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Worship and Sermon
Resources for Easter Sunday
and Holy Week
Download the printable bulletin cover free
Free
full-text sermon: "I Will Rise"
with PowerPoint Presentation (see below)
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Holy Week / Easter Video Downloads
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Easter Affirmation and Confession of Faith (based on 1 Cor
15 & Col 1)
Leader:
this is the good news which we have received,
in which we stand,
and by which we are saved:
People:
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.
All:
We believe in Jesus the Christ,
the Anointed One of God,
the firstborn of all creation,
the firstborn from the dead,
in whom all thinks 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.
Kids' Sermon
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Sermon: I will Rise, Again and Again!
  
based on John 20:
1-18
and Luke 24:45-47
by Rev. Frank Schaefer
I want to begin my Easter message with a quote that may seem odd
for such a big occasion; It is a quote from
Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal who describes a roadside trash dump
just down-the-road from a monastery:
“Behind the monastery, down by the road,
there is a cemetery of wore- out things
there lie smashed china, rusty metal,
cracked pipes and rusty bits of wire, . . .
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Point Me Toward
Tomorrow, Mark
16:1-8
By
Dr. David Rogne
Sermon Excerpt:
In
the Gospel according to Mark, which was read earlier, we heard how three women
came to a grave to do what people have traditionally done for the dead, but they
couldn't even find the body. Instead, they heard the words, "He has been
raised; he is not here." Truly, something significant had happened for
Jesus, but what is the message this event has for us.
The first thing
this Easter narrative says to me is that life is filled with temptations to hold
on to the past. When those women came to the tomb, it was out of respect for a
remembered life. There had been no time to render the last service to the body
of Jesus. The Sabbath had intervened, and the women, who wished to anoint the
body, had not been able to do so. Now the Sabbath had passed, and as early as
possible, they set out to accomplish their sad task. They had heard Jesus
preach and teach, they had witnessed his acts of compassion, they had thought
that he was to become the Messiah. Then they had witnessed his cruel death and
burial. Their minds were occupied with thoughts of what might have been. As
long as their attention was focused on the past, their gloom was unrelieved. And
hasn't that been our experience too? .....[
full manuscript ]
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