Easter Sunday
(words for hymns and bible readings follow the call to worship)
Welcome and Intimations
Call to Worship
CH4 436/MP 77 : Christ triumphant
Prayer and Lord’s Prayer
Reading John 20 : 1 – 10
MP 1105 : See what a morning
All Age time
JP 60 : God’s not dead
Reading John 20 : 11 – 18
CH4 410/MP 357 : Jesus Christ is risen today
Video -Easter Alleluia
Reflection
CH4 426/MP 14: All heaven declares
Prayer for ourselves and others
CH4 419/ MP 689 : Thine be the Glory
Blessing
Call to Worship
This is the day
When tears are wiped away
Shattered hearts are mended
Fears replaced with joy
This is the day
When the Lord rolls away the stone of fear
Throws off death’s clothes
Goes ahead of us into God’s future
This is the day the Lord has made
Death has no fear for us
Sin has lost power over us
God open’s the tombs
of our hearts
To fill us with life
This is the day – Easter day
Christ is risen
He is risen indeed Hallelujah
CH4 436/MP 77 : Christ triumphant
John 20:1-10 New International Version – UK The empty tomb
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went tohe tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 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!’
So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the cloth that had been wrapped round Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.
MP 1105 : See what a morning
JP 60 : God’s not dead
God’s not dead (no),
He is alive.
God’s not dead (no),
He is alive.
God’s not dead (no),
He is alive!
Serve Him with my hands,
follow with my feet,
love Him in my heart;
for He’s alive in me.
John 20 : 11 – 18 Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
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.’ At this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realise that it was Jesus.
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.’
Jesus said to her, ‘Mary.’
She turned towards 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.”’
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.
CH4 410/MP 357 : Jesus Christ is risen today
1 Jesus Christ is risen today, hallelujah!
our triumphant holy days,
who did once, upon the cross,
suffer to redeem our loss.
2 Hymns of praise then let us sing,
unto Christ, our heavenly King,
who endured the cross and grave,
sinners to redeem and save.
3 But the pains which He endured,
our salvation have procured,
now in heaven above He’s King,
where the angels ever sing.
CH4 426/MP 14: All heaven declares
CH4 419/ MP 689 : Thine be the Glory