2023-05-14 — Our Hope In Christ – It Is The Basis For Suffering

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Church Year: Easter 6:
Date: May 14, 2023

Theme: Our Hope In Christ – It Is The Basis For Suffering

1. We might suffer for Christ and His good deed
2. Christ did suffer for us and our evil deeds

– 1 Peter 3:15-18

– Pastor: John Hein

Bulletin: Bulletin

Liturgy: WS, p. 12 ff.

Hymns:

TLH 190 : Christ the Lord is Risen Again Hymnary.org link
TLH 346 : Jesus! and Shall it ever Be Hymnary.org link
TLH 501 : Soldiers of the Cross, Arise Hymnary.org link
WS 769 : Lift High the Cross Hymnary.org link

Scripture Readings:

Acts 17:22-31 John 14:15-21

Theme: Our Hope In Christ – It Is The Basis For Suffering

1. We might suffer for Christ and His good deed
2. Christ did suffer for us and our evil deeds

1 Peter 3:15–18 (Listen)

15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, 16 having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

(ESV)