Learning for Life: Resumes April 7th
JOIN our Worship Service: 11:00 am
Listen to the sermon: Joel Russell-MacLean
Watch the recent Worship Service
“He is Risen”
Easter Sunday
Bulletin: March 31 – Easter 2024
Scriptures: Romans 6:3-11; Psalm 118; Mark 16
Songs:
- Christ Arose (lyrics & melody, video, contemporary, acappella, background, meditation)
- Christ is Risen (Gettys) (lyrics, melody & video, w lyrics, based on the Paschal Greeting)
- Christ the Lord Is Risen Today (lyrics, melody, history, author, video, contemporary, 2, background, meditation)
- Thine is the Glory (lyrics & melody, video, congregation, a cappella, background, meditation)
- The Hallelujah Chorus (FBC Choir and Congregation) (Video – choir & orchestra, w lyrics, gospel version, flashmob – 50M views, silent monks – 20M views, background, 2, 3)
Joel Russell-MacLean
Jesus is alive! 
Jesus died and was buried. Then on the third day, unexpectedly, shockingly, confusingly, terrifyingly, bewilderingly, wonderfully, he rose from the dead!
Jesus’ friends saw him, touched him, and ate with him.
What does this mean?
Jesus’ resurrection is about looking toward new bodies in a new world with Jesus who is alive – a “life after, life after death.”
Jesus’ life, death and resurrection is about living right now
This isn’t just good news about the future. The good news isn’t all about ‘going to heaven.’
The resurrection exposes the direct connection between this world and the world that is coming. Our world and our bodies are not disposed of—just the opposite! God will renew our bodies and renew creation: this is the re-creation of sin-scarred life and the restoration of all that’s been lost. Life isn’t all pointless. What happens here on Earth matters.
This Sunday, we will celebrate as three people follow Jesus in baptism. They will be,”baptized into his death, so that they might be raised to life with him also.”
“Christians Wrong about Heaven“, An interview with Tom Wright
Death Be Not Proud by John Donne