Prelude

Easter Fantasy on Ancient Hymns Sandra K. Tucker

“Welcome, happy morning!” Age to age shall say: hell today is vanquished; heaven is won today.

Lo! The Dead is living, God forever more! Him, their true Creator, all His works adore.

Westminster Brass

The Day of Resurrection Thomas Matthews

The day of resurrection, earth, tell it out abroad; the Passover of gladness, the Passover of God. From death to life eternal, from earth unto the sky, our Christ hath brought us over with hymns of victory.

Our hearts be pure from 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’s strain.

Now let the heavens be joyful, let earth her song begin, the round world keep high triumph, and all that is therein; let all things seen and unseen their notes together blend, for Christ the Lord is risen, our joy that hath no end. Alleluia!

Tenth Church Choir

Timothy Gonzalez, conductor

Call to Worship

Minister: O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? The sting of death is sin,
and the power of sin is the law.

People: But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Minister: Christ is risen!

People: He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

•Doxology (Trinity Hymnal 731) Old Hundredth

Praise God from Whom all blessings flow; praise Him, all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

•Prayer of Confession

O Divine Redeemer, great was Your goodness in undertaking our redemption, in consenting to be made sin for us, in conquering all our foes. Great was Your love in manifesting Yourself alive, in showing Your sacred wounds, that every fear might vanish and every doubt be removed. Great was Your wisdom in devising this means of salvation; bathe our souls in rich consolations of Your resurrection life. O God, pardon all our sins, known and unknown, felt and unfelt, confessed and not confessed, remembered or forgotten. Help us to be a holy, happy people, free from every wrong desire, from everything contrary to Your mind. Grant us more and more of the resurrection life: may it rule us, may we walk in its power and be strengthened through its influence. Amen.

•The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: 1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

•Invocation

•Hymn 277: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today Easter Hymn

Responsive Reading: Psalm 118:14–24 (page 511)

•Gloria Patri (Trinity Hymnal 734) Meineke

•Nicene Creed

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. Who, for us and our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered death and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall

have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spake by the prophets. And I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Prayer of Thanksgiving and Intercession

Announcements

•Hymn 455: And Can It Be That I Should Gain Sagina

(Praisemakers & KLICK will resume next Sunday.)

•Offering Prayer

Offertory: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem Charles Villiers Stanford

Ye choirs of new Jerusalem, your sweetest notes employ, the Paschal victory to hymn in strains of holy joy. For Judah’s Lion bursts His chains, crushing the serpent’s head; and cries aloud through death’s domains to wake the imprisoned dead. Devouring depths of hell their prey at His command restore; His ransomed hosts pursue their way where Jesus goes before. Triumphant in His glory now to Him all power is given; to Him in one communion bow all saints in earth and heaven. While we, His soldiers, praise our King, His mercy we implore, within His palace bright to bring and keep us evermore. All glory to the Father be, all glory to the Son, all glory, Holy Ghost to Thee, while endless ages run. Alleluia! Amen.

Tenth Church Choir
Westminster Brass

Timothy Gonzalez, conductor

Scripture Reading: Matthew 28:6 (page 835)

Sermon: “He Is Not Here, He Is Risen” Dr. Liam Goligher

Prayer

•Hymn 295: Crown Him with Many Crowns Diademata

•Benediction

•Postlude: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today Anthony Scott Watson

Westminster Brass

Serving this morning:
Rev. Enrique Leal & David Schuman, 9am platform
Rev. Gavin Lymberopoulos, 11am platform
Colin Howland, organ