Hello everyone,
Welcome to the month of April and especially the very significant weekends of Palm Sunday (April 10th), Good Friday (April 15th) and Easter Sunday (April 17th).
This Sunday we will also be starting a new sermon series titled Resurrection Life. Every day is important to us as believers, but these next few weeks are so foundational to our faith in God through what Jesus Christ did on the cross and then rose from the dead three days later.
April 3 ~ The Week that Changed Everything (*Communion)
April 10 ~ Love Started Here (Palm Sunday)
April 17 ~ A New Kind of Alive (Easter Sunday: Water Baptism)
If you cannot attend church this Sunday, why not join online through our Zoom stream.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6778263718?pwd=ZmM0RVRpVVg0eU54MXV6d1FCL1ErUT09
Let’s continue to remember to pray for the country of Ukraine this week that God will bring protection and peace!!
Why not join us for Zoom Prayer every Wednesday from 7:30pm-8pm
Pastor Glenn and Cheryl
Sermon Series
April 3rd ~ Resurrection Life, The Week That Changed Everything by Glenn Embree
1. Jesus started the ____________ entering the city riding a ________________.
Matthew 21:1-6 “As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethpage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, ‘Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, tell him that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away’. This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet: ‘Say to the daughter of Zion, “See your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey” ‘. The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them.”
Isaiah 62:10,11 and Zechariah 9:9
2. Jesus met with his __________________ and celebrated the _______________.
Luke 22:14-15 “When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles were reclined at the table. And he said to them, ‘I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.”
Luke 22:24 “Also a dispute arose among them as to which of them was considered to be greatest.”
John 13:4-5 “…so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.”
3. Jesus went to the ___________________________ to ______________________.
Matthew 26:36-38 “Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, ‘Sit here while I go over there and pray’. He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, ‘My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me,'”
Luke 22:44 “And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.”
4. Jesus was ________________________ and forced into _____________________.
John 18:12-13 “Then the detachment of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus. They bound him and brought him first to Annas, who was the father-in -law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.”
John 18:29 “So Pilate came out to them and asked, ‘What charges are you bringing against this man?’”
Luke 23:4 “Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, ‘I find no basis for a charge against this man.'”
John 18:39-40 “ ‘But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release the king of the Jews?’ They shouted back, ‘No, not him! Give us Barabbas!”
Matthew 27:24 “When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. ‘I am innocent of this man’s blood’ he said. ‘It is your responsibility.'”
5. Jesus began his __________________ towards the ___________________.
Matthew 27:31 “After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.”
Luke 23:32-33 “Two other men, both criminals were also led out with him to be executed. When they came to the place called the Skull, there they crucified him, along with the criminals-one on his right and one on his left.”
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Isaiah 53:4 “Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wound s we are healed.”
1 Peter 2:24 “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.”
Important Events
April Birthdays:
- 1st Mandy Koop
- 1st Jane Valcourt
- 1st Isaac McMaster
- 1st Elizabeth Fox
- 10th Isaiah Street
- 16th Nicole Hamm
- 24th Cary Chernoff
- 28th Dan Kelly
- 28th Justin Boudreau
- 28th Kristen Baker
- 29th Brad Hutchison
- 30th Jared Embree
April Anniversaries:
- 6th Don and Janice Berg
- 28th Brittani & Everett Johnson
- 28th Phil and Jessica Whitta
Kidzone starts at 10:30am and is for those in Kindergarten to Grade 5! Our current series is The Non-Avengers where we take a deeper look at how to show forgiveness to others.
April 3 ~ Jesus Prepares a Place
We also encourage the kids to learn the series Bible verse (if they memorize it they get a prize!):
“May you have power together with all the Lord’s holy people to understand Christ’s love. May you know how wide and long and high and deep it is.”
Kidzone Director: Cassidy Hutchison
If you’re a middle school student, why not stop by the youth room every other Sunday? Also, feel free to come before (9:30am) and after (12pm) service to hang out with the other youth!
We also meet Sunday Evenings from 6:30pm-8:30pm at the CBC Chaple, we would love for you to come and be a part of the Books of the Bible series we are doing. Everyone from grades 6-12 is welcome 🙂
Youth Director: Jared Embree