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Morning Worship
University Baptist Church
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Sunday, April 25, 2021

UBC exists to live out the gospel of Jesus and be an affirming example of God’s light to all.

The Gathering: Brett Harris
Leader: Christ is risen!
All: Christ is risen indeed!

Prelude: “When We All Get to Heaven,” Zhaolei Xie

Call to Worship: Laura Laughlin
Leader: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. Let streets and homes with praises ring. Love, drowned in death, shall never die.
All: Christ is alive!
Leader: Christ is alive, saving, healing, here and now, touching every place and time.
All: Christ is alive!
Leader: Christ is alive and loves, and lives, where even hope has died.
All: Christ is alive!
Leader: Christ is alive! Women and men, in age and youth can feel the Spirit, hear the call, and find the way, the life, the truth, revealed in Jesus, freed for all.
All: Christ is alive!

Invocation: Laura Laughlin

Hymn: “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah,” Congregation
Guide me, O Great Jehovah, pilgrim through this barren land;
I am weak, but Thou are mighty; hold me with Thy powerful hand;
Bread of heaven, Bread of heaven,
feed me till I want no more, feed me till I want no more.

Open now the crystal fountain, whence the healing stream doth flow;
let the fire and cloudy pillar lead me all my journey through;
strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,
be Thou still my strength and shield, be Thou still my strength and shield.

Gospel Reading: Luke 24:44-47, Laura Laughlin
Leader: For the Word of God in Scripture, for the Word of God among us, for the Word of God within us:
All: Thanks be to God.

The Giving of Tithes and Offerings: Kathryn Kimmel

Offertory: “Wade in the Water” —Burleigh, Taylor Hightower, Zhaolei Xie


Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Christ all creatures here below,
Praise Holy Spirit evermore.
Praise Triune God whom we adore. Amen.

New Testament Reading: Acts 8:26-39, Brett Harris
Leader: For the Word of God in Scripture, for the Word of God among us, for the Word of God within us:
All: Thanks be to God.

Sermon: “Absolutely Nothing,” Brett Harris

Moment of Reflection: “In Christ There is No East or West,” Zhaolei Xie

Morning Prayer and Lord’s Prayer: Brett Harris
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Gloria Patri
Glory be to the Father,
And to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be,
World without end. Amen. Amen.

Hymn: “Baptized in Water,” Congregation
Baptized in water, sealed by the Spirit, dead in the tomb with Christ, our King;
one with His rising, freed and forgiven, thankfully now God’s praise we sing.

Baptized in water, sealed by the Spirit, marked with the sign of Christ, our King;
born of one Father, we are His children, joyfully now God’s praise we sing.

Commission and Blessing: Laura Laughlin
Leader: Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. Let streets and homes with praises ring. Love, drowned in death, shall never die.
All: Christ is alive!

Benediction: Brett Harris

Postlude: “Shall We Gather at the River,” Zhaolei Xie