PRELUDE: Selected Easter Hymns by Peter L. Bates
WORD OF WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
CALL TO WORSHIP
LEADER: This is the good news — the grave is empty, Christ is risen! PEOPLE: Hallelujah!
LEADER: This is the good news — the light shines in the darkness and the darkness can never put it out. PEOPLE: Hallelujah!
LEADER: This is the good news — once we were lost people, now we are God’s people. PEOPLE: Hallelujah!
PRAYER OF PRAISE
HYMN: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today! [Llanfair]
“Christ the Lord is risen today!” Alleluia! All creation, join to say: Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia! Sing, O Heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!
Love’s redeeming work is done, Alleluia! Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia! Christ has opened paradise. Alleluia!
Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia! Where, O death, is now your sting? Alleluia!
Jesus died, our should to save, Alleluia! Where your victory, O grave! Alleluia!
Hail the Lord of earth and heaven! Alleluia! Praise to you by both be given. Alleluia!
Every knee to you shall bow, Alleluia! Risen Christ, triumphant now. Alleluia!
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
Leader: Hear the good news! From the cross to the empty tomb, God declares that nothing can separate us from His love;
People: Nothing we have done, or left undone—nothing!
Leader: Hear the good news! From the cross to the empty tomb, God assures us that our sins are forgiven and through Jesus’ resurrection we have been given the gift of eternal life.
People: Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
RESPONSE OF PRAISE: Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Since I laid my burdens down. (Repeat)
I’m goin’ home to live with Jesus since I laid my burdens down. (Repeat)
SCRIPTURE LESSON: Matthew 28:1-8
HYMN: Be Not Afraid [Be not Afraid]
Be not afraid; sing out for joy! Christ is risen, alleluia! Be not afraid; sing out for joy! Christ is risen, alleluia!
SCRIPTURE LESSON: Matthew 28:9-10
HYMN: Be Not Afraid [Be not Afraid]
Be not afraid; sing out for joy! Christ is risen, alleluia! Be not afraid; sing out for joy! Christ is risen, alleluia!
SERMON: “Fearfully Good News”
ANTHEM: Alleluia, Love Is Alive! by Angrisano, Hart & Manibusan
People of God, see the morning is new. Rise from your sleeping and run to the tomb. Come and see! He is alive! A grave that is empty, a promise fulfilled, God who was with us is here with us still. He is here! He is alive! Alleluia! Love is alive, conquered the grave and defeated the night Alleluia! Love is alive! The son has arisen for all. Your people sing alleluia! People of God, let your fear fall always. Your chains have been broken, abandon your shame. Lift your hearts! He is alive! Her now is mercy embracing your soul, here the fulfillment that once was foretold. It is true! He is alive! People of God, now rejoicing in Christ, carry your joy to the darkness of night. Tell the world! He is alive! Hear the good news of his glorious day, every heart singing as heaven proclaims: He is Lord! He is alive!
PRAYER
HYMN: The Day of Resurrection! [Lancashire]
The Day of resurrection! Earth, tell it out abroad, the Passover of gladness, the Passover of God.
From death to life eternal, from sin’s dominion free, our Christ has brought us over with hymns of victory.
Let hearts be purged of evil that we may see aright the Lord in rays eternal of resurrection light,
And listening to his accents, may hear, so calm and plain, His own ”All hail!” and hearing, may raise the victor strain.
Now let the heavens be joyful; let earth its song begin; the round world keep high triumph and all that is therein.
Let all things seen and unseen their notes of gladness blend, for Christ the Lord has risen, our joy that has no end.
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