Announcements Easter Egg Hunt: Following the service, grab a treat in the lobby, then join us outside as the children collect Easter Eggs. Global 6K (May 21 at 8am): Registration is still open, each $50 brings clean water to people all over the world. Help is needed for the day of the race, see the table in the lobby for ways to serve. Feed Hungry Theater Students May 10 and May 12! The cast and crew of Bonny Eagle High School’s spring musical need dinner during Tech Week. The Women’s Fellowship Circle has provided chili and pizza as the main dishes, but side dishes, chips, and desserts are still needed - enough to feed 36 each night! Please sign up in the lobby and see Dawn Reiss if you have any questions. Thank you! April Mission: Church World Services Blankets $10 each. We have collected $435.
Introit:Easter Song (Choir) Hear the bells ringing, they're singing That You can be born again Here the bells ringing, they're singing Christ is risen from the dead
The angel up on the tombstone Said, “He has risen, just as He said Quickly now, go tell His disciples That Jesus Christ is no longer dead Joy to the world
He has risen, Alleluia! He's risen, Alleluia! He's risen, Alleluia!
Call to Worship: Leader: Alleluia, He is Risen! People: Christ is risen, indeed! Leader: Darkness has been vanquished. People: The Light of Hope has come! Leader: Let us proclaim this Good News, People: Jesus Christ is Risen! Invocation
Song of Praise: In Christ Alone In Christ alone my hope is found He is my light, my strength, my song This cornerstone, this solid ground Firm through the fiercest drought and storm What heights of love, what depths of peace When fears are stilled, when strivings cease My comforter, my all in all Here in the love of Christ I stand
In Christ alone who took on flesh Fullness of God in helpless babe This gift of love and righteousness Scorned by the ones He came to save Till on that cross as Jesus died The wrath of God was satisfied For every sin on Him was laid Here in the death of Christ I live
There in the ground His body lay Light of the world by darkness slain Then bursting forth in glorious day Up from the grave He rose again And as He stands in victory Sin's curse has lost its grip on me For I am His and He is mine Bought with the precious blood of Christ
No guilt in life, no fear in death This is the power of Christ in me From life's first cry to final breath Jesus commands my destiny No power of hell, no scheme of man Can ever pluck me from His hand Till He returns or calls me home Here in the power of Christ I'll stand
Scripture Reading: Luke 24:1-12 (NLT) Very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.So they went in, but they didn’t find the body of the Lord Jesus. As they stood there puzzled, two men suddenly appeared to them, clothed in dazzling robes.
The women were terrified and bowed with their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, “Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive?He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee,that the Son of Man[b] must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and that he would rise again on the third day.”
Then they remembered that he had said this.So they rushed back from the tomb to tell his eleven disciples—and everyone else—what had happened.It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and several other women who told the apostles what had happened. But the story sounded like nonsense to the men, so they didn’t believe it.However, Peter jumped up and ran to the tomb to look. Stooping, he peered in and saw the empty linen wrappings; then he went home again, wondering what had happened.
Hymn Christ the Lord is Risen Today (verse 1)
Sharing Time: Praises and Prayer Concerns Pastoral Prayer The Lord’s Prayer Hymn He Lives (verses 1, 3) Presentation of His Tithes and Our Offerings Offertory: I’ve Just Seen Jesus I've just seen Jesus, I tell you He's alive! I've just seen Jesus, My precious Lord, alive! And I knew, he really saw me too; As if ‘til now, I'd never lived. All that I'd done before Won't matter anymore. I've just seen Jesus, And I'll never be the same again.
Doxology Hymn I Love to Tell the Story (verse 1-2) Scripture Reading: Romans 10: 8-15 (NLT) “The message is very close at hand;it is on your lips and in your heart.” And that message is the very message about faith that we preach:If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved. As the Scriptures tell us, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be disgraced…” For “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!” Message: Share Together: He is Risen! Video:Gospel of the Kingdom (Gospel Project)
Hymn I Love to Tell the Story (verse 3-4) Hymn Jesus Saves! (Verse 1)