Easter Comfort
While in the midst of not meeting together in our church building due to COVID-19, we encourage everyone to meet as families in their homes for a time of worship to the Lord (maybe spend time together through video chatting if you live alone). Below are Worshiping Together Options with their corresponding resources and the Scripture used for this week's message/sermon.
Worshiping Together Options:
Please note that when using the YouTube playlists you can pause and go to the next video with the controls on YouTube. The playlist will go to the next video by default on most browsers.
Option 1: Order of Worship
Explanation of Order of Worship: Worship together by going through each of the elements as we do on a Sunday morning using the YouTube Playlist linked below. The Order of Worship PDF is available for reference to follow along, as well.
Option 2: Focused / Songs & Sermon
Explanation of Focused: have time in worship with songs, the sermon, and prayer. The YouTube Playlist below includes songs and the sermon (feel free to use your own worship songs).
Option 3: Sermon Only
Explanation of Sermon Only: simply listen to the sermon.
Luke 24:1-12 (ESV) - The Resurrection
24 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.
2 Corinthians 3:1-11 (ESV) - Ministers of the New Covenant
3 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our[a] hearts, to be known and read by all. 3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
7 Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? 9 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory. 10 Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it. 11 For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.
Sermon Topics: 2 Corinthians,comfort,Easter,Easter Comfort,Luke