Bulletin for Easter Sunday 04/04/2021

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 Greetings & Announcements


Chimes


Opening Prayer

All: Loving Christ, open the eyes of our faith that we may behold the work of your redemption. Open our minds and hearts to receive your resurrection glory, your light everlasting. May this time of worship, reflection and celebration be a worthy response to your love and your sacrifice for us. Amen.


Prelude


  

Call to Worship
One:  We’re here because we’re people who have heard a rumour

All:   That there’s life to be found on the other side of death.
One:  We’re here because just the rumour is enough to bring us hope
All:   And just the hope is enough to bring us a moment of life.
One:  We’re here because even though it is only a flicker, a moment, a breath
All:    It’s changed our death forever.

One:   Hallelujah!  Christ is risen!

All:    He is risen indeed!

One:   Come! Let us worship God! 



*Hymn #232                Jesus Christ is Risen Today               


Call to Confession


Prayer of Confession 

All: Loving God, we confess that at times we do not share in the joy of the resurrection but are caught in the worries of the world. We confess that we do not always live in the spirit of new life but remain discontent, grumbling, and anxious. Forgive us when we find it more comfortable to worry and complain than to risk the joy and encouragement of new life in Christ. Call us back to Your ways, O God, to seek hope and reconciliation, restoration and peace. In the name of the Risen Christ, we pray. Amen.


Assurance of Pardon


Minute for Mission

Message for Young Disciples

Prayer for Illumination
All: O risen Christ, open us to the power of your resurrection as we hear it proclaimed anew this day, that we too might rise to new life in you. Amen.

New Testament Reading:            I Corinthians 15:1-11

Gospel Reading:                                            Mark 16:1-8        

                                                                 

Message:                  “Finishing the Story”               Greg Gibson   


Affirmation of Faith – Apostles' Creed    (Traditional, pg 35)


*Hymn #263                          All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name                   

 


Prayers of the People and The Lord's Prayer

Offertory

Doxology


Prayer of Dedication

All: God of great gifts: This morning we give you praise, we give you glory, we give you thanks! With resurrection humming in our hearts, our minds are tuned to your song of peace! We joyfully present these gifts to you,a tangible chorus of thanksgiving, a harmony of hope for your kingdom come! Amen.


Communion (all baptized people are invited to the Table)

One: The Lord be with you 

All:   And also with you. 

One: Lift up your hearts. 

All:   We lift them up to the Lord. 

One: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. 

All:   It is right to give our thanks and praise. 

One: It is right...


Hymn #238                   Thine is the Glory           



Benediction

Recessional        

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