April 23, 2023: Stay With Us

Third Sunday of Easter

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Scripture: Luke 24:13-35

Reverend Dr. Desi Larson

  • Prelude: “Amazing Love! How Can It Be?” arr. by Mary McDonald; Pauline Olsen and Donna Grubbs
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  • “Of All the Spirit’s Gifts to Me,” music by J. Meyer, words by Fred Pratt Green; Trinity Singers
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  • Hymn 71: “Glory Be to the Father (Gloria Patri),” by Henry W. Greatorex
  • Hymn 318: “Christ is Alive,” words by Brian Wren, tune Truro (1789)
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  • Hymn 175: “Jesus the Very Thought of Thee,” music by John B. Dykes, words by Bernard of Clairvaux, trans. by Edward Caswall
  • Offertory: “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty,” arr. by Gerald Peterson
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  • Hymn 95: “Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow,” words by Thomas Ken, music attr. to Louis Bourgeois
  • Special Music: “How Beautiful is the Church of God,” music by Joseph M. Martin, words by J. Paul Williams; Trinity Singers
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  • Scripture Reading: Luke 24:13-35; Philip Cardin
  • Sermon: “Stay With Us,” Pastor Desi Larson
  • Hymn 454: “Open My Eyes, That I May See,” by Clara H. Scott
  • Benediction Response 336: “Of All the Spirit’s Gifts to Me,” music by J. Meyer, words by Fred Pratt Green
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  • Postlude: “Repose,” music by Adolphe Hesse, arr. by Stewart Landon
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“Stay with Us,” Sermon Outline, April 22, 2023

 Focus verse: 29But they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.” So he went in to stay with them.  (Luke 24:29)

  • ENCOUNTER
    1. Christ with us – Close encounters of the Resurrection kind!
    2. What closes the disciples’ eyes to Jesus?
    3. What closes our eyes to Jesus with us?
  • HOSPITALITY
    1. Stay with us: Sacrament of encounter.
    2. Breaking of bread opens their eyes to Jesus’ identity.
    3. Communion: Sacrament where we ask weekly that Jesus “make yourself know to us in the breaking of the bread.” 
  • RESPONSE – Part 1
    1. Recognizing Jesus in our mist can transform our community.
    2. The Rabbi’s Gift (M. Scott Peck, M.D., The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace)
  • RESPONSE – Part 2
    1. Ponder and consider.
    2. Encountering Jesus in others.
    3. Encounter brings transformation.

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While they were talking and discussing,
Jesus himself came near and went with them,
but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
—Luke 24.15-16

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