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6:30am Service March 31, 2024 MORE PEOPLE, MORE LIKE CHRIST

SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY Sunday, March 31, 2024 6:30am PLEASE SILENCE OR PLACE YOUR CELL PHONE ON VIBRATE.

GATHERING

PRELUDE Morning Has Broken WORDS OF WELCOME *CALL TO WORSHIP Leader: People: Leader: People: Leader: People: Leader: People:

Today is the day of resurrection!

We will rejoice and be glad!

Our sin has been forgiven.

Death has been defeated.

Light has overcome the darkness.

The tomb is empty!

Alleluia! Christ is risen!

Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!

*PRAYER OF INVOCATION *HYMN

Morning Has Broken Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird.

Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning!

Praise for them springing fresh from the Word!

Sweet the rain’s new fall sunlit from Heaven, Like the first dewfall on the first grass.

Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden, Sprung in completeness where His feet pass.

Mine is the sunlight! Mine is the morning, Born of the one light Eden saw play!

Praise with elation, praise every morning, God’s re-creation of the new day! © Eleanor Farjeon. Used by permission. Onelicense.net # A-742362.

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (Apostles’ Creed) I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost, The holy catholic church, The communion of saints, The forgiveness of sins, The resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.

*HYMN

Christ the Lord Is Risen Today Christ the Lord is risen today. Alleluia!

Sons of men and angels say: Alleluia!

Raise your joys and triumphs high. Alleluia!

Sing, ye heavens, and earth, reply: Alleluia!

Lives again our glorious King. Alleluia!

Where, O death, is now thy sting? Alleluia!

Once He died our souls to save. Alleluia!

Where thy victory, O grave? Alleluia!

Love’s redeeming work is done. Alleluia!

Fought the fight, the battle won. Alleluia!

Death in vain forbids Him rise. Alleluia!

Christ hath opened paradise. Alleluia!

PRAYER OF CONFESSION Holy God, we have propped up our lives with lies rather than devote ourselves to truth. We have allowed our thoughts to be polluted with selfish desires rather than focus on the wellbeing of Your people. We have coveted for ourselves the things of earth rather than aspired to the intentions of our Creator. We have embraced attitudes and actions that kill and destroy rather than those that build up and bring life. O God, we ask that You prune from us what is sick, diseased, and sinful.We ask You to strengthen our abiding in Jesus Christ, and our ability to bear Fruit through the Holy Spirit.We want to be new creations in Christ Jesus. May the power of the resurrection be a reality within and among us, Lord. We pray all this in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF PARDON Leader: Sisters and brothers in Christ, hear the good news of the Gospel: the tomb is empty! Our Lord

and Savior has risen from the grave! That which has been dead is alive! No barrier, none

whatsoever, can keep us from the love of God! Therefore, let us assure one another of God’s pardon.

All: ANTHEM

In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Alleluia! Amen!

Lord I Lift Your Name on High Lord I lift Your name on high Lord I love to sing Your praises I’m so glad You’re in my life I’m so glad You came to save us.

You came from heaven to earth, to show the way From the earth to the cross, my debt to pay From the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky Lord I lift Your name on high.

Rick Founds © 1989 Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing. CCLI Song # 117947 | CCLI License # 455874

I Believe in Jesus I believe in Jesus I believe He is the Son of God I believe He died and rose again I believe He paid for us all I believe He’s here now Standing in our midst Here with the power to heal now And the grace to forgive.

PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION Spirit of God, speak once again through the Words of Scripture that our listening ears may hear Your voice. Help us to place Your Word in our minds, treasure it in our hearts, choose it with our wills, and live it through our bodies. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen.

SCRIPTURE John 20:1-10 NIV 1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside.

He saw and believed. 9 (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)

10 Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.

Leader: All:

This is the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God!

CARING PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE 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.

OFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE OFFERTORY

Lord Your Blood

Bret Reiss, 1992

Lord Your Blood, how it cleanses me, Lord Your Blood, how it changes me, Lord Your Blood, how it heals me And makes me whole

GROWING SCRIPTURE John 20:11-23 NIV 11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

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They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”

“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” 14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

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He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”

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Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

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Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

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On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

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Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

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SERMON

“Raised Again to Life”

Rev. Jim Noble

HYMN

Amazing Grace

John Newton

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me.

I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.

‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears relieved.

How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come; ‘Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far And grace will lead me home.

When we’ve been there ten thousand years Bright shining as the sun, We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise Than when we’ve first begun.

GOING *BENEDICTION & RESPONSE

This Is the Day This is the day, this is the day.

That the Lord has made that the Lord has made.

I will rejoice, I will rejoice, And be glad in it and be glad in it.

This is the day That the Lord has made.

I will rejoice, and be glad in it.

This is the day, this is the day.

That the Lord has made.

Les Garrett © 1967, 1980 Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing.

CCLI License # 455874

*POSTLUDE

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