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About this Sermon | Luke 24:13-35 Elder Nakeshia Hedrick is the Executive Director of Family Promise Order of Worship | Sunday, April 18, 2021 Click here to download a printable PDF Prelude - “To God Be the Glory" Doane/Pethel - Melanie Manges, piano Welcome to Worship - Len Wilson Hymn of Praise - "To God Be the Glory" - Worship Team (Verse…

About this Sermon | Luke 24:1-12 First Baptist Church celebrates Easter 2021. Christ is Risen! Order of Worship | Easter Sunday, April, 2021 Click here to download a printable PDF Prelude - “Christ the Lord is Risen Today!" arr. Bober - Melanie Manges, piano Welcome to Worship - Sylvia Mohler One: Christ is Risen! All: Christ is Risen, Indeed! Hymn of…

About this Sermon | Luke 19:28-44 Synopsis coming soon! Order of Worship | Sunday, March 28, 2021 Click here to download a printable PDF Prelude - “The Palms” Faue/DeCou - Melanie Manges, organ Welcome to Worship - Charles Gullion Lenten Song - "Change My Heart, O God" - Worship Team Change my heart, O God, make it ever true. Change my heart…

About this Sermon | Luke 18:18-24, 19:1-10 Synopsis coming soon! Order of Worship | Sunday, March 21, 2021 Click here to download a printable PDF Prelude - “Hymns of the Cross” arr. Keveren - Melanie Manges, piano Welcome to Worship - Gordon Coppoc Lenten Song - "Change My Heart, O God" - Worship Team Change my heart, O God, make it ever…

About this Sermon | Luke 7:36-43 Synopsis coming soon! Order of Worship | Sunday, March 14, 2021 Click here to download a printable PDF Prelude - “Upon the Cross Extended” Walther  - Melanie Manges, organ Welcome to Worship - Harriet Coppoc Lenten Song - "I Come to the Cross" - Worship Team I come to the cross seeking mercy and grace; I…

About this Sermon | Luke 10:25-42 Synopsis coming soon! Order of Worship | Sunday, March 7, 2021 Click here to download a printable PDF Prelude - “Andante in A Minor” Handel - Melanie Manges, harpsichord Welcome to Worship - Len Wilson Lenten Song - "I Come to the Cross" - Worship Team I come to the cross seeking mercy and grace; I…

About this Sermon | Luke 9:18-27, 43b-45 In Luke 9, we find two passion predictions sandwiched around the experience of three disciples on the mountain of transfiguration. In the middle of the two times that Jesus makes it abundantly clear to his disciples that the road ahead involves being arrested and left to die on a cross, God shares an…

About this Sermon | Luke 15:1-32 In Luke 15, the Gospel writer presents three parables told by Jesus, immediately following each other: the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost sons. Playing on the human tendency to seek out what we've lost, Jesus shows us a vital truth about God: that wherever we are, whatever we've done, God meets…

About this Sermon | Luke 9:28-45 In Luke 9, we find an unusual story of a God sighting up on a mountain, alongside appearances of Moses & Elijah. Only Peter, James, and John accompany Jesus on the mountain to see this mysterious vision. What do we do with the reality of God's unbounded mystery? Order of Worship | Sunday, February…