This is the 9:00 version with the Sanctuary Singers, and I think based on microphone positioning, and smaller adult ensemble, the children are more obviously part of this.  Goose bump to me, I know how long this dream has been nurtured at Hilltop and what kind of potential fruitfulness exists with this ministry.  

Acts 6: 1-7.  Spiritual Gifts.  

Five young ladies -- our Youth Choir ... plus friends with our Youth Bells.  Three of them.  

Our focus was on ministry to children, and this just worked.  

Various ensembles and congregational singing at Hilltop on Easter Sunday.  

Easter Sunday Anthem - Born to Die.  

This is the 9:00 Service at Hilltop.  I am indebted to David Watson and N. T. Wright for good quotes here.  

The sermon is on the Luke 18: 35 to 19: 10.  I am not 100% sure why we read the passage before except maybe for the forecast of Calvary.  I used this as an opportunity to review where we had been over the earlier four weeks and try, key word - try, to put a cherry on top of those four reflections.  

This is from the 10:30 AM Service at Hilltop on April 2, 2017.  Roberta Shimensky is the accompanist.  

My take on this episode is that it is about privilege.  How do we leave it behind us?  Part of it is that we need to see those around us who are in need.  I do hope that Father Abraham is incorrect in that we can indeed understand God's message by listening to one who has returned from the dead.