Prelude Nicaea Brass

This Joyful Eastertide arr. Charles Wood/Colin Howland

Sing Choirs of New Jerusalem arr. Colin Howland

Call to Worship

Acclamation

Minister: Christ is risen!

People: He is risen indeed!

Invocation

Hymn: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today Easter Hymn

Christ the Lord is ris’n today; Alleluia! Sons of men and angels say; Alleluia!

Raise your joys and triumphs high; Alleluia! Sing ye heav’ns, and earth, reply. Alleluia!

Vain the stone, the watch, the seal; Alleluia! Christ has burst the gates of hell; Alleluia!

Death in vain forbids His rise; Alleluia! Christ has 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 has led; Alleluia! Foll’wing our exalted Head; Alleluia!

Made like Him, like Him we rise; Alleluia! Ours the cross, the grave, the skies; Alleluia!

Hail, the Lord of earth and heav’n! Alleluia! Praise to Thee by both be giv’n; Alleluia!

Thee we greet triumphant now; Alleluia! Hail, the Resurrection, Thou! Alleluia!

Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into ­­heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.

Anthem: Were You There? arr. Todd Marchand

Nicaea Brass

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Oh! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Were you there when He rose up from the dead?

Sometimes I feel like shouting, “Glory! Glory! Glory!”

Were you there when He rose up from the dead?

Scripture Reading: John 20:24–29

24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.” 26 Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” 28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Sermon: Seeing Is Believing Is Seeing Dr. Liam Goligher

Hymn: Thine Be the Glory Maccabeus

Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son; endless is the vict’ry Thou o’er death hast won.

Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away, kept the folded graveclothes, where Thy body lay.

Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son; endless is the vict’ry Thou o’er death hast won.

Lo! Jesus meets us, risen from the tomb; lovingly He greets us, scatters fear and gloom.

Let the church with gladness, hymns of triumph sing, for her Lord now liveth, death hath lost its sting.

Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son; endless is the vict’ry Thou o’er death hast won.

No more we doubt Thee, glorious Prince of life; life is naught without Thee; aid us in our strife.

Make us more than conqu’rors, thro’ Thy deathless love: bring us safe thro’ Jordan to Thy home above.

Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son; endless is the vict’ry Thou o’er death hast won.

Benediction

Postlude: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (Llanfair) arr. Todd Marchand Nicaea Brass