Sunday, April 12th, Easter Sunday

Sunday School this week is all about Easter! Find this week’s lesson here. The children’s bulletin and worship notes below are intended to be used during the Easter Sunday service. You can read this story in the Spark Story Bible on page...

Gathering

You are invited to sing along with the leaders.

Word

Reading

First Reading: Jeremiah 31:1-6

God’s final word is always “Yes.” Because God’s love is everlasting, God always remains faithful. Ancient Israel is assured that it will be rebuilt and have plentiful crops. The people of God too will ultimately be reunited.

1At that time, says the Lord,

I will be the God of all the families of Israel,

and they shall be my people.

  2Thus says the Lord: 
 The people who survived the sword
  found grace in the wilderness;
 when Israel sought for rest,
  3the Lord appeared to him from far away.

 I have loved you with an everlasting love;
  therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
 4Again I will build you, and you shall be built,
  O virgin Israel!


 Again you shall take your tambourines,
  and go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.
 5Again you shall plant vineyards
  on the mountains of Samaria;
 the planters shall plant,
  and shall enjoy the fruit.

 6For there shall be a day when sentinels will call
  in the hill country of Ephraim:
 “Come, let us go up to Zion,
  to the Lord our God.”

Ancient Word.  Resurrected Wisdom.

Thanks be to God.

 

Psalm: Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24

1Give thanks to the Lord, for the Lord is good; God’s mercy endures forever.
 2Let Israel now declare, “God’s mercy endures forever.”

14The Lord is my strength and my song, and has become my salvation.
 15Shouts of rejoicing and salvation echo in the tents of the righteous:
  “The right hand of the Lord acts valiantly!

16The right hand of the Lord is exalted! The right hand of the Lord acts valiantly!”
 17I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.

18The Lord indeed punished me sorely, but did not hand me over to death.
 19Open for me the gates of righteousness:

I will enter them and give thanks to the Lord.

20“This is the gate of the Lord; here the righteous may enter.”
 21I give thanks to you, for you have answered me and you have become my salvation.

22The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
 23By the Lord has this been done; it is marvelous in our eyes.

24This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

 

Second Reading: Acts 10:34-43

Peter’s sermon, delivered at the home of Cornelius, a Roman army officer, is a summary of the essential message of Christianity: Everyone who believes in Jesus, whose life, death, and resurrection fulfilled the words of the prophets, “receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

34Peter began to speak to the people:

 “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, 35but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. 36You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all. 

37That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced: 38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. 

39We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree; 40but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear, 41not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

42He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead.

43All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

Ancient Word.  Resurrected Wisdom.

Thanks be to God.

 

Sermon

Sermon Hymn

 

You are invited to sing along with the leaders.

 

Creed, Prayers, Passing of the Peace

The Creed

We have faith in God who lives among us. We are not alone, we live in God’s world:

We believe in God: who has created and is creating, who has come in Jesus,

the Word made flesh, to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others by the Spirit.

We trust in God. We are called to be the Church:

to celebrate God’s presence, to live with respect in creation,

to love and serve others, to seek peace and resist evil,

to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope.

In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone. Thanks be to God!

The Offering

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The Meal

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 trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

Sending

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Postlude

 

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Prelude 1

All Creatures of Our God and King.  Text:  St. Francis.  Music:  LASST UNS ERFREUEN, Auserlesen Catholische Geistliche Kirchengesäng, Cologne, 1623.  Arrangement for 8 handbells by Larry Sue.

 

Prelude 2

Christ, the Lord, is Risen Today. Text:  Charles Wesley.  Music:  EASTER HYMN, Lyra Davidica, London, 1708. Arrangement for flute and piano by Rebecca Bonam.  

 

Opening Hymn

Jesus Christ is Risen Today.  Latin carol, 14th century, Music:  EASTER HYMN, J. Walsh, 1708.  Public domain.

 

Sermon Hymn

Alleluia!  Jesus is Risen!  Text:  Herb Brokering.  Music:  EARTH AND ALL STARS, David Johnson. Text © 1995 Augsburg Fortress. Music © 1969 Contemporary Worship 1, admin. Augsburg Fortress.  All Rights Reserved.  Used by permission under OneLicense.net License # A-708353.

 

 Offertory

The Lord's Prayer.  Text: Traditional.  Music:  David Haas.  © 1986 GIA Publications, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.  Used by permission under OneLicense.net License # A-708353. Setting for piano by Arief Abraham.

 

Communion Music

This is the Feast of Victory For Our God.  Text:  John W. Arthur, 1970.  Music:  Richard Hillert, 1975.  Text © 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship, admin. Augsburg Fortress Music © 1978 Richard Hillert, admin. Augsburg Fortress.  Used by permission under OneLicense.net License # A-708353.  Setting for piano and trumpet by John Sparkman.

 

Closing Hymn

Thine is the Glory!  Text: Edmund Budry (1854-1932), translated by R. Birch Hoyle (1875-1939).  Music: JUDAS MACCABAEUS, G. F. Handel (1685-1759).  Public domain.

 

Postlude 1

Te Deum.  Music by Marc-Antonie Charpentier.  Arranged for Trumpet and Piano by Scott Hyslop

Offered by Quarantones Arief A and Loren T.

Spoken liturgy from sundaysandseasons.com; alt. Used by permission under Augsburg Fortress license #14006-LIT.

Additional spoken liturgy written by the local community and used by permission of the authors.

Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible © 1989 Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission.