Dawn in the Garden
Worship Service, April 5, 2026

1. Please take a moment to download the sermon notes (https://bit.ly/ER260405) for this week.
2. Prepare the elements of “bread” and “wine” for use as we gather around The Lord’s Table. These can be any items convenient around the home that symbolize these for you.

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Sermon Scripture: John 20:1-18

We are very familiar with death, but sometimes we are caught off guard by life, if we notice it at all. And that is exactly where the story of Easter begins. It begins in the shadow of Good Friday, still in the dark hours, in a garden before dawn, with a woman carrying burial spices toward a grave, doing the thing grief usually prompts us to do: stay busy. But she is in store for a miraculous surprise.

For seventeen centuries, the church has celebrated Easter with arms flung wide, calling everyone in, and the story we gather to tell is one we continue to admit we have not fully absorbed.

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Music used under CCLI license #1808339, CCLI streaming license #20401862
Performed by Emmaus Road Worship Team

Heaven’s Voice Brings The Dawn
CCLI #7157373 | Joel Payne and Matt Weeks

The Passion
CCLI #7102399 | Brooke Ligertwood, Chris Davenport, and Scott Ligertwood

Christ Is Risen
CCLI #5242683 | Mia Fieldes and Matt Maher

How Great Thou Art
CCLI #14181 | Stuart Wesley Keene Hine, arr. by Charlie Hall