PRELUDE: Easter Hymn of Promise by Natalie Sleeth/arr. by Joel Raney; Emily Lacina, piano; Peter Bates, organ; Covenant Choir
In our end is our beginning; in our time, infinity; in our doubt there is believing; in our life, eternity, in our death, a resurrection; at the last, a victory, unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see. Alleluia!
WELCOME
CALL TO WORSHIP
HYMN: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today [Llanfair]
PRAYER
INTROIT: Easter Canticle by John Ness Beck
The same! Jesus Christ! Yesterday and today and tomorrow, yesterday to the end of all time! He was crucified, but He rose victorious; He rose again in triumph glorious to sit at the right hand of God the Father. Alleluia! The same! Jesus Christ! Yesterday and today and tomorrow Christ is King, and has banished our sorrow, Yesterday and today and tomorrow the same! [based on Hebrews 13:8]
PRAYER
SCRIPTURE LESSON: 1 Corinthians 15:19-26
HYMN: The Strife Is O’er [Victory]
SERMON: “The One Who Took the Life out of Death”
ANTHEM: Risen Today! By Dan Forrest; Emily Lacina, piano
Christ the Lord is risen today, alleluia! Earth and heaven in chorus say, alleluia! Raise your joys and triumphs high! Alleluia! Sing, ye 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 thy sting? Alleluia! Dying once, He all doth save, Alleluia! Where thy victory, O grave? Alleluia! Soar we now where Christ has led, alleluia! Following our exalted head, Alleluia! Made like Him, like Him we arise, Alleluia! Ours the cross, he grave, the skies, Alleluia! Alleluia! [Charles Wesley]
PRAYER
HYMN: Christ Is Risen! Shout Hosanna! [Hymn to Joy]
BENEDICTION
CHORAL RESPONSE: Easter Hymn of Promise by Natalie Sleeth/arr. by Joel Raney
In our death, a resurrection; at the last a victory, unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see. Alleluia!
POSTLUDE: Toccata (from Symphony V) by Charles Marie Widor
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