Easter Sunday – April 8
Knowing this, we did something different and decided to begin a series on Easter Sunday. Over the past couple months our staff has been talking to people in our community – friends, neighbours, waitresses, mechanics – and asking them what they really – like rrrrreeeeally – want out of life. We got lots of answers – happiness, money, vacation, etc – but we were able to boil the answers down to four basic categories – love, purpose, significance and security.
So we launched the series on Sunday titled “Dear God, I have a question” and began with “Does anybody really love me?”
Producing a service that was focused on celebrating the resurrection as well as building around this idea of the need for love was a really great challenge and I think we pulled it off very well. We were video-heavy this week and the band pulled the songs off 100%!
Here’s our list -
Video – Easter Drawing
Everlasting God – Brenton Brown & Ken Riley
Christ The Lord Is Risen Today – Charles Wesley
In Christ Alone – Keith Getty & Stuart Townend
Our God Reigns (“up from the grave” verse & choruses) – Leonard Smith
Video – I Am Loved
Your Love Is Amazing – Brenton Brown & Brian Doerksen
Because of Your Love – Paul Baloche & Brenton Brown
God So Loved – Reuben Morgan
In the middle of that first set I read a couple of verses of 1 Corinthians 15. The “In Christ Alone”/”Our God Reigns” package was incredible – the response from the congregation during the last half was amazing. People’s hands were raised, their voices were going full blast – we really were in the presence of God singing His praise and just celebrating the fact that He is victorious and conquering.
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