Sunday LinkUp

WELCOME and THANKS for joining us. OPENING COMMENTS Today is the Fifth Sunday of the Easter season. The theme for this week is newness of life. We have two Bible readings today … In our first reading … part of which our first message will be based on … is from the Book of Acts […]

      OPENING COMMENTS Today is May 11, 2025 … the second Sunday in May … which means it’s Mother’s Day … So … HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all our mothers. Today is also the Fourth Sunday of Easter (that season when the Christian Worship Calendar helps us to focus a little bit more on

  OPENING COMMENTS Today is May 4, 2025. This year, it is the Third Sunday of Easter. The theme for this week is saved for worship. OPENING SONG   OPENING PRAYER     FIRST MESSAGE There is no shortage of examples, today and in history, of individuals using their influence and power to control and

WELCOME and THANKS   OPENING COMMENTS Today is the Second Sunday of Easter. The theme for this week is faithful witness. Our reading from Revelation introduces Jesus as the central character “who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.”   OPENING SONG    

  OPENING SONG   OPENING PRAYER   FIRST MESSAGE Easter Sunday—The Joy of His Salvation Voiceover by: Mike Rasmussen – Surrey Hills, Oklahoma, US From the transcript … The darkness of the tomb has been shattered. The silence of death has been broken by the triumphant cry, “He is risen!” On this glorious Easter morning,

CALL TO WORSHIP   OPENING COMMENTS Today is the sixth Sunday of Lent (Easter Preparation).  It is also referred to as Palm Sunday, the day we use to remember Jesus entering Jerusalem at the beginning of the week in which He died. Luke 19:28-40 28 When He had said this, He went on ahead, going up

CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING COMMENTS Today is the Fifth Sunday of Easter Preparation. FYI … Easter Sunday, this year, is April 20 … Palm Sunday is April April 13. The theme this week is God’s redemptive work. In our call to worship psalm, Psalm 126:1–6, the psalmist declares that God has restored the fortunes to

CALL TO WORSHIP OPENING COMMENTS Today is the Fourth Sunday in Easter Preparation. The theme for today and this week is reconciliation, and our readings have a lot to say about what we consume, what consumes us, and how we see the world. Psalm 32:1-11 tells us what the fruits of a relationship with the Lord

  OPENING COMMENTS Today is the third Sunday of Easter Prep … and we continue to remind ourselves of our constant need for repentance and change. That said, we remind ourselves that … regardless of our progress or slip-ups, we can count on God’s mercy and patience … because God is good all the time

CALL TO WORSHIP   OPENING COMMENTS We continue our contemplation and reflection on this Second Sunday of Easter Preparation as we move toward Easter. We’re learning about being in relationship with a God who chose to become vulnerable in the human Person of Jesus, and we’re being reminded about our own vulnerability, especially when it