Fourth Sunday of Easter, May 8, 2022

The Worship of God
10:30 AM • ZOOM & In-Person

Scripture: Psalm 23, Acts 9:36-43
Sermon: An Imperfect Resurrection
Proclaimer: Lindsey Franklin

Worship Guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GSxG6_v5vmFX-Jl8i9xOzvD634KzUESA/view?usp=drivesdk

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8043592475

Fellowship Hall, Chamberlayne Heights UMC
6100 Chamberlayne Rd • Richmond, VA

If you’d rather join by phone, call: (301) 715-8592
Meeting ID: 804 359 2475

We are engaged in hybrid worship – meeting in person as well as connecting virtually via Zoom. For those physically present, masks are optional, per current health guidelines. If this will cause you to be unable to worship, please let Chris know that, as we want everyone to be able to worship with us who desires to. For those present virtually, we will do our best to include you as active participants and not passive observers. And in all things, grace and love.

""Peter fell to his knees and prayed. He said to her, “Tabitha, arise.” Sitting upright, Peter presented her to her friends alive." Acts 9:36-42. Latin root of the word, to rise, means to cultivate, grow into, to elevate, awaken, or incite. Everyone in the city of Joppa loved Tabitha. She was always doing good, helping the poor, and making garments for others. One day Tabitha grew sick and died. Women washed her body, then placed it in an upstairs room. They sent for the apostle Peter, who was nearby in Lydda. Peter uses the power of Christ within. When Jesus ate and drank with a flesh and bone body, he was not bound by the laws of the physical realm. Jesus is the first example of a spirit-man not hindered by any physical existence. We have been promised that when we walk in divine light, we too shall be as he is. Did those who saw them think they were ghosts? Two thousand years ago, people did not understand death in today’s scientific sense. The natural order was accepted as mysterious. Did they think life as they had known it had changed in some profound way?"- Raising Tabitha, Mary Jane Miller

Artwork:

Miller, Mary Jane. Raising Tabitha, 2008, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=59685 [retrieved May 2, 2022]. Original source: https://www.millericons.com/.

Published by GPBC Staff on May 3, 2022May 3, 2022