Worship Service: https://youtu.be/_oNaAs5e5AM
Flower Memorial: https://youtu.be/g4rS0PH0soE
Prelude Miriam Enman
Leader: Christ is Risen!
People: He is Risen indeed!
Call to Worship From Nancy Townley: posted on ministrymatters.com
Leader: Don’t weep! Don’t mourn! There is great Good News!
People: Christ the Lord is risen today!
Leader: Put away your garments of mourning; let the light of God’s love flood into your lives.
People: Christ the Lord is risen today!
Leader: No more do we have to fear the darkness; it has been overcome by God’s light.
People: Christ the Lord is risen today. ALLELUIA!
Hymn Christ the Lord is Risen Today
Christ the Lord is ris’n today, Alleluia!
All creation, join to say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heav’ns, and earth, reply, Alleluia!
Love’s redeeming work is done, Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids His rise, Alleluia!
Christ hath opened paradise, Alleluia!
Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!
Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!
Once He died our souls to save, Alleluia!
Where thy victory, O grave? Alleluia!
Soar we now where Christ hath led, Alleluia!
Foll’wing our exalted Head, Alleluia!
Made like Him, like Him we rise, Alleluia!
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!
Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
From Lectionary Worship Aids Cycle A by H. Burnham Kirkland
Our Father in heaven, this is the best day of the year, for we celebrate the best day of all time. Jesus, who was dead, is alive, and we, who will one day die, will live again. Darkness has yielded to light, and evil has been defeated by the holy. May this hour reflect the joy of the event we celebrate, and may our lives be flooded with your hope.
We cry out together as with those around the world: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Gloria Patri
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen
Worship in Tithes and Offerings
Special Music as Offering “Jesus is Risen Today!”
Performed by Kristine and Jeremiah Geer Accompanied by Miriam Enman
Prayer of Dedication
Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heavenly host: praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Responsive Prayer
L: Hear Our Cry, O God
P: Listen to Our Prayer
Hymn Christ Arose!
Low in the grave He lay,
Jesus, my Savior,
Waiting the coming day,
Jesus, my Lord!
Refrain:
Up from the grave He arose,
With a mighty triumph o’er His foes,
He arose a Victor from the dark domain,
And He lives forever, with His saints to reign.
He arose! He arose!
Hallelujah! Christ arose!
Vainly they watch His bed,
Jesus, my Savior;
Vainly they seal the dead,
Jesus, my Lord!
Death cannot keep his Prey,
Jesus, my Savior;
He tore the bars away,
Jesus, my Lord!
Text for the Message Luke 24:1-12
Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this, that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’ ”
And they remembered His words. Then they returned from the tomb and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them, who told these things to the apostles.And their words seemed to them like idle tales, and they did not believe them. But Peter arose and ran to the tomb; and stooping down, he saw the linen cloths lying by themselves; and he departed, marveling to himself at what had happened.
Message “Say Yes” to The Resurrection
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!
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!
Benediction (Blessing)
Postlude Miriam Enman