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Easter Saturday 2021

Mexborough Baptist Church Saturday 3rd April 2021

BIG BEN PRAYER at 12 noon, 29 March - 3 April 2021

All through this hour, 
Lord, be my guide, 
That by thy power 
No foot shall slide. 

Our Holy Week reflection for today is led by Jane and David Horne of Cwmbran Salvation Army, and is entitled 'Lying in wait'. click on the link   

Please read Luke 23:50-56

Easter Saturday is a strange day, a nothing day. All the action and emotion of Friday is over. Sunday is still to come. What is Saturday all about? One way of looking at it is that God rested click on the link 
 
Lord God, on the Sabbath Jesus rested. He was in the grave. He had finished his work.
To most people’s eyes, it looked as if it were all over. He was dead and buried.
But only as a seed dies when it is planted in the earth, not to decay, but to spring to new life.
Teach us to take refuge in you when we are afraid. Teach us that death is not our end.
Teach us to hope always in you and in the resurrection, the making of all things new.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
Rachel Marie Stone  

Please continue to pray for all those on our updates and for the deacons meeting today.

"As a seed dies when it is planted in the earth, not to decay, but to spring to new life." The evidence of the seed's new life is the green shoot emerging from the earth. We sing together 'Now The Green Blade Rises' click on the link   

May God bless you today. Denise  

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