Worship Schedule & Sermon Notes
Part of Past Sermons—Notes from Previous Sermons
March 14, 2023

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Order of Worship

Welcome/Opening Prayer
Praise & Worship

-Hymn of Heaven
-I Speak Jesus
Guided Prayer Time
Message
Response & Reflection Time

-His Mercy is More
Verse Reading & Closing Prayer

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Sermon Point:

, who had been a was converted to the faith when he also believed he saw the resurrected Jesus.

Three Commonly Accepted Facts About Jesus

1) Jesus was a real historical person.
2) He died by Roman crucifixion.
3) Jesus’ disciples believed they saw the risen Jesus.

Scripture References

and that he

to Cephas, then to the Twelve. Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers and sisters at one time; most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to , then to all the apostles (1 Cor. 15:5-7).

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of

, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us?” So they were by him (Mark 6:3).

Jesus entered a house, and the crowd gathered again so that they were not even able to eat. When his

heard this, they set out to restrain him, because they said, “He’s out of his ” (Mark 3:20-21).

So his

said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples can see your works that you are doing. For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” (For not even his believed in him) (John 7:3-5).

When

, Cephas, and John—those recognized as —acknowledged the grace that had been given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to me and Barnabas, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised (Galatians 2:9).

, a of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: To the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings.

They all were continually united in prayer, along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and his

(Acts 1:14).

Quotes Referenced

so he [Annas] assembled the sanhedrin of judges, and brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James, and some others, and when he had formed an accusation against them as breakers of the law, he delivered them to be stoned.. —Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 20, Chapter 9

It may be taken as historically certain that Peter and the disciples had experiences after Jesus’s death in which Jesus appeared to them as the risen Christ. Thus, we are in basic agreement that following Jesus’s crucifixion various individuals and groups of people experienced appearances of Christ alive from the dead. The real bone of contention will be how these experiences are best to be explained. —Gerd Ludemann, University of Göttingen, Germany

I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God. —Thomas Nagel, New York University