Image: (“As It Began To Dawn”, Wesley, Frank, 1923-2002)
©Order of Worship for Sunday April 20, 2025
Resurrection Sunday
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Prelude:……………………Fairest Lord Jesus………………….Handbell Choir
Music; Don Besig, © 2005, Harold Flammer Music
Coming of the Light:…………………………………….Eli A.
Greetings:…………………………………Pastor Steven
Wonderful Merciful Savior……………………………Choir
Opening Prayer: …………………….……………Robin C.
Beloved, Christ is risen!
Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Our Savior is risen!
Our Savior is risen indeed! Alleluia!
Steadfast Love is risen!
Steadfast Love is risen indeed! Alleluia!
This is the day that God has made;
Let us rejoice and be glad! Alleluia!
Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, September 2024.
Opening Hymns:…“Christ the Lord Is Risen Today”……#302 UMH
Words: Charles Wesley, 1739 Music: Lyra Davidica, 1708
1. Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia!
Earth and heaven in chorus say, Alleluia!
Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!
Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!
2. Love’s redeeming work is done, Alleluia!
Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!
Death in vain forbids him rise, Alleluia!
Christ has opened paradise, Alleluia!
3. Lives again our glorious King, Alleluia!
Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!
Once he died our souls to save, Alleluia!
Where’s thy victory, boasting grave? Alleluia!
4. Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia!
Following our exalted Head, Alleluia!
Made like him, like him we rise, Alleluia!
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!
5. Hail the Lord of earth and heaven, Alleluia!
Praise to thee by both be given, Alleluia!
Thee we greet triumphant now, Alleluia!
Hail the Resurrection, thou, Alleluia!
6. King of glory, soul of bliss, Alleluia!
Everlasting life is this, Alleluia!
Thee to know, thy power to prove, Alleluia!
Thus to sing, and thus to love, Alleluia!
Passing of the Peace:………………………..Pastor Steven
Let us offer signs of reconciliation and peace to one another.
Gloria Patri:………“Glory Be to the Father” #71 UMH
Words: Lesser Doxology, 3rd-4th century
Music: Henry W. Greatorex, 1851
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.
Panis Angelicus…………………………………Samantha M.
Cesar Franck
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Offertory:…..“I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”……Greg D. / Mark B.
Georg Friedrich Handel
Offertory Response:….. “The Doxology”……………..#94 UMH
Words: Thomas Ken, 1674 Music: Geistliche Kirchengesänge, 1623;
Adapt. © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House
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Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise God,
all creatures here below: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise God the
source of all our gifts! Praise Jesus Christ, whose power up-lifts! Praise the Spirit, Holy Spirit! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Prayer After Receiving:………………………Pastor Steven
Prayers of the People:………………….……Pastor Steven
Solo……………”We Shall Behold Him”………Melanie B.
1980 Designer Music/SESAC, Songs of Rambo McGuire/SESAC
Gospel Lesson:………………John 20: 1 – 18……….…………Robin C.
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” 3 Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb. 4 The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, 7 and the cloth that had been on Jesus’s head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed, 9 for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples returned to their homes.
11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look[a] into the tomb, 12 and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13 They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir,[b] if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew,[c] “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her, “Do not touch me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ” 18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and she told them that he had said these things to her.
Hymn of Preparation : …“He is Lord”………….UMH #177
1 He is Lord, he is Lord; he is risen from the dead, and he is Lord; every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
2 He is love, he is love; he has shown us by his life that he is love; all his people sing with one voice of joy that Jesus Christ is love.
3 He is life, he is life; he has died to set us free, and he is life; and he calls us all to live evermore for Jesus Christ is life.
4 He is King, he is King; he will draw all nations to him, he is King: and the time shall be when the world shall sing that Jesus Christ is King.
Homily:…………..“Where is your sting?”………..Pastor Steven
Anthem:………………….In Christ Alone………………..Choir
Closing Hymn:……“Because He Lives”……………….#364 UMH
Words and Music: Robert Lowry, 1874
1. God sent His son, they called Him, Jesus;
He came to love, heal and forgive;
He lived and died to buy my pardon,
An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives!
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow,
Because He lives, all fear is gone;
Because I know He holds the future,
And life is worth the living,
Just because He lives!
2. How sweet to hold a newborn baby,
And feel the pride and joy he brings;
But greater still the calm assurance:
This child can face uncertain days because He Lives!
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow,
Because He lives, all fear is gone;
Because I know He holds the future,
And life is worth the living,
Just because He lives!
3. And then one day, I’ll cross the river,
I’ll fight life’s final war with pain;
And then, as death gives way to victory,
I’ll see the lights of glory and I’ll know He lives!
Because He lives, I can face tomorrow,
Because He lives, all fear is gone;
Because I know He holds the future,
And life is worth the living,
Just because He lives!
Dismissal with Blessing:………………Pastor Steven
Postlude:…………”Victory Medley ”…………….Greg D./Bebe S.
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