Prelude: “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” Setting by John Carter from anonymous tune Closer Walk
Welcome and Announcements: Debbie Smith
Call to Worship and Invocation
Praise and Worship with Chandru Muthurajan
Hymn: “Love Divine, All Love Excelling”
- Love divine, all loves excelling,
Joy of Heav’n to earth come
down;
Fix in us thy humble dwelling;
All thy faithful mercies crown!
Jesus, Thou art all compassion,
Pure unbounded love Thou art;
Visit us with Thy salvation,
Enter every trembling heart. - Breathe, O breathe Thy loving
Spirit
Into every troubled breast!
Let us all in Thee inherit;
Let us find that second rest.
Take away our bent to sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
End of faith, as its beginning,
Set our hearts at liberty. - Come, Almighty to deliver,
Let us all Thy life receive;
Suddenly return, and never,
Nevermore Thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always
blessing,
Serve Thee as Thy hosts above,
Pray and praise Thee without
ceasing,
Glory in Thy perfect love. - Finish, then, Thy new creation;
Pure and spotless let us be;
Let us see Thy great salvation
Perfectly restored in Thee;
Changed from glory into glory,
Till in Heav’n we take our place,
Till we cast our crowns before
Thee,
Lost in wonder, love, and praise.
Offertory Prayer
Moments of Prayer
Choir Anthem: “Heavenly Sunlight”
Choir Director: Richard Freeman
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:35-50
Sermon: “The Final Transformation by Minister Miranda Kwon
Hymn: “Because He Lives”
God sent His son, they called Him Jesus;
He came to love, heal and forgive;
He lived and died to buy my pardon,
An empty grave is there to prove my
Savior lives!
Chorus
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow,
Because He lives, all fear is gone;
Because I know He holds the future,
And life is worth the living,
Just because He lives!
How sweet to hold a newborn baby,
And feel the pride and joy he gives;
But greater still the calm assurance:
This child can face uncertain days
because He Lives!—-Chorus
And then one day, I’ll cross the river,
I’ll fight life’s final war with pain;
And then, as death gives way to victory,
I’ll see the lights of glory and I’ll know He
lives! — Chorus
Benediction
Postlude: “Rejoice, the Lord is King” by John Darwall, arranged by Nancy L. Smith
Pianist: Marilyn Glover
We Welcome Minister Miranda Kwon to the pulpit today. Miranda is an immigrant from South Korea and currently pursuing a Th. M. in Biblical Studies while seeking to be ordained in American Baptist Church, USA.
Growing up in a non-Christian family, she studied music at New England Conservatory of Music (B.M.) in Hartt School, University of Hartford (M.M.). Then she studied Computer Science (B.S.) in Connecticut State University and worked as a Programmer/Analyst in Connecticut.
After becoming a Christian, she went back to Korea and served in an international ministry in Seoul for seven years. She then came back to Massachusetts to study at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div., 2020). Miranda is a member of First Baptist Church, Melrose and has the Pre-Ordination License to preach. She is married to Woei Wang.