This week’s Border Watch article includes thoughts about the end of daylight saving and how meeting the resurrected Jesus manifests an everyday lifestyle of reconciliation and forgiveness. The editor picked up on the association between resurrection and reconciliation in the paper’s title for the piece, which was nice. So, last Sunday was my favourite day …

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I used Who Will Roll Away The Stone by Ordinary Time as a prelude to the sunrise Easter service at 6.30am this morning. Mark’s Gospel was thematically woven through the service. This song picks up elements of Luke’s account. The lyrics: Early in the morning, the sun already risen Three women came bearing spices, the …

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Westminster Shorter Catechism – Lord’s Day 14 Q & A 27 Q Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist? A Christ’s humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition,1 made under the law,2 undergoing the miseries of this life,3 the wrath of God,4 and the cursed death of the cross;5 in being buried, …

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Songs of preparation: Because He’s Good, O Thank The LORD (Psalm 118), Oh, To See The Dawn, and Christ The Lord Is Risen Today He is risen. He is risen indeed. Prayer of Approach and Confession: The Lord is good and his steadfast love endures forever; this is the declaration and experience of the people …

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