Prelude Nicaea Brass

This Joyful Eastertide arr. Charles Wood/Colin Howland

Call to Worship

Acclamation

Minister: Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. Christ is risen!

People: He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

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!

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.

Hymn: Up from the Grave He Arose Christ Arose

Low in the grave he lay–Jesus, my Savior, waiting the coming day–Jesus, my Lord.

(Refrain)

Up from the grave he arose, with a mighty triumph o’er his foes.

He arose a victor from the dark domain, and he lives forever with his saints to reign.

He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!

Vainly they watch his bed–Jesus, my Savior; vainly they seal the dead–Jesus, my Lord. (Refrain)

Death cannot keep his prey–Jesus, my Savior; he tore the bars away–Jesus, my Lord. (Refrain)

Sermon: The Lord is Risen 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: Sing Choirs of New Jerusalem arr. Colin Howland Nicaea Brass