Welcome and Greeting Rev. Dan Schumacher If you are visiting FBC this morning, or would like more information about the church and our programs, please pick up a Welcome Packet at one of the entrances.
Lighting of the Christ Candle The Smith/Wood Family
Gathering Praise “What A Beautiful Name” Benson Boone
Celebration of Baptism Maekayla Trujillo
Congregational Hymn #452 “Come, Holy Spirit, Dove Divine” MARYTON
Invocation and Lord’s Prayer Rev. Dan Schumacher 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Musical Offering “He’s Always Been Faithful” Sara Groves Angela Dixon, violin
Scripture Reading Mark 4:26-34 (NRSV) Rev. Katie Suddeth He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.” He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.
Hymn of Response #262 “I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord” ST. THOMAS
Benediction Rev. Dan Schumacher
Postlude “The Bond of Love” Skillings
WORSHIP NOTES: EASTERTIDE Easter is the principal and most ancient festival of the Christian Church year. Following the death and burial of Jesus and his resurrection, there was a renewal of the very life of Jesus Christ in the fellowship of the believers in the early Church. Eastertide is the season continuing through to Pentecost (Sunday, May 19 this year). Each Sunday is a celebration of the resurrection of Christ and is intended to be a mini-Easter!