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Worship Booklet Sermon Sermon by Deacon Steve Seibert Now the green blade riseth from the buried grain, Wheat that in the dark earth many days has lain; Love lives again, that with the dead has been: Love is come again like wheat that springeth green. In the grave they laid him, Love whom hate had slain, Thinking that never he would wake again, Laid in the earth like grain that sleeps unseen Love is come again like wheat that springeth green. When it was evening on that day…what day? The day of Christ’s resurrection. We heard that glorious story last Sunday. Mary Magdalene finds the empty tomb; she runs to Simon Peter and (we are pretty sure) John. They run to the tomb. Peter sees the linen cloths that had been wrapped around Jesus, lying there. John sees the empty tomb and believes. For the first time they understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead. Jesus then appears to Mary, not to the two others; she comes to all of the disciples to give them the message, “I have seen the Lord!” She has just seen Christ who had been crucified. He is alive and has spoken to her! Video of service
Worship Booklet Sermon Sermon by Rev. Jerry LiaBraaten “All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women merely players.” So goes the first line from William Shakespeare’s play “As You Like It.” It’s from a monologue often referred to as The Seven Ages of Man in which Shakespeare briefly defines each of seven stages of a man from infant to elderly. It ends with these words “Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Video of service
Worship Booklet Sermon Sermon by Rev. Renee LiaBraaten My friends, we have gathered here in this holy place, on this holy night, to remember how Jesus spent his last night with his disciples. In our Gospel reading we heard these beautiful and tender words, “Having loved his own who were in the world, Jesus loved them to the end.” During the season of Lent, we have heard these words each Sunday during the communion liturgy, and we will hear them once again tonight as we prepare to receive the sacrament. |
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