Morning Worship Service

Prelude: This Joyful Eastertide arr. Colin Howland
Nicaea Brass

This joyful Eastertide, away with sin and sorrow! My Love, the Crucified, has sprung to life this morrow. Had Christ, that once was slain, ne'er burst His three-day prison, our faith had been in vain: but now has Christ arisen!

Announcements Kelci Rose, Director of Christian Education & Women's Ministries (11am)

Living Church: Easter Sacrificial Offering Rev. John

Call to Worship

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 71:17–24 (pew Bible p. 484)

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 276: Up from the Grave He Arose Christ Arose

(There is no Praisemakers music this morning.)

Offering Prayer Jamin Ferner, ruling elder (9am)

Nasrat Ghattas, ruling elder (11am)

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Offertory: Worthy Is the Lamb, from Messiah George Frideric Handel
Tenth Church Choir

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by His blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. Blessing and honor, glory and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever.

(Please stand when indicated to sing the following hymn.)

Hymn 274: Thine Be the Glory Maccabaeus

Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 15 (pew Bible p. 961)

Sermon: The Undoing of Death Dr. Liam Goligher

Hymn: I Know that My Redeemer Lives Lyons
Words: Samuel Medley (1775)

Benediction

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

Serving today:
9am platform: Joe Park, Jamin Ferner
11am platform: Josiah Vanderveen, Nasrat Ghattas

Nicaea Brass: Nathaniel Hepler, Eric Schweingruber, Kathryn Mehrtens, Paul Arbogast, Brian Brown
Organists: Aaron Patterson, Colin Howland