Easter Sunday

10:45 Sanctuary

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THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD - EASTER DAY 10:45 AM April 5, 2015

Mark's gospel ends abruptly, with astonishment and fear rather than joyful proclamation.

Yet Mark may speak to our experience more directly than the other gospels. Corinthians fills

out the story by telling of appearances of the risen Christ. Peter says we "ate and drank with

him after he rose from the dead." And so do we, in a foretaste of the mountaintop feast where

death will be no more.

This bulletin contains all the hymns and worship order.

The liturgy today is from Setting III in the red Evangelical Lutheran Worship hymnal.

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+ + + GATHERING + + +

The Holy Spirit calls us together as the people of God.

GATHERING MUSIC Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee - Beethoven, arr. Bill Wolaver

Mark Koehler, piano

Thine Is the Glory - Handel, arr. Marvin / Zimmerman

Trinity Brass & Mark Koehler, organ

WELCOME AND ANNOUCEMENTS

*LIGHTING OF THE PASCHAL CANDLE / LITANY OF PRAISE (Based on Psalm 118)

*Please stand, as able.

Just as the cross is a symbol of the death of Christ, the paschal candle is a symbol of the risen Christ,

whose body, like the light from the candle, is given to many without being diminished.

Christ is risen!

He is risen indeed!

Give thanks to the LORD, for the LORD is good;

God's mercy endures forever.

The LORD is my strength and my song,

and has become my salvation.

Shouts of rejoicing and salvation echo in the tents of the righteous:

"The right hand of the LORD acts valiantly!”

I shall not die, but live,

and declare the works of the LORD.

Open for me the gates of righteousness;

I will enter them and give thanks to the LORD.

I give thanks to you, for you have answered me

and you have become my salvation.

The stone that the builders rejected

has become the chief cornerstone.

By the LORD has this been done;

it is marvelous in our eyes.

This is the day that the LORD has made,

let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Christ is risen, he is risen indeed!

Alleluia! Praise his holy name!

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*GATHERING SONG Jesus Christ Is Risen Today - arr. S. D. Wolff ELW 365

Please turn and face the processional cross in the center aisle as it passes.

*GREETING

Alleluia! Christ is risen!

Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,

and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

And also with you.

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*KYRIE Lord, Have Mercy pg. 138

We sing a prayer for God’s mercy to fill the church and the world.

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*CANTICLE OF PRAISE This Is the Feast pg. 140

During the Easter Season we use "Worthy Is Christ," from the book of Revelation, as our Canticle of Praise.

The hymn looks to the day when we shall gather at the throne of the Lamb to praise Christ’s holy name.

< Stanzas 1 & 3 - Left / Lectern side

Stanzas 2 & 4 - Right / Pulpit side >

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*PRAYER OF THE DAY

Let us pray.

O God,

you gave your only Son to suffer death on the cross for our redemption,

and by his glorious resurrection you delivered us from the power of death.

Make us die every day to sin,

so that we may live with him forever in the joy of the resurrection;

through Jesus Christ our Lord,

who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,

one God, now and forever.

Amen

Please be seated.

CHOIR ANTHEM An Easter Hodie - arr. Don Hustad

Based on the German tune LASST UNS ERFREUEN

Text by Timothy Dudley-Smith

Ron Marenchin, director

+ + + WORD + + +

God speaks to us in scripture reading, preaching and song.

READING 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Pew Bible, NT page 184

Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn

received, in which also you stand, 2through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message

that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain.

3For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in

accordance with the scriptures, 4and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance

with the scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6Then he appeared to more than five

hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. 7Then he

appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. 9For I

am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10But by the

grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder

than any of them—though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11Whether then it was I or they, so

we proclaim and so you have come to believe.

The word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

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*GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Alleluia, Alleluia pg. 142

*GOSPEL Mark 16:1-8 Pew Bible, NT page 55

The holy gospel according to Mark.

Glory to you, O Lord.

When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so

that they might go and anoint him. 2And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they

went to the tomb. 3They had been saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance

to the tomb?" 4When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled

back. 5As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe, sitting on the right side; and

they were alarmed. 6But he said to them, "Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was

crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Look, there is the place they laid him. 7But go, tell his disciples

and Peter that he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him, just as he told you." 8So 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.

The gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, O Christ.

Please be seated.

SERMON WHY YOU “SAY NOTHING TO ANYONE” Pastor Sanford C. Mitchell

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HYMN OF THE DAY Alleluia! Jesus Is Risen - arr. Larry Cook ELW 377

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NICENE CREED pg. 104

The ancient Israelites were delivered from Egypt through the waters of the sea.

God delivered us from sin through the waters of our Baptism.

With joy we proclaim the Faith and declare ourselves the people of God,

using together the words of the Nicene Creed:

We believe in one God,

the Father, the Almighty,

maker of heaven and earth,

of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,

the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father,

God from God, Light from Light,

true God from true God, begotten, not made,

of one Being with the Father;

through him all things were made.

For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven,

was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary

and became truly human.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;

he suffered death and was buried.

On the third day he rose again in accordance with the scriptures;

he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,

and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,

who proceeds from the Father and the Son,

who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified,

who has spoken through the prophets.

We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church.

We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

We look for the resurrection of the dead,

and the life of the world to come. Amen.

PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION

After each portion of the prayers:

O Risen Christ,

hear our prayer.

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OFFERING Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands - arr. Michael Burkhardt

Selected movements from CANTATA #4 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Mary Morgan, soprano; Amanda Wolgast, violin & Choir

The melody of this Lutheran chorale, hymn #370 in our ELW,

can be traced back to a medieval liturgical chant from around 1100 AD.

It was so popular that a number of German Easter hymns were based on it,

including this text by Martin Luther first published in 1524,

only seven years after the Reformation.

Lutheran chorales were at first very rhythmic and were sung in unison,

but later Bach and others added the harmony parts we enjoy today.

I. SINFONIA - Violin & Organ

II. CHORALE - Choir

1 Christ Jesus lay in death’s strong bands

for our offenses given;

but now at God’s right hand he stands

and brings us life from heaven.

Therefore let us joyful be

and sing to God right thankfully

loud songs of hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

III. ARIA - Soprano & Violin

2 It was a strange and dreadful strife

when life and death contended;

the victory remained with life,

the reign of death was ended.

Holy Scripture plainly says

that swallowed now is death by death,

its sting is lost forever.

Hallelujah!

IV. CHORALE - Choir

4 So let us keep the festival

to which the Lord invites us;

Christ is himself the joy of all,

the sun that warms and lights us.

Now his grace to us imparts

eternal sunshine to our hearts;

the night of sin is ended.

Hallelujah!

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*CANTICLE OF THANKSGIVING He Is Arisen! Glorious Word!

Please stand and sing this Lutheran chorale as the offering is presented.

*THANKSGIVING FOR THE WORD pg. 220

Luther held that the Word and Sacraments were central in our worship. On Sundays when we do not

celebrate the Sacrament of Communion, we thank God for the gift of the Word which we have received.

The prayers conclude either: or:

For your Word of life, O God, ...be honor and glory forever.

we give you thanks and praise. Amen.

LORD’S PRAYER - Sung, using “debts” and “debtors”

During the Easter season we sing the Lord’s Prayer in the musical setting by Albert Hay Malotte.

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+ + + SENDING + + +

God blesses us and sends us in mission to the world.

*BENEDICTION

*SENDING SONG Christ the Lord Is Risen Today; Alleluia! - arr. Wolff ELW 369

*DISMISSAL

Go in peace. Share the good news. Alleluia, alleluia!

Thanks be to God. Alleluia, alleluia!

*PASSING OF THE PEACE

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PARTICIPATING IN THE SERVICE:

GREETERS - Mike & Pam Bradley

USHERS - (Teams 1 & 2) Bob Wendling, Gary Hildebrand; John Ferguson, Steve Purvis

ACOLYTE - Gabe McCracken

CRUCIFER - Will Van Scoy

BANNER BEARER - Casandra Schuster

LECTOR - Nick Shreffler

ORGANIST - Mark Koehler

TRINITY BRASS - Philip Barrick, Tom Burns, Marty Sawchak, trumpets

Corinne Aebersold, horn; Dan Forbes, John Walker, trombone; Al Lawrence, tuba

Ron Marenchin, director

CHILD CARE - Infant Supervisor - Sara Paddags

Toddler Supervisor - Kelly Owens

SOUND SYSTEM - Glenn Rausch

RADIO - Roland Massatti

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