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April 24, 2011Easter Sunday

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RESBYTERIAN

HURCH

ELCOME

RACE

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We are an historic Presbyterian congregation offering traditional worship and multiple ministries for persons of all ages.

Please join us after worship for fellowship in the Social Room.

Thank you for turning off your cell phones, pagers, cameras, and other electronicdevices during worship, and for leaving food and beverages outside the sanctuary.

Temporary Supply Pastor:

Brint Keyes

Director of Music:

Christopher Martin

Christian Educator:

Kelley Lane

Administrative Assistant:

Vanessa Strait

Bookkeeper:

Martha Rubin

Sexton:

Willie Alford

Child Development Center Director:

Brenda Van Pelt1627 Monument Avenue Office Hours:Richmond, VA 23220 Monday-Friday Phone: 804.359.2463 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.Fax: 804.278.6298 Radio: WLES 590 AM www.grace-covenant.org www.wlesradio.cominfo@grace-covenant.org

Hearing Aids, Large Print Hymnals, and Bulletinsare available each week from the ushers.

REPARATION

FOR

ORSHIP

…[Y]ou have stripped off the old self with its practices

and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of itscreator. In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircum-cised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all!-Colossians 3:9b-11But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look intothe tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had beenlying, one at the head and the other at the feet.

They said to her, “Woman, why areyou weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”

-John 20:11-13It is not at all a question of being better than you were before. The new life meansthat forces for life can now be seen within you, that something of God and of heaven, something holy, can grow in you. It means we can actually see that it is no

longer the sinful desires that have power, but that there is something of Christ’s resur-

rection, something of his life that has power through the Spirit and that leads you to-

ward wholeness…

Again and again Christ arises anew. In what we know of the risen Christ, God wantsto renew all things. His will is for the earth as much as it is for the heavens. Other- wise we would never know his reality. We could never conceive of anything becom-ing different. We would think that his resurrected life was some spiritual thing that we

human beings could not understand. That’s not what it is. No. The power of his

resurrection is something that is within our reach.-Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt