Apr
When Faith Costs – Reverent Strangers
What if the hardest part of faith isn’t the cost? What if the real danger is forgetting who you are? This week in our “When Faith Costs” series, we’re talking about that strange moment when
• what used to feel normal doesn’t anymore
• belonging starts to slip
• and you wonder if something has gone wrong
But Scripture says something different:
• You’re not lost.
• You’re located.
• You’re not drifting.
You’ve been ransomed. And you don’t go back to find yourself because you were never left behind. You were bought out.
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Apr
Born Again, Not Back Again
What do you do when faith doesn’t make life easier… but harder?
When obedience costs you something.
When following Jesus creates tension instead of clarity.
When your old life starts to look, well, easier.
This Sunday, we step into 1 Peter 1:3–9 and confront a hard truth with the Easter Truth:
You weren’t improved.
You were born again.
And that means: You can’t go back.
Join us as we explore what it means to live with a living hope in a world that still feels like it’s falling apart – and why the cost of faith might actually be revealing something deeper than you think.
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Help us make this service participatory! Please gather your household. Open or print the Note Sheet to take notes during the message. Sing and respond during the service.
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Apr
Victim | Victor – Resurrection Celebrations
During Lent, we examined the paradoxes of Christian living–we are simultaneously weak and strong, lonely and together in community, crying out in lament and in praise. This is expected. Look up to Jesus: He is both priest and sacrifice, crucified and crowned, and His cross is His great glory. Rejoice in awe and wonder at the mystery–because He is the Victim, our death has died–because He is the Victor, our life has begun and will never end!
The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’” Then they remembered his words.
When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had happened. Luke 23:55-24:12 (NIV)
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Apr
Crucified | Coronated – Good Friday Tenebrae (Service of Darkness)
Good Friday Tenebrae The Tenebrae is a traditional Good Friday service dating back to the seventh or eighth century A.D. It impresses upon us the terrible consequences of sin and the magnitude of the Savior’s sacrifice for us. The service recalls seven key events from the final hours of Christ’s earthly life as recorded in Matthew, each paired with a hymn to enhance our contemplation and response to the passion of our Lord. He receives a crown of thorns instead of glory. Though He is put to death, He remains alive eternally. While He faces ridicule today, He will be honored forever. Despite our disbelief and disobedience, He adopts us and gives us His presence. We end His life, yet He gives us life. This moment is both an act of crucifixion and a crowning—for Him, and for us.
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