A Sunday-Night Message From Jesus

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The episode discusses the significance of Resurrection night and the fading tradition of Sunday night church services.

Day 88 Today's Reading: John 20 What if Jesus showed up to your Sunday night service today? I know we talk about Resurrection morning, but not many talk about what happened that night. Resurrection night was a huge event for the disciples. I’m afraid if Jesus showed up to one of our twenty-first-century Sunday evening church services, He wouldn’t find many there. And Jesus had an important Sunday-night message for the church. Today we have landed in our 260 journey on John 20. It’s Resurrection day— but not the morning. It’s the evening. Let’s read the passage: When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” (verse 19) The Sunday evening church service is slowly fading out of church life. I grew up in a time when Sunday night service was “the” service to go to. There would be less traditional hymns and more choruses. There were water baptisms, altar calls for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and as a child, the best was that there was always the possibility of an “after glow.” Us “old timers” know that to mean eating…

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Host: The 260 Journey

Topics covered

• Resurrection
• Sunday night service
• Christianity
• Disciples
• Church life

Keywords

• Resurrection
• Jesus
• Sunday night service
• disciples
• church tradition

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Books & works: John 20

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