Easter Mission Possible

18/04/2022 32 min

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Episode Synopsis

Scripture Readings
Karen Bart
Old Testament:  Jeremiah 31:1-6  (Link to text:https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=516375488)
New Testament: John 20:1-18 (Link to text:  https://bible.oremus.org/?ql=516375516)
Sermon
Easter Mission Possible
Focus:  I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.
Response:  Christ Has Risen While Earth Slumbers
Bell & Maule/Welsh melody
Lisa Phillips
Christ has risen while earth slumbers; Christ has risen where hope died,
As he said and as he promised, as we doubted and denied.
Let the moon embrace the blessing; let the sun sustain the cheer;
Let the world confirm the rumor: Christ is risen, God is here!
Christ has risen for the people whom he died to love and save;
Christ has risen for the women bringing flowers to grace his grave.
Christ has risen for disciples huddled in an upstairs room.
He whose word inspired creation can’t be silenced by the tomb.
Christ has risen and forever lives to challenge and to change
All whose lives are messed or mangled, all who find religion strange.
Christ is risen, Christ is present making us what he has been:
Evidence of transformation in which God is known and seen.

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