The Barefoot Evangelist

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer We are God’s church. We come together in worship. We are followers of Christ. We come together to learn from his words. We are joined together by the Spirit. We come together to celebrate. God has freed us from our past. We come together to move forward. We are…

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer Easter is not an event that has occurred, it is an adventure that has begun. Not a place that we have visited, but a path on which we stand. The Resurrection story is not complete, but unfolding. Characters still breathing, stations still teeming with the promise of new life,…

Christ is risen! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer Lord Jesus Christ, on the second Sunday of Easter,the light of Your love shines on!Your light has come into the world, and neither darkness, nor evil, nor even death itself could overcome it. And we (like Mary, like the disciples, like “doubting” Thomas) who have been there with You through Holy…

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Hallelujah!! Opening Prayer The tomb is dark, but empty. The one we are looking for has overcome the darkness The stone has been rolled away. The one we are looking for has overcome death The burial clothes are put aside. The one we are looking for is alive!…

Children’s Time guards at the tomb Scripture   Gospel of matthew 27:57 That evening a rich disciple named Joseph from the town of Arimathea 58 went and asked for Jesus’ body. Pilate gave orders for it to be given to Joseph, 59 who took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth. 60 Then Joseph put the body in his…

Children’s Time Jesus dies Scripture   Gospel of matthew 27:11 Jesus was brought before Pilate the governor, who asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” “Those are your words!” Jesus answered. 12 And when the chief priests and leaders brought their charges against him, he did not say a thing. 13 Pilate asked him, “Don’t you hear…

Children’s Time Jesus’ last meal with his friends Scripture   Gospel of matthew 26:17 On the first day of the Festival of Thin Bread, Jesus’ disciples came to him and asked, “Where do you want us to prepare the Passover meal?” 18 Jesus told them to go to a certain man in the city and tell him,…

Children’s Time Judas Scripture   Gospel of matthew 26:14 Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples. He went to the chief priests 15 and asked, “How much will you give me if I help you arrest Jesus?” They paid Judas thirty silver coins, 16 and from then on he started looking for a good chance to betray Jesus. 23 He answered,…