Morning Worship Service

Prelude: Sing Choirs of New Jerusalem Thomas Jarman/arr. Colin Howland

Nicaea Brass

Announcements

Living Church: Easter Sacrificial Offering Brian Schonewald

Call to Worship

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.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ is risen!
He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

Doxology 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 28

To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.
Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.
Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts.
Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.
Because they do not regard the works of the Lord or the work of his hands, he will tear them down and build them up no more.
Blessed be the Lord! For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.
The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.
The Lord is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage!
Be their shepherd and carry them forever.

Gloria Patri Meineke

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.

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 Intercession (concluding with The Lord’s Prayer)

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.

Hymn: I Know That My Redeemer Lives Duke Street

(Praisemakers music will not meet today.)

Offering Prayer

(For online giving go to tenth.org/give or mail checks to: 1701 Delancey Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103)

Offertory: Thine Be the Glory (Trinity Hymnal 274) arr. J. Marty Cope

Tenth Church Choir

Nicaea Brass

Scripture Reading: John 20:1–10 (pew Bible, p.906)

Sermon: The Empty Tomb Dr. Liam Goligher

Hymn 295: Crown Him with Many Crowns Diademata

Benediction

Postlude: Toccata from Symphony No. 5 Charles-Marie Widor

Serving today:
Rev. Carroll Wynne, 9:00am platform
Rev. John, 11am platform
Aaron Patterson, organist

Nicaea Brass
Nate Hepler, trumpet

Eric Schweingruber, trumpet

Kathryn Mehrtens, horn

Paul Arbogast, trombone

Brian Brown, tuba

Christopher Hanning, percussion