Introit and Prelude                

Salvation Is Created

Words and Music by Paul Tschesnokoff
English adaptation by N. Lindsay Norden

Sanctuary Choir

Words and Music by Pavel Tschesnokoff
English Adaptation by N. Lindsay Norden
© 1913 J. Fischer & Bro.

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Music by Lowell Mason based on a plainsong chant
Arranged by David T. Clydesdale

Cathedral of Hope Orchestra

Words: Isaac Watts, 1707
Music: Lowell Mason, 1824, adapted from a Gregorian Chant
This Arrangement by David T. Clydesdale
© 2005 Word Music LLC

Call to Worship         

Day has dawned and shadows are left behind.

We gather for worship in awe and wonder.
The stone is rolled away and HOPE is reborn!
So arise, people of God, and celebrate the good news:

Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!

**Processional Hymn:  

 Christ the Lord Is Risen Today

Christ the Lord is today, Alleluia!

Mortal tongues and angels say: Alleluia!

Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia!

Sing, glad heav’ns, earth reply: Alleluia!

Resurrection people sing, Alleluia!

Where, O death is now your sting? Alleluia!

Dying once, Christ lives to save, Alleluia!

Where your victory, O grave? Alleluia!

Love’s redeeming work is done, Alleluia!

Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia!

Death in vain forbids Christ rise, Alleluia!

God has opened paradise, Alleluia!

Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia!

Foll’wing our exalted Head, Alleluia!

Made like Christ, like Christ we rise, Alleluia!

Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!
 
Words: Charles Wesley, 1739

Music from Lyra Davidica, 1708

Welcome         

**Sharing of the Peace

Epistle Lesson:

Colossians 3:1-4

Our Epistle Lesson is from the Third Chapter of Paul and Timothy’s Letter to the Colossians. Hear these words:

So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ—who is your life—is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Christ in glory.

May God Bless the hearing of these ancient words. Amen.

Gospel Acclamation                  

Gospel Alleluia  

Choir:          Alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia.

Choir:

Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed;
Let us keep the feast with joy in the Lord.

**Gospel Lesson:

Mark 16:1-8     

One: God be with you.

All:    And also with you.

One: A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark.

All:    Glory to you, O God.

When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint Jesus. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. They had been saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?” When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled back. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe, sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed. But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. Look, there is the place they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that Jesus is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him, just as he told you.” So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

One: This is the Gospel of Christ.

All:    Praise to Christ, the Word.

**Gospel Response

Music by James Chepponis (Gospel Processional G-7202)
©2010 GIA Publications, Inc

Sermon                                               

More Than Good Enough

Offering Call   

Offertory                                                       

Christus Victor

Words and Music by Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty, 
Matt Boswell, Matt Papa, and Bryan Fowler
Arranged by Travis Cottrell and Mason Brown

Voices of Hope

Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra

Words and Music by Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty, 
Matt Boswell, Matt Papa, and Bryan Fowler
Arranged by Travis Cottrell and Mason Brown

© 2024 Getty Music Publishing, Messenger Hymns, LIVINGHYMNS,
Getty Music Hymns and Songs, Love Your Enemies

The Great Thanksgiving for Easter 

Sursum Corda     

One: God be with you

All:    And also with you.

One: Lift up your hearts.

All:    We lift them up to God.

One:  Let us give thanks and praise to God.

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

One: We give you praise, God of resurrection and new life. Early in the morning of creation, you shattered the darkness, formed us in your image, and breathed life into humankind. When we turned away from you, you sent the prophets to point the way to your heart. When we continued to ignore the prophets’ words, you sent Jesus to be one of us, to lead us home to you.

So, we lift our voices with those who stood at the empty tomb, and with your children of every time and place, joining the choirs of heaven and earth to forever sing your praise:

Sanctus

Words of Institution    

Faithful and holy are you, Creator of all, and blessed is Jesus the Christ.

On the night in which he was betrayed…. When we eat of this bread, and drink from this cup, we remember the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as we proclaim the mystery of our faith:

       
Memorial Acclamation 

Prayer of Consecration   

Let us pray.

Pour out your Spirit on this bread and cup, gifts of your creation. Reveal yourself to us in the breaking of the bread. Raise us up as the body of Christ for the world. Breathe new life in us, and join our voices with your holy ones of every time and place, praising you, God of the priests and the prophets, God of the apostles and martyrs, God of our mothers and our fathers, God of our children to all generations.

Great Amen

Invitation 

Music during Communion

You Are Lord

You are Lord, you are Lord!
You are risen from the dead and you are Lord!
Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Words and Music: Steve Vest, 1969

Breathe

This is the air I breathe, this is the air I breathe,

Your holy presence living in me.

This is my daily bread, this is my daily bread,

Your very word spoken to me.

And I, I’m desperate for you. And I, I’m lost without you.

Words and Music: Marie Barnett
© 1995 Mercy/Vineyard Publishing

Because You Live

Because you live I can face tomorrow. Because you live all fear is gone.

Because I know you hold the future, 
and life is worth the living just because you live.

Words and Music: Bill and Gloria Gaither
© 1971 William J. Gaither, Inc.

Shout to the Lord

My Jesus, my Savior, Lord, there is none like you;

All of my days I want to praise the wonders of your mighty love.

My Comfort, my Shelter, Tower of refuge and strength,

Let ev’ry breath, all that I am, never cease to worship you.

**Shout to the Lord, all the earth, let us sing, 
power and majesty, praises we bring.

Mountains bow down and the seas will roar at the sound of your name.

I sing for joy at the work of your hands, forever I’ll love you, forever I’ll stand;

Nothing compares to the promise I have in you!

Words and Music: Darlene Zschech
© 1993 Darlene Zschech/Hillsong Publishing/Integrity’s Hosanna! Music

**Benediction   

Postlude for Dismissal

The flowers on the chancel are given by Jim Lecroy and Jerry Turner in celebration of their Anniversary on April 15th. They have been together for 45 years and legally married for 12 years.

Additional Easter Flower Dedications here.