McPhail Weblog April 18 2021

 

McPhail Baptist Church

A Note From Sue: 

I chose this morning’s prelude in recognition of the recent passing of Prince Philip. The

composer, William Harris (1883-1973) served as organist of St. George’s Chapel (Windsor

Castle) from 1933-61. He was involved in the musical education of the teenage Princesses

Elizabeth and Margaret, who spent the wartime period at Windsor Castle. Every Monday he

would direct madrigal practice in the Red Drawing Room at Windsor, where the two Princesses

sang alongside four of the senior choristers with the lower voices augmented by Etonians,

Grenadier Guards and members of the Windsor and Eton Choral Society. The following

“Prelude in G” was written in 1973.

PRELUDE: “Prelude in G”  William Harris

HYMN: “We Come, O Christ, To You” 

 A POST-EASTER PRAYER 

Open our eyes, Lord, for without the gift of your revelation, like those two disciples on the Emmaus road, our eyes are kept from recognizing You. Appear before us, suddenly, unexpectedly, in all your glory, so that we too may proclaim to a world in despair that we have seen the risen Lord.

Lord Jesus Christ, stay with us we pray, in every part of our journey, especially when we struggle with doubt or fear.  And by the power of your Holy Spirit, open our eyes like the eyes of the two Emmaus road disciples were opened, so that we too may see You, risen and alive in our hearts and lives. 

We pray this in the name of the Risen Christ. Amen. 

   

SPECIAL MUSIC: “The Lord Is My Light”  

Terri-Ann Wint

SCRIPTURE READING:

      

John 20:19-29  NIV  

19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus[a]), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!”

But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”

28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

HYMN: “Crown Him With Many Crowns”

SERMON: “EASTER LIVING”

HYMN: “I Then Shall Live”

BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE: “Come O Mighty King” 

  (Healey Willan)