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SUMMARY:Resurrection Sunday Evening
DESCRIPTION:Below you will find the Bible readings set for this occasion in the Revised Common Lectionary\, with our Australian idiomatic paraphrases of them\, plus prayers and sermons based on them. \n\n\n\nBible Readings (paraphrased)\n\n\n\nLections from The Revised Common Lectionary. Copyright 1992 by the Consultation on Common Texts(CCT) P.O. Box 340003\, Room 381\, Nashville\, TN 37203-0003\, USA. Used with Permission. \n\n\n	\n\n		\n			\n				  Isaiah 25: 6-9			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Every people on earth will be invited to the sacred mountain\nfor the huge party thrown by the LORD who rules over everything.\nIt will be the feast to end all feasts\,\nwith the very finest of foods and wines:\nchoice meats\, wines aged to perfection\,\ngourmet delicacies to make every mouth water! \nAnd right here on this sacred mountain\nthe LORD will tear off the pall of death\nand release the nations from the coffin that held them.\nThe LORD will swallow up death once and for all. \nWith that\, the Lord GOD will wipe the tears from every eye\,\nand God’s people will no longer be humiliated and despised;\nThe LORD says so and that settles it. \nWhen that happens people will say\,\nWow! This is our God!\nWe hoped\, we waited\, we trusted God to save us.\nAnd our waiting has not been in vain.\nThe LORD has not let us down.\nCelebrate! Sing and dance\,\nfor God has come to our rescue and set us free. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 114			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	When we were led out of the land of slavery\n- the people of Israel\, coming out from under the foreign thumb -\nthe land of Judah became a sacred place\,\nthe land of Israel came under sovereign rule. \nThe wild sea took one look\, and turned tail and ran\,\nthe Jordan river backed off and headed the other way.\nThe mountains skipped like a rock wallaby;\nthe hills were as jumpy as a kelpie pup. \nWhat was it that made the wild sea turn tail?\nWhat was it that made the Jordan back off?\nWhat made the mountains quiver and jump?\nWhat made the hills shudder and shake? \nIt was awe of you\, LORD\, God of our ancestors.\nThe whole earth trembles in your presence.\nFor you are the one who melts rocks into pools of water;\nthe one who brings springs bubbling up from hard baked ground. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  1 Corinthians 5: 6b-8			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	You do realise\, don’t you\, that it only takes a little bit of yeast to leaven a whole batch of bread dough? A little bit of corruption can similarly affect a whole congregation\, so get rid of it. Just as we have traditionally cleaned out every trace of yeast from our homes in preparation for the Passover festival when we use only unleavened bread\, so you should clean the corruption from your midst. You are to be the new batch of unleavened bread. In Christ\, our Paschal lamb has been sacrificed. Now is the time for us to celebrate the festival\, and just as we can’t celebrate it with yeast-leavened bread\, neither can we celebrate it with the old yeast of inhumanity and evil. We celebrate this festival with the unleavened bread of truth and integrity. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Luke 24: 13-49			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	In the afternoon of the day that the tomb had been found empty\, a couple who had been followers of Jesus were heading back home to the small town called Emmaus. As they walked the ten kilometres or so from Jerusalem\, they were talking over everything that had happened in the past few days. Along the way\, Jesus himself joined them\, but to their eyes he was just another stranger on the road. He asked them\, “What’s all this you are discussing so intently as you travel?” \nThey pulled up in their tracks and looked at him with long faces. One of them\, a man named Cleopas\, said to him\, “You must be the only stranger in and around Jerusalem who has not caught up with what’s been going on in the last few days.” \n“What has been going on?” Jesus asked. \nThey replied\, “It is all to do with Jesus of Nazareth. He was a prophet whose words and actions electrified the people in the presence of God. The religious and civil authorities had him arrested and then pushed for the death penalty. They got their way and he was executed. We’d had our hopes pinned on him being the one who would set Israel back in its rightful place. It’s all been over for three days now. A strange twist has rocked us all today\, though. Some women from our group apparently went to the tomb first thing this morning and couldn’t find his body. They came back and told the rest of us that they had seen a vision of angels who said that Jesus was alive. We sent a group down to check out their story\, and they found things just the way the women had said\, but there was no sign of Jesus anywhere.” \nWhen they had finished filling him in\, Jesus said to them\, “What a thick-headed pair you are! Why are you so slow to get your heads and your hearts around everything that the prophets spelled out?! Hasn’t it always been the case that the Messiah would have to cop all this suffering before getting in on the glory that was in store for him?” \nJesus spent the rest of their journey explaining the scriptures to them. Passage by passage\, he showed them what Moses and the prophets had said about him. \nWhen they reached the turn-off to the town they were heading for\, Jesus appeared set to push on up the highway\, but they put the hard word on him to stop at their place overnight since the sun was going down and the day was almost over. So he accepted their offer of hospitality and went home with them. When he sat down to the evening meal with them\, he picked up a loaf of bread\, gave thanks\, broke it\, and gave it to them. Suddenly their eyes were opened and they realised who he was; and just as suddenly he disappeared from sight. They looked at one another and said\, “No wonder there was such a fire burning in our guts when he was explaining the scriptures to us on the road!” \nSo\, without a moment’s delay\, they were on their feet and hurrying back to Jerusalem to tell the news to the eleven and the rest of the crew. When they found them\, they were all together and abuzz with news: “The Lord really has risen! He has appeared to Simon Peter!” \nThe couple from Emmaus filled them all in on what had happened on the road\, and how it had dawned on them who he was when the bread had been broken. \nWhile they were talking about all this\, Jesus himself suddenly appeared\, standing among them. “Greetings!” he said\, “Peace be with you.” \nTaken by surprise\, they thought he was a ghost\, and were scared spitless. Jesus said to them\, “What have you got to be afraid of? Why are you letting your doubts get the better of you? Here\, take a look at my hands and feet. See for yourselves that it really is me. Reach out and touch me and you will know that I am made of flesh and bone. No ghost can claim that!” \nAs he spoke\, he showed them his hands and feet. It all seemed too good to be true; so wonderful that they couldn’t believe their eyes. Their heads were bursting with joy and disbelief! Jesus asked them\, “Have you got anything here I can eat?” \nThey gave him a piece of grilled fish and he took it and ate it in front of them. Then he said to them\, “The things I have said while I was with you amount to this: everything written about me in the law of Moses\, the prophets\, and the psalms is to be fulfilled.”  \nAs he spoke they began to see how to read the scriptures with open minds so as to understand what God was saying in them. Jesus said to them: \n“What was written will now be clear to you: that the Messiah is to suffer and then rise from the dead on the third day. It was also written that the people of every nation must be told of the Messiah’s call to turn their lives around and receive forgiveness for their toxic ways. You can get started here in Jerusalem. You have witnessed these things first hand\, so you can tell everyone what you have seen and heard. And don’t miss this: I myself am sending you the gift that my Father promised\, so wait here in the city until you have been fitted out with God’s power.”  \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n	\n\n\n\nPrayers\n\n\n	\n\n		\n			\n				  Eucharistic Preface			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Let us lift up our hearts.\nWe lift them to the Lord.\nLet us give thanks to the Lord our God.\nIt is right to give our thanks and praise. \nIt is indeed right to give you our thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor you have raised Jesus Christ to life\nand destroyed the shroud of death that covered all people. \nYou made the earth\, and it trembles in your presence;\nyou rescued your people from slavery\,\nleading them through the deep waters\nfrom death to life. \nYou sent your Son\, Jesus\, to us\,\na prophet mighty in word and deed\nwho taught us to celebrate your salvation\nin sincerity and truth.\nThough he was condemned to death\nand crucified by the religious\,\nyou raised him from the dead\nand wiped the tears from our faces.\nRisen indeed\, he is with us always\,\nbreathing his peace over our fears\nand spreading a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Short Preface (for insertion into Eucharistic prayers with fixed prefaces)			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	We give thanks for your Risen Son\, Jesus Christ\,\nwho breathes his peace over our fears\nand spreads a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  General Prayer of Thanksgiving			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	(Preface reformatted for use apart from communion)\n\nWe give you all thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor you have raised Jesus Christ to life\nand destroyed the shroud of death that covered all people. \nYou made the earth\, and it trembles in your presence;\nyou rescued your people from slavery\,\nleading them through the deep waters\nfrom death to life. \nYou sent your Son\, Jesus\, to us\,\na prophet mighty in word and deed\nwho taught us to celebrate your salvation\nin sincerity and truth.\nThough he was condemned to death\nand crucified by the religious\,\nyou raised him from the dead\nand wiped the tears from our faces.\nRisen indeed\, he is with us always\,\nbreathing his peace over our fears\nand spreading a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \nTherefore\, with our hearts lifted high\,\nwe offer you thanks and praise at all times\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord\,\nwho lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, for ever and ever.\nAmen. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Declaration of Grace / Absolution			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	As the scriptures said\,\nthe Messiah suffered and rose from the dead on the third day\,\nso that repentance and forgiveness of sins\nmight be proclaimed in his name to all nations. \nSisters and Brothers\,\n  your sins are forgiven;\n    be at peace. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Commission & Benediction			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Go now as witnesses of God’s victory over evil and death.\nThe risen Christ has made himself known to you\nin the breaking of bread\,\nso clean out the old yeast of malice and evil\nand live as the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. \nAnd may God wipe every tear from your faces;\nMay Christ Jesus make himself known to you in all things;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit open your eyes\nand set your hearts on fire with love. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n	\n\n\n\nSermons\n\n\n\nSermons will open in new tabs from our SYCBaps church website. \n\n\n\n\nCan’t see the wood for the treesA sermon on Luke 24: 13-35 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nOpen Minds and Narrow ThinkingA sermon on Luke 24:36b-48 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nEaster in OrdinaryA sermon on Luke 24.13-35 by Garry Deverell\n\n\n\nThe Stranger on the Road of DespairA sermon on Luke 24: 13-35 & 1 Peter 1: 17-23 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThere and Back AgainA sermon on Luke 24:13-35 by Roslyn Wright
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SUMMARY:Resurrection Sunday Evening
DESCRIPTION:Below you will find the Bible readings set for this occasion in the Revised Common Lectionary\, with our Australian idiomatic paraphrases of them\, plus prayers and sermons based on them. \n\n\n\nBible Readings (paraphrased)\n\n\n\nLections from The Revised Common Lectionary. Copyright 1992 by the Consultation on Common Texts(CCT) P.O. Box 340003\, Room 381\, Nashville\, TN 37203-0003\, USA. Used with Permission. \n\n\n	\n\n		\n			\n				  Isaiah 25: 6-9			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Every people on earth will be invited to the sacred mountain\nfor the huge party thrown by the LORD who rules over everything.\nIt will be the feast to end all feasts\,\nwith the very finest of foods and wines:\nchoice meats\, wines aged to perfection\,\ngourmet delicacies to make every mouth water! \nAnd right here on this sacred mountain\nthe LORD will tear off the pall of death\nand release the nations from the coffin that held them.\nThe LORD will swallow up death once and for all. \nWith that\, the Lord GOD will wipe the tears from every eye\,\nand God’s people will no longer be humiliated and despised;\nThe LORD says so and that settles it. \nWhen that happens people will say\,\nWow! This is our God!\nWe hoped\, we waited\, we trusted God to save us.\nAnd our waiting has not been in vain.\nThe LORD has not let us down.\nCelebrate! Sing and dance\,\nfor God has come to our rescue and set us free. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 114			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	When we were led out of the land of slavery\n- the people of Israel\, coming out from under the foreign thumb -\nthe land of Judah became a sacred place\,\nthe land of Israel came under sovereign rule. \nThe wild sea took one look\, and turned tail and ran\,\nthe Jordan river backed off and headed the other way.\nThe mountains skipped like a rock wallaby;\nthe hills were as jumpy as a kelpie pup. \nWhat was it that made the wild sea turn tail?\nWhat was it that made the Jordan back off?\nWhat made the mountains quiver and jump?\nWhat made the hills shudder and shake? \nIt was awe of you\, LORD\, God of our ancestors.\nThe whole earth trembles in your presence.\nFor you are the one who melts rocks into pools of water;\nthe one who brings springs bubbling up from hard baked ground. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  1 Corinthians 5: 6b-8			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	You do realise\, don’t you\, that it only takes a little bit of yeast to leaven a whole batch of bread dough? A little bit of corruption can similarly affect a whole congregation\, so get rid of it. Just as we have traditionally cleaned out every trace of yeast from our homes in preparation for the Passover festival when we use only unleavened bread\, so you should clean the corruption from your midst. You are to be the new batch of unleavened bread. In Christ\, our Paschal lamb has been sacrificed. Now is the time for us to celebrate the festival\, and just as we can’t celebrate it with yeast-leavened bread\, neither can we celebrate it with the old yeast of inhumanity and evil. We celebrate this festival with the unleavened bread of truth and integrity. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Luke 24: 13-49			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	In the afternoon of the day that the tomb had been found empty\, a couple who had been followers of Jesus were heading back home to the small town called Emmaus. As they walked the ten kilometres or so from Jerusalem\, they were talking over everything that had happened in the past few days. Along the way\, Jesus himself joined them\, but to their eyes he was just another stranger on the road. He asked them\, “What’s all this you are discussing so intently as you travel?” \nThey pulled up in their tracks and looked at him with long faces. One of them\, a man named Cleopas\, said to him\, “You must be the only stranger in and around Jerusalem who has not caught up with what’s been going on in the last few days.” \n“What has been going on?” Jesus asked. \nThey replied\, “It is all to do with Jesus of Nazareth. He was a prophet whose words and actions electrified the people in the presence of God. The religious and civil authorities had him arrested and then pushed for the death penalty. They got their way and he was executed. We’d had our hopes pinned on him being the one who would set Israel back in its rightful place. It’s all been over for three days now. A strange twist has rocked us all today\, though. Some women from our group apparently went to the tomb first thing this morning and couldn’t find his body. They came back and told the rest of us that they had seen a vision of angels who said that Jesus was alive. We sent a group down to check out their story\, and they found things just the way the women had said\, but there was no sign of Jesus anywhere.” \nWhen they had finished filling him in\, Jesus said to them\, “What a thick-headed pair you are! Why are you so slow to get your heads and your hearts around everything that the prophets spelled out?! Hasn’t it always been the case that the Messiah would have to cop all this suffering before getting in on the glory that was in store for him?” \nJesus spent the rest of their journey explaining the scriptures to them. Passage by passage\, he showed them what Moses and the prophets had said about him. \nWhen they reached the turn-off to the town they were heading for\, Jesus appeared set to push on up the highway\, but they put the hard word on him to stop at their place overnight since the sun was going down and the day was almost over. So he accepted their offer of hospitality and went home with them. When he sat down to the evening meal with them\, he picked up a loaf of bread\, gave thanks\, broke it\, and gave it to them. Suddenly their eyes were opened and they realised who he was; and just as suddenly he disappeared from sight. They looked at one another and said\, “No wonder there was such a fire burning in our guts when he was explaining the scriptures to us on the road!” \nSo\, without a moment’s delay\, they were on their feet and hurrying back to Jerusalem to tell the news to the eleven and the rest of the crew. When they found them\, they were all together and abuzz with news: “The Lord really has risen! He has appeared to Simon Peter!” \nThe couple from Emmaus filled them all in on what had happened on the road\, and how it had dawned on them who he was when the bread had been broken. \nWhile they were talking about all this\, Jesus himself suddenly appeared\, standing among them. “Greetings!” he said\, “Peace be with you.” \nTaken by surprise\, they thought he was a ghost\, and were scared spitless. Jesus said to them\, “What have you got to be afraid of? Why are you letting your doubts get the better of you? Here\, take a look at my hands and feet. See for yourselves that it really is me. Reach out and touch me and you will know that I am made of flesh and bone. No ghost can claim that!” \nAs he spoke\, he showed them his hands and feet. It all seemed too good to be true; so wonderful that they couldn’t believe their eyes. Their heads were bursting with joy and disbelief! Jesus asked them\, “Have you got anything here I can eat?” \nThey gave him a piece of grilled fish and he took it and ate it in front of them. Then he said to them\, “The things I have said while I was with you amount to this: everything written about me in the law of Moses\, the prophets\, and the psalms is to be fulfilled.”  \nAs he spoke they began to see how to read the scriptures with open minds so as to understand what God was saying in them. Jesus said to them: \n“What was written will now be clear to you: that the Messiah is to suffer and then rise from the dead on the third day. It was also written that the people of every nation must be told of the Messiah’s call to turn their lives around and receive forgiveness for their toxic ways. You can get started here in Jerusalem. You have witnessed these things first hand\, so you can tell everyone what you have seen and heard. And don’t miss this: I myself am sending you the gift that my Father promised\, so wait here in the city until you have been fitted out with God’s power.”  \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n	\n\n\n\nPrayers\n\n\n	\n\n		\n			\n				  Eucharistic Preface			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Let us lift up our hearts.\nWe lift them to the Lord.\nLet us give thanks to the Lord our God.\nIt is right to give our thanks and praise. \nIt is indeed right to give you our thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor you have raised Jesus Christ to life\nand destroyed the shroud of death that covered all people. \nYou made the earth\, and it trembles in your presence;\nyou rescued your people from slavery\,\nleading them through the deep waters\nfrom death to life. \nYou sent your Son\, Jesus\, to us\,\na prophet mighty in word and deed\nwho taught us to celebrate your salvation\nin sincerity and truth.\nThough he was condemned to death\nand crucified by the religious\,\nyou raised him from the dead\nand wiped the tears from our faces.\nRisen indeed\, he is with us always\,\nbreathing his peace over our fears\nand spreading a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Short Preface (for insertion into Eucharistic prayers with fixed prefaces)			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	We give thanks for your Risen Son\, Jesus Christ\,\nwho breathes his peace over our fears\nand spreads a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  General Prayer of Thanksgiving			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	(Preface reformatted for use apart from communion)\n\nWe give you all thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor you have raised Jesus Christ to life\nand destroyed the shroud of death that covered all people. \nYou made the earth\, and it trembles in your presence;\nyou rescued your people from slavery\,\nleading them through the deep waters\nfrom death to life. \nYou sent your Son\, Jesus\, to us\,\na prophet mighty in word and deed\nwho taught us to celebrate your salvation\nin sincerity and truth.\nThough he was condemned to death\nand crucified by the religious\,\nyou raised him from the dead\nand wiped the tears from our faces.\nRisen indeed\, he is with us always\,\nbreathing his peace over our fears\nand spreading a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \nTherefore\, with our hearts lifted high\,\nwe offer you thanks and praise at all times\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord\,\nwho lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, for ever and ever.\nAmen. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Declaration of Grace / Absolution			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	As the scriptures said\,\nthe Messiah suffered and rose from the dead on the third day\,\nso that repentance and forgiveness of sins\nmight be proclaimed in his name to all nations. \nSisters and Brothers\,\n  your sins are forgiven;\n    be at peace. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Commission & Benediction			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Go now as witnesses of God’s victory over evil and death.\nThe risen Christ has made himself known to you\nin the breaking of bread\,\nso clean out the old yeast of malice and evil\nand live as the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. \nAnd may God wipe every tear from your faces;\nMay Christ Jesus make himself known to you in all things;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit open your eyes\nand set your hearts on fire with love. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n	\n\n\n\nSermons\n\n\n\nSermons will open in new tabs from our SYCBaps church website. \n\n\n\n\nCan’t see the wood for the treesA sermon on Luke 24: 13-35 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nOpen Minds and Narrow ThinkingA sermon on Luke 24:36b-48 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nEaster in OrdinaryA sermon on Luke 24.13-35 by Garry Deverell\n\n\n\nThe Stranger on the Road of DespairA sermon on Luke 24: 13-35 & 1 Peter 1: 17-23 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThere and Back AgainA sermon on Luke 24:13-35 by Roslyn Wright
URL:https://laughingbird.net/occasion/abc32/2028-04-16/
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SUMMARY:Resurrection Sunday Evening
DESCRIPTION:Below you will find the Bible readings set for this occasion in the Revised Common Lectionary\, with our Australian idiomatic paraphrases of them\, plus prayers and sermons based on them. \n\n\n\nBible Readings (paraphrased)\n\n\n\nLections from The Revised Common Lectionary. Copyright 1992 by the Consultation on Common Texts(CCT) P.O. Box 340003\, Room 381\, Nashville\, TN 37203-0003\, USA. Used with Permission. \n\n\n	\n\n		\n			\n				  Isaiah 25: 6-9			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Every people on earth will be invited to the sacred mountain\nfor the huge party thrown by the LORD who rules over everything.\nIt will be the feast to end all feasts\,\nwith the very finest of foods and wines:\nchoice meats\, wines aged to perfection\,\ngourmet delicacies to make every mouth water! \nAnd right here on this sacred mountain\nthe LORD will tear off the pall of death\nand release the nations from the coffin that held them.\nThe LORD will swallow up death once and for all. \nWith that\, the Lord GOD will wipe the tears from every eye\,\nand God’s people will no longer be humiliated and despised;\nThe LORD says so and that settles it. \nWhen that happens people will say\,\nWow! This is our God!\nWe hoped\, we waited\, we trusted God to save us.\nAnd our waiting has not been in vain.\nThe LORD has not let us down.\nCelebrate! Sing and dance\,\nfor God has come to our rescue and set us free. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 114			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	When we were led out of the land of slavery\n- the people of Israel\, coming out from under the foreign thumb -\nthe land of Judah became a sacred place\,\nthe land of Israel came under sovereign rule. \nThe wild sea took one look\, and turned tail and ran\,\nthe Jordan river backed off and headed the other way.\nThe mountains skipped like a rock wallaby;\nthe hills were as jumpy as a kelpie pup. \nWhat was it that made the wild sea turn tail?\nWhat was it that made the Jordan back off?\nWhat made the mountains quiver and jump?\nWhat made the hills shudder and shake? \nIt was awe of you\, LORD\, God of our ancestors.\nThe whole earth trembles in your presence.\nFor you are the one who melts rocks into pools of water;\nthe one who brings springs bubbling up from hard baked ground. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  1 Corinthians 5: 6b-8			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	You do realise\, don’t you\, that it only takes a little bit of yeast to leaven a whole batch of bread dough? A little bit of corruption can similarly affect a whole congregation\, so get rid of it. Just as we have traditionally cleaned out every trace of yeast from our homes in preparation for the Passover festival when we use only unleavened bread\, so you should clean the corruption from your midst. You are to be the new batch of unleavened bread. In Christ\, our Paschal lamb has been sacrificed. Now is the time for us to celebrate the festival\, and just as we can’t celebrate it with yeast-leavened bread\, neither can we celebrate it with the old yeast of inhumanity and evil. We celebrate this festival with the unleavened bread of truth and integrity. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Luke 24: 13-49			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	In the afternoon of the day that the tomb had been found empty\, a couple who had been followers of Jesus were heading back home to the small town called Emmaus. As they walked the ten kilometres or so from Jerusalem\, they were talking over everything that had happened in the past few days. Along the way\, Jesus himself joined them\, but to their eyes he was just another stranger on the road. He asked them\, “What’s all this you are discussing so intently as you travel?” \nThey pulled up in their tracks and looked at him with long faces. One of them\, a man named Cleopas\, said to him\, “You must be the only stranger in and around Jerusalem who has not caught up with what’s been going on in the last few days.” \n“What has been going on?” Jesus asked. \nThey replied\, “It is all to do with Jesus of Nazareth. He was a prophet whose words and actions electrified the people in the presence of God. The religious and civil authorities had him arrested and then pushed for the death penalty. They got their way and he was executed. We’d had our hopes pinned on him being the one who would set Israel back in its rightful place. It’s all been over for three days now. A strange twist has rocked us all today\, though. Some women from our group apparently went to the tomb first thing this morning and couldn’t find his body. They came back and told the rest of us that they had seen a vision of angels who said that Jesus was alive. We sent a group down to check out their story\, and they found things just the way the women had said\, but there was no sign of Jesus anywhere.” \nWhen they had finished filling him in\, Jesus said to them\, “What a thick-headed pair you are! Why are you so slow to get your heads and your hearts around everything that the prophets spelled out?! Hasn’t it always been the case that the Messiah would have to cop all this suffering before getting in on the glory that was in store for him?” \nJesus spent the rest of their journey explaining the scriptures to them. Passage by passage\, he showed them what Moses and the prophets had said about him. \nWhen they reached the turn-off to the town they were heading for\, Jesus appeared set to push on up the highway\, but they put the hard word on him to stop at their place overnight since the sun was going down and the day was almost over. So he accepted their offer of hospitality and went home with them. When he sat down to the evening meal with them\, he picked up a loaf of bread\, gave thanks\, broke it\, and gave it to them. Suddenly their eyes were opened and they realised who he was; and just as suddenly he disappeared from sight. They looked at one another and said\, “No wonder there was such a fire burning in our guts when he was explaining the scriptures to us on the road!” \nSo\, without a moment’s delay\, they were on their feet and hurrying back to Jerusalem to tell the news to the eleven and the rest of the crew. When they found them\, they were all together and abuzz with news: “The Lord really has risen! He has appeared to Simon Peter!” \nThe couple from Emmaus filled them all in on what had happened on the road\, and how it had dawned on them who he was when the bread had been broken. \nWhile they were talking about all this\, Jesus himself suddenly appeared\, standing among them. “Greetings!” he said\, “Peace be with you.” \nTaken by surprise\, they thought he was a ghost\, and were scared spitless. Jesus said to them\, “What have you got to be afraid of? Why are you letting your doubts get the better of you? Here\, take a look at my hands and feet. See for yourselves that it really is me. Reach out and touch me and you will know that I am made of flesh and bone. No ghost can claim that!” \nAs he spoke\, he showed them his hands and feet. It all seemed too good to be true; so wonderful that they couldn’t believe their eyes. Their heads were bursting with joy and disbelief! Jesus asked them\, “Have you got anything here I can eat?” \nThey gave him a piece of grilled fish and he took it and ate it in front of them. Then he said to them\, “The things I have said while I was with you amount to this: everything written about me in the law of Moses\, the prophets\, and the psalms is to be fulfilled.”  \nAs he spoke they began to see how to read the scriptures with open minds so as to understand what God was saying in them. Jesus said to them: \n“What was written will now be clear to you: that the Messiah is to suffer and then rise from the dead on the third day. It was also written that the people of every nation must be told of the Messiah’s call to turn their lives around and receive forgiveness for their toxic ways. You can get started here in Jerusalem. You have witnessed these things first hand\, so you can tell everyone what you have seen and heard. And don’t miss this: I myself am sending you the gift that my Father promised\, so wait here in the city until you have been fitted out with God’s power.”  \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n	\n\n\n\nPrayers\n\n\n	\n\n		\n			\n				  Eucharistic Preface			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Let us lift up our hearts.\nWe lift them to the Lord.\nLet us give thanks to the Lord our God.\nIt is right to give our thanks and praise. \nIt is indeed right to give you our thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor you have raised Jesus Christ to life\nand destroyed the shroud of death that covered all people. \nYou made the earth\, and it trembles in your presence;\nyou rescued your people from slavery\,\nleading them through the deep waters\nfrom death to life. \nYou sent your Son\, Jesus\, to us\,\na prophet mighty in word and deed\nwho taught us to celebrate your salvation\nin sincerity and truth.\nThough he was condemned to death\nand crucified by the religious\,\nyou raised him from the dead\nand wiped the tears from our faces.\nRisen indeed\, he is with us always\,\nbreathing his peace over our fears\nand spreading a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Short Preface (for insertion into Eucharistic prayers with fixed prefaces)			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	We give thanks for your Risen Son\, Jesus Christ\,\nwho breathes his peace over our fears\nand spreads a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  General Prayer of Thanksgiving			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	(Preface reformatted for use apart from communion)\n\nWe give you all thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor you have raised Jesus Christ to life\nand destroyed the shroud of death that covered all people. \nYou made the earth\, and it trembles in your presence;\nyou rescued your people from slavery\,\nleading them through the deep waters\nfrom death to life. \nYou sent your Son\, Jesus\, to us\,\na prophet mighty in word and deed\nwho taught us to celebrate your salvation\nin sincerity and truth.\nThough he was condemned to death\nand crucified by the religious\,\nyou raised him from the dead\nand wiped the tears from our faces.\nRisen indeed\, he is with us always\,\nbreathing his peace over our fears\nand spreading a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \nTherefore\, with our hearts lifted high\,\nwe offer you thanks and praise at all times\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord\,\nwho lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, for ever and ever.\nAmen. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Declaration of Grace / Absolution			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	As the scriptures said\,\nthe Messiah suffered and rose from the dead on the third day\,\nso that repentance and forgiveness of sins\nmight be proclaimed in his name to all nations. \nSisters and Brothers\,\n  your sins are forgiven;\n    be at peace. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Commission & Benediction			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Go now as witnesses of God’s victory over evil and death.\nThe risen Christ has made himself known to you\nin the breaking of bread\,\nso clean out the old yeast of malice and evil\nand live as the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. \nAnd may God wipe every tear from your faces;\nMay Christ Jesus make himself known to you in all things;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit open your eyes\nand set your hearts on fire with love. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n	\n\n\n\nSermons\n\n\n\nSermons will open in new tabs from our SYCBaps church website. \n\n\n\n\nCan’t see the wood for the treesA sermon on Luke 24: 13-35 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nOpen Minds and Narrow ThinkingA sermon on Luke 24:36b-48 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nEaster in OrdinaryA sermon on Luke 24.13-35 by Garry Deverell\n\n\n\nThe Stranger on the Road of DespairA sermon on Luke 24: 13-35 & 1 Peter 1: 17-23 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThere and Back AgainA sermon on Luke 24:13-35 by Roslyn Wright
URL:https://laughingbird.net/occasion/abc32/2029-04-01/
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SUMMARY:Resurrection Sunday Evening
DESCRIPTION:Below you will find the Bible readings set for this occasion in the Revised Common Lectionary\, with our Australian idiomatic paraphrases of them\, plus prayers and sermons based on them. \n\n\n\nBible Readings (paraphrased)\n\n\n\nLections from The Revised Common Lectionary. Copyright 1992 by the Consultation on Common Texts(CCT) P.O. Box 340003\, Room 381\, Nashville\, TN 37203-0003\, USA. Used with Permission. \n\n\n	\n\n		\n			\n				  Isaiah 25: 6-9			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Every people on earth will be invited to the sacred mountain\nfor the huge party thrown by the LORD who rules over everything.\nIt will be the feast to end all feasts\,\nwith the very finest of foods and wines:\nchoice meats\, wines aged to perfection\,\ngourmet delicacies to make every mouth water! \nAnd right here on this sacred mountain\nthe LORD will tear off the pall of death\nand release the nations from the coffin that held them.\nThe LORD will swallow up death once and for all. \nWith that\, the Lord GOD will wipe the tears from every eye\,\nand God’s people will no longer be humiliated and despised;\nThe LORD says so and that settles it. \nWhen that happens people will say\,\nWow! This is our God!\nWe hoped\, we waited\, we trusted God to save us.\nAnd our waiting has not been in vain.\nThe LORD has not let us down.\nCelebrate! Sing and dance\,\nfor God has come to our rescue and set us free. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 114			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	When we were led out of the land of slavery\n- the people of Israel\, coming out from under the foreign thumb -\nthe land of Judah became a sacred place\,\nthe land of Israel came under sovereign rule. \nThe wild sea took one look\, and turned tail and ran\,\nthe Jordan river backed off and headed the other way.\nThe mountains skipped like a rock wallaby;\nthe hills were as jumpy as a kelpie pup. \nWhat was it that made the wild sea turn tail?\nWhat was it that made the Jordan back off?\nWhat made the mountains quiver and jump?\nWhat made the hills shudder and shake? \nIt was awe of you\, LORD\, God of our ancestors.\nThe whole earth trembles in your presence.\nFor you are the one who melts rocks into pools of water;\nthe one who brings springs bubbling up from hard baked ground. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  1 Corinthians 5: 6b-8			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	You do realise\, don’t you\, that it only takes a little bit of yeast to leaven a whole batch of bread dough? A little bit of corruption can similarly affect a whole congregation\, so get rid of it. Just as we have traditionally cleaned out every trace of yeast from our homes in preparation for the Passover festival when we use only unleavened bread\, so you should clean the corruption from your midst. You are to be the new batch of unleavened bread. In Christ\, our Paschal lamb has been sacrificed. Now is the time for us to celebrate the festival\, and just as we can’t celebrate it with yeast-leavened bread\, neither can we celebrate it with the old yeast of inhumanity and evil. We celebrate this festival with the unleavened bread of truth and integrity. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Luke 24: 13-49			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	In the afternoon of the day that the tomb had been found empty\, a couple who had been followers of Jesus were heading back home to the small town called Emmaus. As they walked the ten kilometres or so from Jerusalem\, they were talking over everything that had happened in the past few days. Along the way\, Jesus himself joined them\, but to their eyes he was just another stranger on the road. He asked them\, “What’s all this you are discussing so intently as you travel?” \nThey pulled up in their tracks and looked at him with long faces. One of them\, a man named Cleopas\, said to him\, “You must be the only stranger in and around Jerusalem who has not caught up with what’s been going on in the last few days.” \n“What has been going on?” Jesus asked. \nThey replied\, “It is all to do with Jesus of Nazareth. He was a prophet whose words and actions electrified the people in the presence of God. The religious and civil authorities had him arrested and then pushed for the death penalty. They got their way and he was executed. We’d had our hopes pinned on him being the one who would set Israel back in its rightful place. It’s all been over for three days now. A strange twist has rocked us all today\, though. Some women from our group apparently went to the tomb first thing this morning and couldn’t find his body. They came back and told the rest of us that they had seen a vision of angels who said that Jesus was alive. We sent a group down to check out their story\, and they found things just the way the women had said\, but there was no sign of Jesus anywhere.” \nWhen they had finished filling him in\, Jesus said to them\, “What a thick-headed pair you are! Why are you so slow to get your heads and your hearts around everything that the prophets spelled out?! Hasn’t it always been the case that the Messiah would have to cop all this suffering before getting in on the glory that was in store for him?” \nJesus spent the rest of their journey explaining the scriptures to them. Passage by passage\, he showed them what Moses and the prophets had said about him. \nWhen they reached the turn-off to the town they were heading for\, Jesus appeared set to push on up the highway\, but they put the hard word on him to stop at their place overnight since the sun was going down and the day was almost over. So he accepted their offer of hospitality and went home with them. When he sat down to the evening meal with them\, he picked up a loaf of bread\, gave thanks\, broke it\, and gave it to them. Suddenly their eyes were opened and they realised who he was; and just as suddenly he disappeared from sight. They looked at one another and said\, “No wonder there was such a fire burning in our guts when he was explaining the scriptures to us on the road!” \nSo\, without a moment’s delay\, they were on their feet and hurrying back to Jerusalem to tell the news to the eleven and the rest of the crew. When they found them\, they were all together and abuzz with news: “The Lord really has risen! He has appeared to Simon Peter!” \nThe couple from Emmaus filled them all in on what had happened on the road\, and how it had dawned on them who he was when the bread had been broken. \nWhile they were talking about all this\, Jesus himself suddenly appeared\, standing among them. “Greetings!” he said\, “Peace be with you.” \nTaken by surprise\, they thought he was a ghost\, and were scared spitless. Jesus said to them\, “What have you got to be afraid of? Why are you letting your doubts get the better of you? Here\, take a look at my hands and feet. See for yourselves that it really is me. Reach out and touch me and you will know that I am made of flesh and bone. No ghost can claim that!” \nAs he spoke\, he showed them his hands and feet. It all seemed too good to be true; so wonderful that they couldn’t believe their eyes. Their heads were bursting with joy and disbelief! Jesus asked them\, “Have you got anything here I can eat?” \nThey gave him a piece of grilled fish and he took it and ate it in front of them. Then he said to them\, “The things I have said while I was with you amount to this: everything written about me in the law of Moses\, the prophets\, and the psalms is to be fulfilled.”  \nAs he spoke they began to see how to read the scriptures with open minds so as to understand what God was saying in them. Jesus said to them: \n“What was written will now be clear to you: that the Messiah is to suffer and then rise from the dead on the third day. It was also written that the people of every nation must be told of the Messiah’s call to turn their lives around and receive forgiveness for their toxic ways. You can get started here in Jerusalem. You have witnessed these things first hand\, so you can tell everyone what you have seen and heard. And don’t miss this: I myself am sending you the gift that my Father promised\, so wait here in the city until you have been fitted out with God’s power.”  \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n	\n\n\n\nPrayers\n\n\n	\n\n		\n			\n				  Eucharistic Preface			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Let us lift up our hearts.\nWe lift them to the Lord.\nLet us give thanks to the Lord our God.\nIt is right to give our thanks and praise. \nIt is indeed right to give you our thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor you have raised Jesus Christ to life\nand destroyed the shroud of death that covered all people. \nYou made the earth\, and it trembles in your presence;\nyou rescued your people from slavery\,\nleading them through the deep waters\nfrom death to life. \nYou sent your Son\, Jesus\, to us\,\na prophet mighty in word and deed\nwho taught us to celebrate your salvation\nin sincerity and truth.\nThough he was condemned to death\nand crucified by the religious\,\nyou raised him from the dead\nand wiped the tears from our faces.\nRisen indeed\, he is with us always\,\nbreathing his peace over our fears\nand spreading a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Short Preface (for insertion into Eucharistic prayers with fixed prefaces)			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	We give thanks for your Risen Son\, Jesus Christ\,\nwho breathes his peace over our fears\nand spreads a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  General Prayer of Thanksgiving			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	(Preface reformatted for use apart from communion)\n\nWe give you all thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor you have raised Jesus Christ to life\nand destroyed the shroud of death that covered all people. \nYou made the earth\, and it trembles in your presence;\nyou rescued your people from slavery\,\nleading them through the deep waters\nfrom death to life. \nYou sent your Son\, Jesus\, to us\,\na prophet mighty in word and deed\nwho taught us to celebrate your salvation\nin sincerity and truth.\nThough he was condemned to death\nand crucified by the religious\,\nyou raised him from the dead\nand wiped the tears from our faces.\nRisen indeed\, he is with us always\,\nbreathing his peace over our fears\nand spreading a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \nTherefore\, with our hearts lifted high\,\nwe offer you thanks and praise at all times\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord\,\nwho lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, for ever and ever.\nAmen. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Declaration of Grace / Absolution			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	As the scriptures said\,\nthe Messiah suffered and rose from the dead on the third day\,\nso that repentance and forgiveness of sins\nmight be proclaimed in his name to all nations. \nSisters and Brothers\,\n  your sins are forgiven;\n    be at peace. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Commission & Benediction			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Go now as witnesses of God’s victory over evil and death.\nThe risen Christ has made himself known to you\nin the breaking of bread\,\nso clean out the old yeast of malice and evil\nand live as the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. \nAnd may God wipe every tear from your faces;\nMay Christ Jesus make himself known to you in all things;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit open your eyes\nand set your hearts on fire with love. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n	\n\n\n\nSermons\n\n\n\nSermons will open in new tabs from our SYCBaps church website. \n\n\n\n\nCan’t see the wood for the treesA sermon on Luke 24: 13-35 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nOpen Minds and Narrow ThinkingA sermon on Luke 24:36b-48 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nEaster in OrdinaryA sermon on Luke 24.13-35 by Garry Deverell\n\n\n\nThe Stranger on the Road of DespairA sermon on Luke 24: 13-35 & 1 Peter 1: 17-23 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThere and Back AgainA sermon on Luke 24:13-35 by Roslyn Wright
URL:https://laughingbird.net/occasion/abc32/2030-04-21/
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SUMMARY:Resurrection Sunday Evening
DESCRIPTION:Below you will find the Bible readings set for this occasion in the Revised Common Lectionary\, with our Australian idiomatic paraphrases of them\, plus prayers and sermons based on them. \n\n\n\nBible Readings (paraphrased)\n\n\n\nLections from The Revised Common Lectionary. Copyright 1992 by the Consultation on Common Texts(CCT) P.O. Box 340003\, Room 381\, Nashville\, TN 37203-0003\, USA. Used with Permission. \n\n\n	\n\n		\n			\n				  Isaiah 25: 6-9			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Every people on earth will be invited to the sacred mountain\nfor the huge party thrown by the LORD who rules over everything.\nIt will be the feast to end all feasts\,\nwith the very finest of foods and wines:\nchoice meats\, wines aged to perfection\,\ngourmet delicacies to make every mouth water! \nAnd right here on this sacred mountain\nthe LORD will tear off the pall of death\nand release the nations from the coffin that held them.\nThe LORD will swallow up death once and for all. \nWith that\, the Lord GOD will wipe the tears from every eye\,\nand God’s people will no longer be humiliated and despised;\nThe LORD says so and that settles it. \nWhen that happens people will say\,\nWow! This is our God!\nWe hoped\, we waited\, we trusted God to save us.\nAnd our waiting has not been in vain.\nThe LORD has not let us down.\nCelebrate! Sing and dance\,\nfor God has come to our rescue and set us free. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Psalm 114			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	When we were led out of the land of slavery\n- the people of Israel\, coming out from under the foreign thumb -\nthe land of Judah became a sacred place\,\nthe land of Israel came under sovereign rule. \nThe wild sea took one look\, and turned tail and ran\,\nthe Jordan river backed off and headed the other way.\nThe mountains skipped like a rock wallaby;\nthe hills were as jumpy as a kelpie pup. \nWhat was it that made the wild sea turn tail?\nWhat was it that made the Jordan back off?\nWhat made the mountains quiver and jump?\nWhat made the hills shudder and shake? \nIt was awe of you\, LORD\, God of our ancestors.\nThe whole earth trembles in your presence.\nFor you are the one who melts rocks into pools of water;\nthe one who brings springs bubbling up from hard baked ground. \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  1 Corinthians 5: 6b-8			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	You do realise\, don’t you\, that it only takes a little bit of yeast to leaven a whole batch of bread dough? A little bit of corruption can similarly affect a whole congregation\, so get rid of it. Just as we have traditionally cleaned out every trace of yeast from our homes in preparation for the Passover festival when we use only unleavened bread\, so you should clean the corruption from your midst. You are to be the new batch of unleavened bread. In Christ\, our Paschal lamb has been sacrificed. Now is the time for us to celebrate the festival\, and just as we can’t celebrate it with yeast-leavened bread\, neither can we celebrate it with the old yeast of inhumanity and evil. We celebrate this festival with the unleavened bread of truth and integrity. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Luke 24: 13-49			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	In the afternoon of the day that the tomb had been found empty\, a couple who had been followers of Jesus were heading back home to the small town called Emmaus. As they walked the ten kilometres or so from Jerusalem\, they were talking over everything that had happened in the past few days. Along the way\, Jesus himself joined them\, but to their eyes he was just another stranger on the road. He asked them\, “What’s all this you are discussing so intently as you travel?” \nThey pulled up in their tracks and looked at him with long faces. One of them\, a man named Cleopas\, said to him\, “You must be the only stranger in and around Jerusalem who has not caught up with what’s been going on in the last few days.” \n“What has been going on?” Jesus asked. \nThey replied\, “It is all to do with Jesus of Nazareth. He was a prophet whose words and actions electrified the people in the presence of God. The religious and civil authorities had him arrested and then pushed for the death penalty. They got their way and he was executed. We’d had our hopes pinned on him being the one who would set Israel back in its rightful place. It’s all been over for three days now. A strange twist has rocked us all today\, though. Some women from our group apparently went to the tomb first thing this morning and couldn’t find his body. They came back and told the rest of us that they had seen a vision of angels who said that Jesus was alive. We sent a group down to check out their story\, and they found things just the way the women had said\, but there was no sign of Jesus anywhere.” \nWhen they had finished filling him in\, Jesus said to them\, “What a thick-headed pair you are! Why are you so slow to get your heads and your hearts around everything that the prophets spelled out?! Hasn’t it always been the case that the Messiah would have to cop all this suffering before getting in on the glory that was in store for him?” \nJesus spent the rest of their journey explaining the scriptures to them. Passage by passage\, he showed them what Moses and the prophets had said about him. \nWhen they reached the turn-off to the town they were heading for\, Jesus appeared set to push on up the highway\, but they put the hard word on him to stop at their place overnight since the sun was going down and the day was almost over. So he accepted their offer of hospitality and went home with them. When he sat down to the evening meal with them\, he picked up a loaf of bread\, gave thanks\, broke it\, and gave it to them. Suddenly their eyes were opened and they realised who he was; and just as suddenly he disappeared from sight. They looked at one another and said\, “No wonder there was such a fire burning in our guts when he was explaining the scriptures to us on the road!” \nSo\, without a moment’s delay\, they were on their feet and hurrying back to Jerusalem to tell the news to the eleven and the rest of the crew. When they found them\, they were all together and abuzz with news: “The Lord really has risen! He has appeared to Simon Peter!” \nThe couple from Emmaus filled them all in on what had happened on the road\, and how it had dawned on them who he was when the bread had been broken. \nWhile they were talking about all this\, Jesus himself suddenly appeared\, standing among them. “Greetings!” he said\, “Peace be with you.” \nTaken by surprise\, they thought he was a ghost\, and were scared spitless. Jesus said to them\, “What have you got to be afraid of? Why are you letting your doubts get the better of you? Here\, take a look at my hands and feet. See for yourselves that it really is me. Reach out and touch me and you will know that I am made of flesh and bone. No ghost can claim that!” \nAs he spoke\, he showed them his hands and feet. It all seemed too good to be true; so wonderful that they couldn’t believe their eyes. Their heads were bursting with joy and disbelief! Jesus asked them\, “Have you got anything here I can eat?” \nThey gave him a piece of grilled fish and he took it and ate it in front of them. Then he said to them\, “The things I have said while I was with you amount to this: everything written about me in the law of Moses\, the prophets\, and the psalms is to be fulfilled.”  \nAs he spoke they began to see how to read the scriptures with open minds so as to understand what God was saying in them. Jesus said to them: \n“What was written will now be clear to you: that the Messiah is to suffer and then rise from the dead on the third day. It was also written that the people of every nation must be told of the Messiah’s call to turn their lives around and receive forgiveness for their toxic ways. You can get started here in Jerusalem. You have witnessed these things first hand\, so you can tell everyone what you have seen and heard. And don’t miss this: I myself am sending you the gift that my Father promised\, so wait here in the city until you have been fitted out with God’s power.”  \n©2002 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n	\n\n\n\nPrayers\n\n\n	\n\n		\n			\n				  Eucharistic Preface			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Let us lift up our hearts.\nWe lift them to the Lord.\nLet us give thanks to the Lord our God.\nIt is right to give our thanks and praise. \nIt is indeed right to give you our thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor you have raised Jesus Christ to life\nand destroyed the shroud of death that covered all people. \nYou made the earth\, and it trembles in your presence;\nyou rescued your people from slavery\,\nleading them through the deep waters\nfrom death to life. \nYou sent your Son\, Jesus\, to us\,\na prophet mighty in word and deed\nwho taught us to celebrate your salvation\nin sincerity and truth.\nThough he was condemned to death\nand crucified by the religious\,\nyou raised him from the dead\nand wiped the tears from our faces.\nRisen indeed\, he is with us always\,\nbreathing his peace over our fears\nand spreading a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \nTherefore with ..... \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Short Preface (for insertion into Eucharistic prayers with fixed prefaces)			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	We give thanks for your Risen Son\, Jesus Christ\,\nwho breathes his peace over our fears\nand spreads a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  General Prayer of Thanksgiving			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	(Preface reformatted for use apart from communion)\n\nWe give you all thanks and praise\, O God\,\nfor you have raised Jesus Christ to life\nand destroyed the shroud of death that covered all people. \nYou made the earth\, and it trembles in your presence;\nyou rescued your people from slavery\,\nleading them through the deep waters\nfrom death to life. \nYou sent your Son\, Jesus\, to us\,\na prophet mighty in word and deed\nwho taught us to celebrate your salvation\nin sincerity and truth.\nThough he was condemned to death\nand crucified by the religious\,\nyou raised him from the dead\nand wiped the tears from our faces.\nRisen indeed\, he is with us always\,\nbreathing his peace over our fears\nand spreading a rich banquet before us\nso that in the breaking of bread\nand your word proclaimed\,\nour eyes might be opened\nand our hearts set on fire with love. \nTherefore\, with our hearts lifted high\,\nwe offer you thanks and praise at all times\nthrough Jesus Christ our Lord\,\nwho lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit\,\none God\, for ever and ever.\nAmen. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Declaration of Grace / Absolution			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	As the scriptures said\,\nthe Messiah suffered and rose from the dead on the third day\,\nso that repentance and forgiveness of sins\nmight be proclaimed in his name to all nations. \nSisters and Brothers\,\n  your sins are forgiven;\n    be at peace. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n		\n\n		\n			\n				  Commission & Benediction			\n		\n\n		\n		 \n \n	Go now as witnesses of God’s victory over evil and death.\nThe risen Christ has made himself known to you\nin the breaking of bread\,\nso clean out the old yeast of malice and evil\nand live as the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. \nAnd may God wipe every tear from your faces;\nMay Christ Jesus make himself known to you in all things;\nAnd may the Holy Spirit open your eyes\nand set your hearts on fire with love. \nWe go in peace to love and serve the Lord\,\n   In the name of Christ. Amen. \n©2003 Nathan Nettleton LaughingBird.net \n\n\n			\n	\n	\n\n\n\nSermons\n\n\n\nSermons will open in new tabs from our SYCBaps church website. \n\n\n\n\nCan’t see the wood for the treesA sermon on Luke 24: 13-35 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nOpen Minds and Narrow ThinkingA sermon on Luke 24:36b-48 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nEaster in OrdinaryA sermon on Luke 24.13-35 by Garry Deverell\n\n\n\nThe Stranger on the Road of DespairA sermon on Luke 24: 13-35 & 1 Peter 1: 17-23 by Nathan Nettleton\n\n\n\nThere and Back AgainA sermon on Luke 24:13-35 by Roslyn Wright
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