A Reflection Before the Service: April 23, 2023 "It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that he had risen from the dead was not the absence of his corpse but his living presence. And so it has been ever since." —Frederick Buechner, The Faces of Jesus: A Life Story
"Paul is the classic example of the early Christian who has woven resurrection so thoroughly into his thinking and practice that if you take it away the whole thing unravels in your hands." — N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Easter
"God's time is neither progressive nor static. Paradoxically, it is both. God's time mediates the fullness of God's kingdom in-the-now and yet contains within it the knowledge that the fullness of that kingdom is still to come. " — John Swinton, Becoming Friends of Time
The Call to Worship: Inspired by Luke 24:13-33 The risen Lord comes alongside us this morning. He speaks the truth of Scripture into our waxing and waning hearts. He blesses us with his presence on our pilgrim journey through life's often difficult way. Let us worship him with our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
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