CELEBRATION SUNDAY/HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS

Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soulAnd sings the tune without wordsAnd never stops at all.Emily Dickinson For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen.  And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! 18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.  If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable. ¶ But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. HALLELUJAH!1 Corinthians 15:16-20  ¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 Peter1:3-5TEXT: 1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18SONGS: HOW GREAT THOU ART, HILLSONGMERCY, ELEVATION CHURCHHYMN OF HEAVEN, PHIL WICKAM