April 29, 2007 - 4th Sunday of Easter
SERMON TITLE:
“What Funerals Are Really About”
OPENING PRAYER
Almighty God, through your
only Son you overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life. Grant that we
who celebrate our Lord’s resurrection may, by the renewing of your Spirit, arise from
the death of sin to the life of righteousness; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
SCRIPTURE:
Acts 9:36-43
Now in Joppa there was a disciple whose name
was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity.
At that time she became ill and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in a room
upstairs. Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who heard that Peter was there, sent
two men to him with the request, “Please come to us without delay.” So Peter got
up and went with them; and when he arrived, they took him to the room upstairs. All the
widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had
made while she was with them. Peter put all of them outside, and then he knelt down and
prayed. He turned to the body and said, “Tabitha, get up.” Then she opened her
eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up. He gave her his hand and helped her up. Then calling
the saints and widows, he showed her to be alive. This became known throughout Joppa, and
many believed in the Lord. Meanwhile he stayed in Joppa for some time with a certain
Simon, a tanner.
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