Hope Rising – Easter 2021
Sermon series: 28 March to 25 April
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- 9:30am GOOD FRIDAY Invitation, right
- 10am EASTER SUNDAY
Easter is all about hope as God does the impossible and brings Jesus back to life.
It validates all Jesus taught and died for, and models for us the way God is at work in the world. Despite all our many attempts to avoid the pain, suffering, despair, and ultimate death, they are all part of the human experience. The resurrection points to the profound paradoxical reality of our lives, that it is not in avoiding these things but accepting them as part of life, that love, joy and hope spring.
The title, “Hope Rising” points to the reality that no matter how we are experiencing life, even in its darkest hours, God is with us and walking with us. Hope rises amid the storm of despair, the fever of fear or the despondency of doom.
Jesus is hope personified, resurrected, and alive, with us now in the presence of the Holy Spirit, inviting and calling us to be people of hope amid the community we live in.
| DATE | THEME | INFORMATION | WATCH/LISTEN/ | PREACHING |
| 28 March | Hope Rising intro | Rising Beyond Hope Matthew 21: 1-11 | YouTube service Live Audio + Q&A | Liam Conway |
| GOOD FRIDAY 9:30am 2 April | Hope amid despair | Play Reading: “Who Really Killed Jesus” | Live Audio + Sermon | By Fiona Bradley Stephen Baxter |
| EASTER SUNDAY 4 April | Hope Rising | Some disciples shocked to the core Luke 24:13-32 | YouTube service Live Audio + Q&A … | Stephen Baxter |
| 11 April | You Are Witnesses | Luke 24:33-53 | YouTube service Live Audio + Q&A | Stephen Baxter |
| 18 April | God our Hope | Galatians 3:26-28 | YouTube service Live Audio + Q&A | Michael Henderson |
| 25 April | Hope for the Future | 2 Kings 25:27-30 | YouTube service Live Audio + Q&A | Liam Conway |