We Worship the God Who Has Resurrection Power
Welcome
Song of Praise “Come People of the Risen King”
Call to Worship Psalm 16:7-11
Song of Praise “Worship Christ the Risen King/Christ the Lord is Risen Today”
Confession of Faith – Apostles’ Creed
Song of Praise “It Was Finished Upon that Cross”
Prayer of Adoration
Greet One Another
Confession of Faith – Our World Belongs to God Preamble 4-6
Prayer of Intercession
Giving of God’s Tithes and Our Offerings
Song of Preparation “Living Hope”
Scripture Reading Revelation 21:1-7
Sermon “What is Your Hope In” Rev. Craig Swartz
Prayer of Commitment
Song of Response “In Christ Alone”
Benediction
SERMON NOTES:
“What are we? Merchants, miners, tinkers, toy-makers. Hardly the stuff of legend.” J.R.R. Tolkien
Revelation 21:3
1st main point
GOD HAS A FOR ALL OF
1 Corinthians 15:20-24
Revelation 21:1-2
Romans 8:21
Psalm 116:9
“Tears here represent all human sorrow, tragedy, and evil. Accompanying the glorious vision of God will be a transformed mode of existence in which the sorrows and evils of existence in the old order are left far behind.” Eldon Ladd
But suppose that what you are up against is a surgeon whose intentions are wholly good. The kinder and more conscientious he is, the more inexorably he will go on cutting. If he yielded to your entreaties, if he stopped before the operation was complete, all the pain up to that point would have been useless….What do people mean when they say, “I am not afraid of God because I know He is good”? Have they never even been to a dentist? C.S. Lewis
2nd main point
GOD HAS A FOR HIS
Revelation 21:3
“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”Tertullian
Revelation 21:6-7
3rd main point
GOD HAS THE TO MAKE ALL THINGS
2 Corinthians 5:17
Titus 2:11-14