Sunday, June 14th, 2020
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children’s Sunday School
Parents, as you are now the ‘Sunday School Teachers’ for your kids, we have prepared this tool to help you guide your kids into the rest of the service. We encourage you to watch alongside of your kids and participate together.
Click the link above for a downloadable/printable activity sheet for the scavenger hunt activity described in this week’s Sunday School Lesson video.
Welcome & Announcements
Call To Worship
Have someone read through this call to worship from Psalm 62. As you prepare your heart for worship, remember that our God is trustworthy “at all times”, and he is our fortress no matter the brokenness in our world. He is worthy of our attention and our praise this morning!
Yes, my soul, find rest in God;
my hope comes from him.
Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.
My salvation and my honor depend on God;
he is my mighty rock, my refuge.
Trust in him at all times, you people;
pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.”
— Psalm 62:5-8
Worship
Sermon
Click on the video above to watch the sermon for this week.
This week, we’re studying Luke 24:36-49 as we conclude our sermon series: 7 Encounters with the Risen Lord. David Broberg, member of our preaching team will be sharing from the word today.
Going Deeper
You don’t have to answer all of these questions. Look them over, and use one or two that might be helpful as you respond to God’s Word.
What does the fact that Jesus was raised physically from the dead mean to us? Romans 8:10-11 says, “But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.” How does this reality of the Gospel bring hope into our world, currently marred by pandemic, death, murder, tumult, injustice, lawlessness, and fear?
Do we live like death still wins? Sure, we know that Jesus promises us eternal life through faith in him, but have we embraced that the resurrection of Jesus means what was true of him will be true for us. Read “Death, Be not Proud” a poem by John Donne. Spend some time in prayer asking Jesus to allow this critical truth to dig into our hearts even more so today.
We are vessels of God’s future hope for the world today. In what ways are we living to represent what “is good, right and true” in the places of life that we occupy? As a parent? As a spouse? As a child? As an employee? As a student? As a neighbor? We invite you to prayerfully imagine what God might call you into next in order to be a vessel of hope today. Take 5 minutes and journal or be silent in prayer before the Lord as a starting place today.
Community Updates & PRAYER
Submit a Prayer Request: Share with one another the needs, challenges, and joys that you, your family, your neighbors, and your workplaces are going through during this time. Prayer requests can be shared with either our whole church, or just the prayer leadership teams.
Spend Some Time in Prayer: We have collected some prayer requests that have been submitted to us and we have posted them on our community prayer wall. This morning, we invite you to pray for those needs posted there, and we also invite you pray over what was shared or discovered in the Going Deeper questions above.
Share a Photo or Video: Here you have an opportunity to post a video, photo, or selfie from different groups and families to share with one another. Take a selfie with Worship Online in the background! Hold up signs! Express your gratitude and celebrate being a part of Community Church!
Benediction
Choose someone to read the passage of Scripture below out loud, or have someone from your family or Zoom group read it out loud as a benediction over our church family.
“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen”
— Ephesians 3:20-21
giving
As you conclude in worship you can login to our giving portal using the link below, take time to mail a check, or reach out to your bank to set up a bill pay. Remember that our tithes and offerings are a continued act of worship and are a physical act of entrusting all of our lives to Jesus.