Services this week
Dear friends,
This Sunday we will recount the Resurrection and participate in the Lord’s Supper. The Resurrection is the proof that what we remember of the sacrifice of Christ for us is true and valid. The proofs of the resurrection are sure, its effects are plain, and the hope it gurantees gives us inner joy even in the middle of loss. Please read Isaiah 53, John 20:1-9 and 1 Corinthians 15 in preparation for Sunday.
The Gospel accounts of the Cross saying are found in all four Gospels, and I ask you to read these over carefully. Pray that the Lord will grant us a thoughtful and reflective remembering of what He has done for us.
Friday night service begins at 7PM.
If you need child care please let me know and it will be provided.
Lee
THE FIRST WORD Luke 23:33-34
When they came to the place called “The Skull”, they nailed
Jesus to the cross there, and the two criminals, one on his
right and one on his left. Jesus said “Forgive them, Father!
They do not know what they are doing.”
THE SECOND WORD Luke 23:39-43
One of the criminals hanging there threw insults at him:
“Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” The other
one, however, rebuked him, saying: “Don’t you fear God? Here
we are all under the same sentence. Ours, however, is only
right, for we are getting what we deserve for what we did;
but he has done no wrong.” And he said to Jesus, “Remember
me, Jesus, when you come as King!” Jesus said to him, “I
tell you this: Today you will be in Paradise with me.”
THE THIRD WORD John 19:25-27
Standing close to Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s
sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. Jesus
saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing there; so
he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” Then he
said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that
time the disciple took her to live in his home.
THE FOURTH WORD Mark 15:33-34
And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over
the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour
Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Elo-i, elo-i, lama
sabach-thani?” which means, “My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me?”
THE FIFTH WORD John 19:28
After this Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said
(to fulfil the scripture), “I thirst.”
THE SIXTH WORD John 19:29-30
A bowl was there, full of cheap wine mixed with vinegar, so
a sponge was soaked in it, put on stlk of hyssop and lifted
up to his lips. When Jesus had received the wine, he said,
“It is finished”;
THE SEVENTH WORD Luke 23:46
Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into
thy hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he
breathed his last.
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