“The words of the Exultet mean exactly what they say. This is the night when we have passed over from death to life, and bondage to sin has been broken. This is the night that the past and the present and the future have come together and there is no time. It’s not a metaphor. [...]
Read full post...Maundy Thursday
6:00 PM - Soup Supper
7:30 PM - Liturgy
9:00 PM-12:00 AM - Gethsemane Vigil (Undercroft)
Good Friday
Noon - 3:00 PM - Nave open for private prayer
7:30 PM - Good Friday Liturgy
Holy Saturday
10:00 AM - Ministry of the Word (Education building)
The Great Vigil (Saturday night)
9:00 PM - Vigil, followed by a gala Agape
(Overflow parking is available across [...]
[ March 23, 2008; 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. ] 11:00 AM - Choral Festival Eucharist
Redeemer will celebrate the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior with an 11:00 AM Choral Festival Eucharist in a beautifully decorated worship space.
Music
Two solos from Handel’s Messiah:
“I know that my Redeemer liveth”, with soprano Christina Siemens
“The trumpet shall sound”, with baritone Glenn Guhr and Judson Jay Scott, trumpet
Also, the choir will [...]
Read full post...[ March 22, 2008; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] 9:00 AM to Noon - Rehearsals and preparation for the Great Vigil
10:00 AM - Ministry of the Word (Education building)
Read full post...[ March 22, 2008; 9:00 pm; ] 9:00 PM - Vigil, followed by a gala Agape
(Overflow parking is available across the street in the Bethany parking lot)
Festive Easter music by the choir, and guest trumpeter Judson Jay Scott will perform solos by Hovhanness and Telemann.
From the 1st Century, the Church’s primary celebration of the Resurrection has taken place in the middle of the night [...]
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“The more you do the mission of Christ in the world the better your prayer life will get. It’ll become simpler, too: ‘Help!’”
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Contains the now-famous “give me the damn Jesus fish” story.
“This whole thing about the Good Shepherd, I think, needs some explanation. We tend to think of it as Jesus being kind to us, and being nurturing to us. And that’s really not totally what it’s about.
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Luke 24 1:12
“Do you want to live in a reality where death is not the end, but is a portal to life? do you want to live in a reality where evil does not have all the cards, God does? Do you want to live in a reality [...]
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“In the midst of the dead of night, Jesus was raised from the dead.
“We can remember the first Sunday after Christmas day, where John’s gospel is read; and it says, ‘And what came into being through him was life, and that life was the light of all people, and the light shone [...]
“Genesis 1:1″ by Karl Oles
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“Moshe’s Lament” by Wade Rockett
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“A New Heart And A New Spirit” by Hunter Close (instrumental)
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There were other fantastic performances that night which we couldn’t post for a variety of reasons: the sound was wonky, they [...]
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