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Scripture Reading: Acts 13:26-30 . Message Illustration: Recently, as I was out in a neighborhood taking our Resurrection Sunday seed packets door to door, I came across a young boy and his sister who were playing on the sidewalk outside their home. The young boy (who couldn’t have been any more than…

(S1) Mary Magdalene the first to experience the resurrection—Outside the empty tomb the risen Christ stood before FULLY ALIVE! Were her tear-soaked eyes playing tricks on her? The first April fool’s? “Teacher,” she calls him, yet we know he was to her so much more; the one who saved her. Jesus the one…

Matthew 28:1–6 (ESV) Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was…

Intro Easter Sunday What is today all about. Why do we gather? Jesus is resurrected from the dead. But what is the significance of this? What does this matter in today’s world? Have you found yourself in a place where your love for the Lord has perhaps waned. You are not as interested, not as fascinated…

The concentration camp at Dachau was liberated on a Sunday in April 1945. One week later, Greek and Serbian Orthodox prisoners celebrated Easter in the camp barracks. Priests wore makeshift vestments over their blue and white striped prison uniforms. They sang the liturgy, read the Scriptures, and even…

Key Quote : The resurrection is God’s dramatic way of saying to us: ‘This is what I’m like. This is what I’ve done. And this is what I’m going to do.’ —N.T. Wright Prayer: “Lord thank you for Easter Sunday. Thank you for giving your Son so that we may have eternal life and salvation. Revive us O Lord,…

The out-of-placeness and the feeling that something is not quite right about stay-at-home Easter 2020 might actually give us a closer glimpse of what that very first Easter Sunday was like.

The Symbol of the Cross Long before the cross was a symbol of Christianity it was a symbol for another group: the almighty power of Rome! Rome was the superpower of the day in the time of Jesus . And the cross was their favourite form of law enforcement for foreigners. It said to all who would challenge…

Introduction He has risen, he has risen indeed! This is the phrase we use each year, I wonder why we do not start each service with this. When I was in a ministry in Calgary, preaching every Sunday, I needed to supplement my income and God led me to become a tent maker. Not literally making tents, but…

Easter — He is risen! “Tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me” ( Matt 28.10 ) 40 days of coming and going from Easter to the Ascension Jesus meets the disciples in Galilee, on “the mountain to which [he] had directed them” ( Matt 28.16 ) 10 days from Easter to Pentecost When they saw…

Resurrection Sunday Mark 16:1-8 Introduction Where do you go after you die? Now this question was asked on the Melbourne Mums group. It’s a facebook group. Don’t worry, I’m not on it, but my wife Joy is. But it is a good question isn’t it? what do you say to a 5 year old that asks questions about death?…

Good morning! It’s always good to see you and be with you and sing with you, but especially on Easter. If we haven’t met before my name is Chris, I’m the pastor of Gateway Chapel, we’re a church on mission to plant churches and make disciples who hear, love, and obey Jesus. And a little something about…

Based on Hebrews 2:9-18. Jesus ws born with a purpose and humility. Together we learn why jesus became less than angels and what that means for the living of our lives.

Even from the time of Christ’s birth, there are those who anticipate resurrection; we can be people today who also live as those anticipating resurrection.

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…

It’s Easter and sometime people will say, how can you come up with a new Easter message every year. I mean it’s the same story… it doesn’t change. It’s kind of like all the different Titanic movies… in each one of them, the Titanic sinks. Easter is the same no matter how you tell the story but, I love…

It is Easter Sunday and a church member named Mary pulls into the church parking lot. There are a few cars already parked but most spaces are open. She remembers a time when you had to get to church extra early on Easter in order to find a parking space and this thought acts as a single cloud on an otherwise…

Welcome Good morning everyone and welcome once again. This morning we are going to begin a short break from the Gospel of John. For the next 4 weeks we are going to be looking at what Lent can and should mean for us since it begins this Wednesday. Which this is another reminder that we will have our…

Does it surprise you that those who knew Jesus best responded to the Good News from the Angel as they did? He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. If you had been there to witness the final week of Jesus’ life, when Jesus came in to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, Watch him cleanse…

In these next view moments what are you expecting? Do you believe that your life can be changed by what we are sharing together this day? How do you view the world ? This is a tricky question. The expectations of the world is probably what we will see. We must be careful that we do not tend to any extreme…

· So I really enjoyed walking through the book of Titus…having finished up last week. · I hope we heard and embraced its truth… · One of those truths being directed at the men of AFBC… · I hope that you heard the call - to Lead… · And what it takes to get there. · I hope we heard the call from LAST week…

We’re glad you’re here to worship with us this morning. As it worked out, we’re just going to continue on in our study through the book of Genesis on this Resurrection Morning, Easter morning. We started looking at the life of Abraham on the first Sunday of this year. The way it has played out, we’re…

Video Welcome and Good Morning. Thank you for joining us today. Isn’t it a great reminder to know that we are made and known by God. Think with me friend, you are not an accident. As the psalmist said, you are fearfully and wonderfully made. And as a Created being, you have purpose - and that purpose…

In his wonderful little book Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton asserts his own way into Christianity. At the end of chapter 6 he gives his readers a paradox: The real problem is—Can the lion lie down with the lamb and still retain his royal ferocity? We need both the lion and the lamb. We need the God that is…