2023-04-09

Posted on Apr 8, 2023 in Bulletin |

It’s Not a Lie!

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Apr 12 @ 7pm – Choir Practice
    • Apr 15 @ 8am – Men’s Bible Study
    • May 6 – Life Line Screening
    • Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
  • Prelude (Choral Introit @ sunrise service)
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – UMH – 320 – Easter Vigil or Day
    • Almighty God, through Jesus Christ you overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life.
    • Grant that we, who celebrate the day of our Lord’s resurrection, may, by the renewing of your Spirit arise from the death of sin to the life of righteousness; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
    • Amen.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 302 – Christ the Lord Is Risen Today v 1-4
    • UMH 304 – Easter People, Raise Your Voices
    • UMH 322 – Up from the Grave He Arose
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • At The Cross (Love Ran Red) – © Countless Wonder Publishing
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “It’s Not a Lie!”
    • [Acts 13:26-35, 46-48 ESV]
    • 26 “Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
    • 27 For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
    • 28 And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.
    • 29 And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
    • 30 But God raised him from the dead,
    • 31 and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.
    • 32 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,
    • 33 this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’
    • 34 And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, “‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
    • 35 Therefore he says also in another psalm, “‘You will not let your Holy One see corruption.’
    • …
    • 46 And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
    • 47 For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.'”
    • 48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
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    • [1 Corinthians 15:1-7, 12-22 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.
    • …
    • 12 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
    • 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
    • 14 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
    • 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
    • 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.
    • 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
    • 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
    • 19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
    • 20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
    • 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
    • 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
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    • [Romans 5:6-10 ESV]
    • 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
    • 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person–though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die–
    • 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
    • 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
    • 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 310 – He Lives
  • Benediction
  • Postlude