2022-04-17

Posted on Apr 17, 2022 in Bulletin |

“I Am” Statements of Jesus – I Am The Resurrection

  • Prelude
  • Welcome | Announcements
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – UMH 888 – Affirmation from 1 Cor 15:1-6 & Col 1:15-20
    • This is the good news which we have received, in which we stand, and by which we are saved:
    • Christ died for our sins, was buried, was raised on the third day, and appeared first to the women, then to Peter and the Twelve. and then to many faithful witnesses.
    • We believe Jesus is the Christ, the Anointed One of God, the firstborn of all creation, the firstborn from the dead, in whom all things hold together, in whom the fullness of God was pleased to dwell by the power of the Spirit.
    • Christ is the head of the body, the church, and by the blood of the cross reconciles all things to God. Amen.
  • Reading – [Luke 24:1-15 ESV]
    • 1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.
    • 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
    • 3 but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.
    • 4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel.
    • 5 And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?
    • 6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,
    • 7 that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.”
    • 8 And they remembered his words,
    • 9 and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.
    • 10 Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles,
    • 11 but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.
    • 12 But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.
    • 13 That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,
    • 14 and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened.
    • 15 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 302 – Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
    • UMH 304 – Easter People, Raise Your Voices
    • UMH 310 – He Lives

  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • UMH 364 – Because He Lives
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Reading – [1 Corinthians 15:1-8 ESV]
    • 1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,
    • 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you–unless you believed in vain.
    • 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
    • 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
    • 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
    • 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
    • 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
    • 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
  • Sermon – “I Am The Resurrection” – John 11:17-27
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 322 – Up from the Grave He Arose
  • Benediction
  • Postlude