JESUS CAME AND STOOD AMONG THEM AND SAID, PEACE BE WITH YOU. AFTER HE SAID THIS, HE SHOWED THEM HIS HANDS AND HIS SIDE. JOHN 20:19

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1 JESUS CAME AND STOOD AMONG THEM AND SAID, PEACE BE WITH YOU. AFTER HE SAID THIS, HE SHOWED THEM HIS HANDS AND HIS SIDE. JOHN 20:19 Sunday March 27, 2016 Easter! City Church of Honolulu

2 Aloha! Each week at City Church we ask the questions: How do we live truly human lives? Who or what are we living for and giving ourselves to? What resources does the historic Christian faith provide to guide us? We re delighted you are here this morning to explore these questions with us! If you are new to City Church and would like to be updated about upcoming events and opportunities please provide us your contact information by completing a yellow Aloha Card. Or, you may contact us any time at mail@cchnl.org. Sunday Mornings 8:30 am: Prayer Circle (Upper Room) 9:00 am: Bible Study and Discussion 10:00 am: Worship Service 11:30 a.m. Lunch on the Lanai Keiki Club: Children s Worship Nursery and pre-school (to 4 yrs) Keiki room adjacent to our Chapel (opens at 9:00) K-2 Upper Room Weekly Community Groups / Bible Studies Windward Side. Every other Monday 6:00PM, kawikahaglund@gmail.com or nancysomersshaw@gmail.com Tuesdays Together Bible Study 6p.m. dinner/ 7 p.m. study. Prison Letters of Paul pschuler@cchnl.org Fridays: - Men s group (at church office), 6:00-7:00AM, - Women s Group (at CSDA) 9:15-11:00AM Contact Nancy: NancySomersShaw@gmail.com City Church Youth Meets every Sunday morning 9a.m. contact Simposon, simps.tsang@gmail.com or kawikahaglund@gmail.com) Upcoming at City Church Tuesdays Together Bible Study This Tuesday March 29 Tuesdays Together Bible Study This Tuesday March 9 we will be gathering for our weekly Bible Study in the Prison Letters of the Apostle Paul. This week we are focusing on Colossians. 6 pm Potluck Dinner, 7 pm. Study Schuler Hale, 2123 Hunnewell St. Thursdays Out. Every Thursday evening we serve our neighbors through the Palama Parachute Club. Dinner, Games, Bible. 5-7 Palama Settlement. Half Day Art/Prayer Retreat Saturday April a.m. to the Shaw Hale Compassion Sunday Sunday April 24 we will be celebrating Compassion Sunday, focusing on children in need in our neighborhood and around the world. May Day Songs of Faith. Sunday May 1. All ages choir! To Reach Us Staff Paul Schuler, Pastor pschuler@cchnl.org (Cell: ) Kawika Haglund, Community Outreach Intern ( , kawikahaglund@gmail.com) Jenny Haglund, Worship Director ( , frolickinthewaves@gmail.com) Elders Simpson Tsang simps.tsang@gmail.com Jan Dill jedill@pidfoundation.org Mercy Team Lori Ann Tsang loriann752@gmail.com Lucinda Pyles kahalabob@aol.com Office P.O. Box Honolulu, HI mail@cchnl.org

3 Prelude ALMIGHTY GOD Almighty God to you all hearts are open Almighty God to you all hearts are open Search and know our thoughts and anxious fears Wash us in the fountain of your mercy Come with your light, we cannot hide from you Almighty God to you all hearts are open With gratitude we raise our song to you Come and fill the praises of your people In grace and truth, you make us new again Chorus Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah Almighty God to you all hearts are open We long for more than what this world provides No shallow spring will ever satisfy us Your river deep floods over everything (Chorus) SUNDAY MARCH 27, 2016 for the Lord has been good to you. 8 For you, Lord, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, 9 that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living. From Psalm 116 Confession of Sin (In Unison) Almighty God, In raising Jesus from the grave You shattered the power of sin and death. We confess that we remain captive to doubt and fear, bound by the ways that lead to death. Forgive us, God of mercy. Help us to trust your power to change our lives and make us new. Words of Comfort and Assurance of Pardon May the God of love and power Forgive you and free you from your sins, Heal and strengthen you by his Spirit, And raise you to new life Christ our Lord To you all hearts are open, Almighty God (Chorus) Call and Response I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. 2 Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. 3 The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of the grave came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow. 4 Then I called on the name of the Lord: Lord, save me! 5 The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. 6 The Lord protects the unwary; when I was brought low, he saved me. 7 Return to your rest, my soul, CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY WESLEY Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia! Sons of men and angels say, Alleluia! Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia! Sing, ye heav ns, and earth, reply, Alleluia! Love s redeeming work is done, Alleluia! Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia! Death in vain forbids Him rise, Alleluia! Christ hath opened paradise, Alleluia! Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia! Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia! Once He died our souls to save, Alleluia! Where thy victory, O grave? Alleluia! Two

4 Soar we now where Christ hath led, Alleluia! Following our exalted Head, Alleluia! Made like Him, like Him we rise, Alleluia! Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia! SUNDAY MARCH 27, 2016 Scorned by the ones He came to save Till on that cross as Jesus died The wrath of God was satisfied For every sin on Him was laid Here in the death of Christ I live Our Great God Ortega, Powell Eternal God unchanging mysterious and unknown Your boundless love unfailing In grace and mercy shown Bright seraphim in endless flight Around Your glorious throne They raise their voices day and night In praise to You alone Chorus: Hallelujah glory be to our great God Hallelujah glory be to our great God Lord we are weak and frail Helpless in the storm Surround us with Your angels Hold us in Your arms Our cold and ruthless enemy His pleasure is our harm Rise up O Lord and he will flee Before our Sovereign God [chorus] Let every creature in the sea And every flying bird Let every mountain, every field And valley of the earth Let all the moons and all the stars In all the universe Sing praises to the living God Who rules them by His Word [chorus] In Christ Alone Getty, Townsend In Christ alone my hope is found He is my light my strength my song This Cornerstone this solid Ground Firm through the fiercest drought and storm What heights of love what depths of peace When fears are stilled when strivings cease My Comforter my All in All Here in the love of Christ I stand There in the ground His body lay Light of the world by darkness slain Then bursting forth in glorious Day Up from the grave He rose again And as He stands in victory Sin s curse has lost its grip on me For I am His and He is mine Bought with the precious blood of Christ No guilt in life no fear in death This is the power of Christ in me From life s first cry to final breath Jesus commands my destiny No power of hell no scheme of man Can ever pluck me from His hand Till He returns or calls me home Here in the power of Christ I ll stand Praying Together Gloria Patri 2nd century, Digerness Glory be to the Father Glory be to the Son Glory be to the Spirit, Three in One As it was in the beginning It will be forever, Amen Amen, Amen Ohana Announcements Children s Worship Fellowship of the People In Christ alone who took on flesh Fulness of God in helpless babe This gift of love and righteousness Three

5 SUNDAY MARCH 27, 2016 The Gospel of John The Empty Tomb Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him. 3 Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb. 4 The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, 7 and the cloth that had been on Jesus head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; 9 for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples returned to their homes. The Gardener 11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; 12 and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13 They said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him. 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for? Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away. 16 Jesus said to her, Mary! She turned and said to him in Hebrew, Rabbouni! (which means Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her, Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. 18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, I have seen the Lord ; and she told them that he had said these things to her. The Locked House - Part 1 19 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, Peace be with you. 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you. 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained. Four

6 SUNDAY MARCH 27, But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe. The Locked House - Part 2 26 A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, Peace be with you. 27 Then he said to Thomas, Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe. 28 Thomas answered him, My Lord and my God! 29 Jesus said to him, Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe. 30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. 31 But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name. John 20:1-31 Message: Love Wins. (notes) Five

7 SUNDAY MARCH Easter Story (Michael Broderick) Worship Through Our Gifts Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift. 2 Corinthians 9:15 Amazing Grace Watts Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see. Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears relieved; How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed. Benediction Now unto Him who is able to keep us from falling and lift us from the dark valley of despair to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy. To him be power and authority forever and ever. And the blessing of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit be with you now and remain with you always. Amen. Dismissal (In Unison) Let us go forth to serve the world as those who love our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Postlude Through many dangers, toils, and snares I have already come; Tis grace that brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home. When we ve been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We ve no less days to sing God s praise Than when we first begun. Hoʻonani I Ka Makua Mau (Doxology) Hoʻonani i ka Makua mau Ke Keiki me ke ka ʻUhane nō Ke Akua mau, hoʻomaikaʻi pū Ko kēia ao ko kēlā ao. ʻĀmene Six

8 Our Purpose: Together, Living Out the Gospel in the Heart of the City. Seven Core Values Gospel The gospel is the good news that in Jesus life, death and resurrection, God by grace rescues and draws men and women into fellowship with himself and with one another. Through the gospel all creation is restored so that we will enjoy this fellowship forever. Through the gospel God s Kingdom has come and is coming. Therefore we are committed to a life together that is permeated with expectant, enduring, joyful hope. Bible The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are God s inspired, authoritative revelation. All of the scriptures present Christ and the gospel to draw us to worship and make Him known. We are committed to being a learning community, diligently studying all of the scriptures and allowing God to transform all of life. Worshipful In response to the good news of the gospel, we worship God as King and Jesus as Savior and Lord in all of our daily activity. This culminates in coming together on Sunday gathered, renewed and sent out by the Holy Spirit. Prayerful We regularly and expectantly engage in coversation with God, both personally and as a group. We are committed to complete dependence on God in prayer for all of our life and mission together. Missional The Bible is about the mission of God bringing love, peace and justice to a broken world through the work of Christ. Therefore missions is way more than a church department but rather what God and life is all about. We are committed to calling individuals to respond to the gospel in repentance, faith and conversion. We are committed to pointing individuals both locally and globally to Christ by acts of justice and mercy. We use all the gifts and talents given to the church and seek to partner with other like-minded congregations and ministries. International/Inter-Generational The gospel is best expressed and demonstrated through a diverse community who believe, embrace and practice it together. We are committed to ethnic groups, families and generations worshipping and serving together. Hospitable Hospitality is a response of love and gratitude for God s love and welcome to us. As individuals and a church family we are committed to the gracious opening of our hearts, homes and lives to others, especially the needy and strangers. Sunday March City Church of Honolulu