Notices
Opening Hymn: All Hail The Power
Sentence of the Day
Collect of the Day
Lesson: Acts 3:12-19
Epistle: 1 John 3:1-7
Gradual Hymn: O Love That Will Not Let Me Go
Gospel: Luke 24:36b-48
Sermon
Prayers & Intercessions
Anthem: If Ye Love Me - Tallis
Closing Hymn: To God Be The Glory
Fisherfolk Newsletter & Pew Sheet for Sunday April 14
Turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.
Acts 3:19-20
Lord, help us to see:
to see what is eternally good and true,
and having seen, to go on searching
until we come to the joys of heaven.
This we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
12When Peter saw this, he said to them: “Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? 13The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go. 14You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. 15You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this. 16By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.
17“Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. 18But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer. 19Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.
1See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
4Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
7Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
36Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
37They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. 38He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? 39Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
40When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43and he took it and ate it in their presence.
44He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”
45Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48You are witnesses of these things.
The resurrection of Jesus throws the gates wide open, so that all may be welcomed into the presence of God.
As our first reading today, from Acts 3, we heard part of a speech Peter makes to his fellow Israelites in response to one manifestation of this resurrection work.
A man who had been born lame is placed every day at one of the gates to the temple, a gate called Beautiful. He isn’t there to pray: he is there so that he can beg for money from those going through the gate into the temple courts to pray. I find it difficult to imagine what life must have been like for him. He has had to learn to cope with his physical deformity, which is so severe that he has to enlist the help of relatives or friends to carry him around... Read more...
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