Sermon Tone Analysis

*WELCOME*

*         *April 10 – Bible Study

*         *April 12 – 4- 9 pm Papa Gino fund raiser

        April 17 – 7-9 pm   Diaconate Meeting

April 29 – 10:00 am worship at FBC, Swansea

May 5 – Fancy Feast

May 6  - Rev Dr Lilliana DaValle Installation service at Calvary Baptist, Providence

May 20 – First Baptist Church, Swansea worships with us

        May 27 – First Baptist in America, Providence worships with us

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*~*HYMN                                   *# 163                Christ the Lord is Risen Today

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*CALL TO WORSHIP                         *

/“Do not be alarmed.

You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified.

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*He has risen!

He is not here.

See the place where they laid him”* (Mark 16:6 NIV).

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~*HYMN OF PRAISE               #165                Christ Arose

               

*~*INVOCATION *Heavenly Father, we come with the women in the pre-dawn dark of the third day, to the tomb of Jesus.

We crest the hill and suddenly see the unbelievable: the stone is rolled away!

Like children set free we rush to the empty tomb and encounter the clear authority of the angel: "Why do you seek the Living One among the dead?

He is not here; no, He would not be here.

/He is risen from the dead!/" \\ Father, we feel again the excited ecstasy of the women that morning in Jerusalem so long ago.

We rejoice in the triumph of this Easter morning as Jesus, the Light of the World, rises again inside us.

O Jesus, fill our waiting hearts, calm our fearful minds, and gentle our restless souls.

Soften our hearts and send the rivers of Your joy bubbling up again from the wells of our thirsty spirits.

\\ Jesus, like Mary Magdalene we just want to cling to You this morning after the dark night of sorrow.

We want to be with You and never let You go! Release Your Spirit in us, that we might sing unashamedly the ancient Alleluia, and proclaim Your victory to all our brothers and sisters throughout the world, that You have broken the power of evil and death, and hold out to all people the gift of eternal life.

Amen! Alleluia!

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever.

Amen.

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*~*GLORIA PATRI *

 

*~*PSALM FOR TODAY*          *Psalm 118:1-2, 14-18, 24* /(NRSV)  /

1     /O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever!/

2     /Let //Israel// say/, *“His steadfast love endures forever.”*

14     *The Lord is my strength and my might; he has become my salvation.*

15     /There are glad songs of victory in the tents of the righteous:  “The right hand of the Lord does valiantly;/

16    * the right hand of the Lord is exalted; the right hand of the Lord does valiantly.”*

17     /I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord.

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*18**     The Lord has punished me severely, but he did not give me over to death.

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24     */This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

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*CHOIR    *

*SCRIPTURE READING                                                                                        Acts 10:34-43* /(NRSV) /*    *

34 Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, 35 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

36 You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all.

37 That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

39 We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem.

They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; 40 but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, 41 not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead.

43 All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

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*OFFERING TO GOD         *Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear.

nWith the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given.[1]

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*~*DOXOLOGY *     

   

*~*PRAYER OF DEDICATION           *As we make our offerings of tithes and gifts, we express thanksgiving for the happiness we know in life, for healthy bodies, peaceful homes, faithful friends, challenging purposes, and eternal motivations.

We pray that these blessings will abound to all the people in all the earth.

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*~*HYMN OF PRAYER          *# 177    Rejoice, the Lord is King

 

PASTORAL PRAYER /"Then little children were being brought to Jesus in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray."

Matthew 19:13/

*P*raise God for... those who have gone, and are still going, to help victims of natural disasters on the Gulf Coast.

*A*sk God for... wisdom and courage for churches having struggles with their pastor, and for pastors having struggles with their congregation.

May the desires of these churches be to exist for God’s glory and not their own agendas.

*T*hank God for… Rev. Dr. Bob Roberts, who works harder in retirement than many do prior.

His contributions to the ministry and mission of the American Baptist Churches has touched countless lives.

*H*ealing for... Steve, who has just had his 17th surgery and now has an infection that is resistant to antibiotics.

He needs not only to be well physically but also needs prayer help to keep his spirits up.

Blest are you, Lord Jesus, who came to us a little child—one of us, flesh and blood—to share in our humanity.

For God so loved the world [All]: That all might have eternal life.

Blest are you, Lord Jesus, who came to us as carpenter and yet in whose creative hands a world was fashioned.

For God so loved the world [All]: That all might have eternal life.

Blest are you, Lord Jesus, who came to us as fisherman and yet pointed to a harvest that was yet to come.

For God so loved the world [All]: That all might have eternal life.

Blest are you, Lord Jesus, who came to us as teacher and opened eyes to truths that only the poor could understand.

For God so loved the world [All]: That all might have eternal life.

Blest are you, Lord Jesus, who came to us as healer and opened hearts to the reality of wholeness.

For God so loved the world [All]: That all might have eternal life.

Blest are you, Lord Jesus, who came to us as prophet, priest, and king and yet humbled himself to take our place upon the cross.

For God so loved the world [All]: That all might have eternal life.

Blest are you, Lord Jesus, who came to us as servant and revealed to us the extent of our Father’s love for humankind.

For God so loved the world [All]: That all might have eternal life.

Blest are you, Lord Jesus, who rose from the shame of a sinner’s death to the triumph of a Savior’s Resurrection.

For God so loved the world [All]: That all might have eternal life.

God so loved the world that he gave his only Son for the sake of me and you and other sinners, too.

God so loved the world.

Blest are you, Lord Jesus, our Savior and Redeemer.—John

Birch

 

*~*HYMN OF PRAISE               *#  168      The Day of Resurrection

 

*SCRIPTURE TEXT     *Mark 16:1-8* */The Resurrection/

Saturday evening, when the Sabbath ended, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome went out and purchased burial spices so they could anoint Jesus’ body. 2 Very early on Sunday morning,  just at sunrise, they went to the tomb.

3 On the way they were asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?” 4 But as they arrived, they looked up and saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled aside.

5 When they entered the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a white robe sitting on the right side.

The women were shocked, 6 but the angel said, “Don’t be alarmed.

You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth,  who was crucified.

He isn’t here!

He is risen from the dead!

Look, this is where they laid his body.

7 Now go and tell his disciples, including Peter, that Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee.

You will see him there, just as he told you before he died.”