Sunday April 27, 2025

Prelude
Announcements
Opening Hymn – #369 Blessed Assurance (3 verses)
Opening Prayer
1st Scripture Reading – John 20:19-31
Baptism – Elliot Lynn Mauldin
Children’s Time
Joys & Concerns / Pastoral Prayer / Lord’s Prayer
Hymn – #706 Soon and Very Soon (3 verses)
Mission & Ministry Moment – Parking Lot Entrance Doors
Loving the Wider World through Our Giving (Doxology #95)
2nd Scripture Reading – Revelation 1:1-8
Pastor’s Message “So May It Be” – Pastor Devin
Praise Music – “Revelation Song”
Benediction
Postlude

1st Scripture Reading – John 20:19-31
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
19When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors were locked where
the disciples were, 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.”
Jesus and Thomas
24 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.”
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.”
The Purpose of This Book
30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this
book. 31 But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the
Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.

2nd Scripture Reading – Revelation 1:1-8
Introduction and Salutation
1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take
place, and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who testified to the
word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.
3 Blessed is the one who reads the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and
who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.
4
John to the seven churches that are in Asia:
Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come and from the seven
spirits who are before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of
the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood 6 and made us a kingdom, priests
serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
7 Look! He is coming with the clouds;
every eye will see him,
even those who pierced him,
and all the tribes of the earth will wail on account of him.
So it is to be. Amen.
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come,
the Almighty.