The Resurrection of Our Lord April 20, 2025
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Welcome and Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 16 (pg. 535)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------------- # 98
“Thine Is the Glory”
*Confession of Sins …………………………….................... pg. 2
*Kyrie & Declaration of Grace ..………………………….… pg. 3
FLY Group Singing
*Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Isaiah 65:17-25 (pg. 742)
2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:19-26 (pg. 1142)
*The Gospel: Luke 24:1-12 (pg. 1051)
*Response to the Word ……………………………………… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Nicene Creed….…………......... pg. 18
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN -------------------------------------------------------------- # 83
“Where You There?”
Sermon: Matthew 21 – “Response to Authority”
Special Music: Tim Engelland, “This Is Our God”
* Communion Service: The Exhortation ……………………. pg. 6
* The Lord’s Prayer & Words of the Institution.……………. pg. 7
Lamb of God ………………………………………………. pg. 20
Hymns during the distribution of Communion: # 285, 97, 177,
545, 615
*Closing Prayer
*The Benediction & Three-fold Amen ...……………………. pg. 8
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
WELCOME! We rejoice that you are sharing this day with us! May the Resurrection Gospel message fill you with joy, thanksgiving, and peace as you join in the celebration of our Lord's resurrection victory over sin and death. Jesus was crucified and is risen, living and ruling for all eternity, Alleluia! If you are visiting our Church this morning, please sign our guest book, and we invite you to come and worship with us again soon.
Announcements
Holy Communion: We invite all who believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and who have received Confirmation or other Biblical instruction on this Sacrament to come to the altar to participate in the Lord’s Supper. All other, including children, are invited to come forward to receive a blessing from the Pastor. We also invite you to prepare yourself by reading “Personal Preparation for Holy Communion,” (hymnal pages 14-15). Please note: The 6 cups in the center ring of the communion trays are Grape Juice for those wanting juice instead of wine.
Monthly hymn #83: "Were You There?"
Memory verse: Matthew 28:19-20 “Go
therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching
them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with
you always, to the end of the age.”
Pickerel Lake Lutheran Bible Camp,
https://pllbc.wordpress.com/camp/ July 13-18 for Junior high students who have finished grades 5-7.
This Week’s Activities:
27th – Sun. – Worship, 9:00 a.m., Heritage Sunday
(Matthew Chapter 22)
Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.
CHURCH CLEANING: Apr. 21-27 Sara Wright & Shelby Punt
*Call to Worship: Psalm 16
16 Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
2 I say to the Lord, “You are my
Lord;
I have no good apart from you.”
3 As for the saints in the land, they
are the excellent ones,
in whom is all my delight.
4 The sorrows of those who
run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood
I will not pour out
or take their names on my lips.
5 The Lord is my chosen portion and
my cup;
you hold my lot.
6 The
lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a
beautiful inheritance.
7 I bless the Lord who gives me
counsel;
in the night also my heart instructs me.
8 I have set the Lord always before
me;
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and
my whole being rejoices;
my flesh also dwells secure.
10 For you will not abandon my soul
to Sheol,
or let your holy one see corruption.
11 You make known to me the
path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at
your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
1st Reading: Isaiah 65:17-25
17 “For behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
or come into mind.
18 But be glad and
rejoice forever
in that which I create;
for behold, I create
Jerusalem to be a joy,
and her people to be a gladness.
19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad
in my people;
no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
and the cry of distress.
20 No more
shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an
old man who does not fill out his days,
for the young man shall
die a hundred years old,
and the sinner a hundred years old shall
be accursed.
21 They shall build
houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their
fruit.
22 They shall not build and
another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
for
like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my
chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They
shall not labor in vain
or bear children for calamity,
for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
and
their descendants with them.
24 Before
they call I will answer;
while they are yet speaking I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall graze
together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and dust shall
be the serpent's food.
They shall not hurt or destroy
in all
my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:19-26
19 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
*The Gospel: Luke 24:1-12
24 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. 5 And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.” 8 And they remembered his words, 9 and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, 11 but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. 12 But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.