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Lord Jesus,

In the garden you agonized while we slept.
In the garden you pleaded to be freed from the jaws of death.
In the garden you sweat and bled in desperation.
In the garden you yielded to your Father’s will.
In the garden you heard the soldiers’ footsteps.
In the garden you were kissed in betrayal.
In the garden you submitted to the darkness to bring us eternal light.
We praise your name forever. Amen.

- the opensourcebook

Shout to the Lord by Darlene Zschech Copyright 1993 Hillsong Publishing

Open Your Eyes by Jon Egan Copyright 2007 Vertical Worship

Your Name by Paul Baloche 2006

Because of Your Love Phil Wickham Copyright 2008 Phil Wickham Music (Admin. by Simpleville Music, Inc.)

Our theme is this year is “Recasting The Creek From The Inside Out”. Listen now to our purpose for this theme.

If you are interested in the The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus audio or FREE MP3s you can click on the image to the right. This is an excellent resource to introduce someone to Christ.

When I Think About the Lord by James Huey 1998

Overcome by Jon Egan 2007

Your Name by Paul Baloche 2006

Luke the doctor penned, “…that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.” We would love to have you join us to celebrate the truth of Christ’s defeat over sin and death and what that means for you.

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Looking for a place to hunt some eggs and play some pretty sweet games as a part of your Easter activities? Bring your kids on over on Saturday, April 3rd at 10:00 am. We would love to have you join us. Below is a map and you can click here to contact us if you have any other questions.

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Luke writes, “…It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour,  while the sun’s light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.  Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!’ And having said this he breathed his last. Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, ‘Certainly this man was innocent!’ And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts. And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things.”

Join us on Friday April 2nd, 2010 at 7:00 pm as we remember the curse that Christ became for us. Directions below.

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O God of Unsearchable Greatness.
Before thee I am nothing but vanity, iniquity, perishing;
Sin has forfeited thy favour,
stripped me of they image,
banished me from thy presence,
exposed me to the curse of thy law;

I cannot deliver myself, and am in despair.
But a resource is found in thee,
for without my desert or desire.
Thou didst devise an everlasting plan,
honourable to thy perfections,
and which angels desired to look into.

And the Word which announces all the glory of this goodness
is nigh me, invites me, beseeches me.
May I, a convinced and self-despairing sinner.
Find Jesus as the power unto salvation,
his death the centre of all relief,
the source of all gospel-blessings.

He me to repair to that cross,
be crucified to the world by it,
and in it find deepest humiliation,
motives to patience and self-denial,
grace for active benevolence.
Faith to grasp eternal life,
hope to life up my head,
love to bind me for ever
to him who died and rose for me.

May his shed blood make me
more thankful for thy mercies,
more humble under thy correction,
more zealous in thy service,
more watchful against temptation,
more contented in my circumstances,
more useful to others.

1. Written for Trinity Sunday. (The first Sunday after Pentecost)
2. Uses the word Trinity in the hymn (not many songs do) a concept explicitly conveyed in scripture although the word itself is not found.
3. Written by Englishman Reginald Heber born in 1783.
4. Heber had a deep thirst for knowledge beginning early in his life and a love for prose and poetry.
5. While at Oxford he won several awards for the descriptive grandeur of his language.
6. While accomplishing much in his life died of a stroke at the early age of 43.
7. Holy, Holy, Holy was only a poem when he died. It wasn’t until the mid-19th century that the familiar tune was written by John Bacchus Dykes.
8. John Bacchus Dykes was an Englishman proficient with the organ at the age of 10.
9. Dykes wrote over 300 hymn melodies including Nicaea, written specifically for Holy, Holy, Holy.
10. The word Nicaea referenced the council of Nicaea convened in 325AD where the Nicene Creed reaffirmed God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Note: We don’t use the same meter as the artist in the song above, but it’s a fun one to listen to.

Praise the Father, Praise the Son by Chris Tomlin

Holy, Holy, Holy by Heber. Reginald, music: John Bacchus Dykes, 1826 – history coming on tomorrow’s post

You are God Alone by Billy and Cindy Foote, 2004

You Alone Can Rescue by Matt Redman, 2009