't have problems, but you might start to see where you fit."

The rest of Castillo's "Passion of Christ" presentation was projected on the multimedia screens, as he drew scenes from the life of Jesus in the sand and it was backlit with colored lights that changed with the music, which among other things, lit the scene of Golgotha in a blood red color.

And with Easter approaching, Pastor Eric Brown pointed out that it's hard to tell the story of what went on in the life of Christ during the week between Palm Sunday and Easter, but Castillo had done it in a way that didn't even require words.

"The hardest thing we struggle with as Christians is understanding what took place this week," he said. "But these hands have told you the story of the greatest thing that ever took place on this earth. That's God using him as an instrument to tell you that He came here to set you free from the things you can't control."

Castillo was the final guest speaker in Easthaven's five-week "People Get Ready" series that brought national speakers to the church every Monday leading up to Easter.