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A Service for the Lord’s Day
April 12, 2026
(*Please stand in body or in spirit)
The Instrumental Prelude and Time for Meditation
Announcements, Rev. Hana Elliott
Celebrations and the Birthday Song,
Happy birthday, happy birthday, your friends are all singing.
May the year that is coming bring gladness to you.
May it teach you to be helpful, kindhearted, and loving.
Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to you.
*Call to Worship: (1)
Leader: This is the good news which we proclaim to you.
People: Jesus Christ is raised from the dead!
Leader: Walk in the light of his love.
People: Live in the light of his teachings and healing mercies.
Leader: Come, let us worship the One Who overcame death.
People: Let us celebrate the triumph of our Lord.
*Hymn #47 “Holy, Holy, Holy”
*Call to Confession:
God has opened to us the gates of righteousness that we may enter through them. Confident in God’s love, let us confess our sin, first in silence, and then aloud together.
*Prayer of Confession: (2)
(Begin with individual silent prayer before joining in unison)
Wondrous God, we confess that at times our doubts and fears override our hope and faith. Forgive us when we lose sight of the joy of Your love and instead fall into despair and gloom. Lift up our spirits, Lord, and help us to remember the promise of new life here and now, not just the hope of resurrection for the future. We give thanks for Your Son, Jesus the Christ, who continues to offer us new life, who continues to turn us around and upside down, who continues to break down the walls of death in our own life. Forgive us, restore us and renew us, in the name of our risen Savior, Jesus the Christ.
*Assurance of Forgiveness:
Hear the good news! As people born of water and the Spirit we have died to the old life, and a new life has begun. God’s grace is poured out upon us day by day in our forgiveness through Jesus Christ. Be thankful, and live as one who has been raised to new life! Thanks be to God!
*The Gloria #108, In Unison
Glory be to the Father
And to the Son and to the Holy Ghost
As it was in the beginning,
Is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen
*Passing of the Peace:
Since God has forgiven us in Christ, let us forgive one another. May the peace of Christ be with you. And also with you.
Prayer for Illumination:
Let us pray together: Guiding God, send your Holy Spirit upon the reading of your Word that it may serve to show us the path of life and lead us into your presence where there is fullness of joy. Amen.
First Scripture Reading: Genesis 2:4b-8 (pg. 5)
Second Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:42-49 (pg. 1802)
Leader: This is the Word of the Lord
People: Let our thanks and praise be to God!
Children’s Message: Blake Burch
Sermon:
*Hymn #188 “Fairest Lord Jesus”
*Affirmation of Faith:
This is the good news which we have received, in which we stand, and by which we are saved, if we hold it fast: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day, and that he appeared first to the women, then to Peter, and to the Twelve, and then to many faithful witnesses. We believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus is the first and the last, the beginning and the end; he is our Lord and our God. Amen.
Call to Offering:
God has given us life in the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. In gratitude, let us offer our hearts and the fruit of our labor to God’s service.
Offering: Monetary gifts may be placed in the offering plates as they are passed through the pews.
*Doxology #109
Praise God from whom all blessing flow,
Praise God all creatures here below,
Praise God above ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*Prayer of Dedication: (3)
Let us pray together: Generous and surprising God, when we thought that death had claimed your only Son, you amazed us with the resurrection. Surprise us again with your ability to turn these humble offerings into gifts that will transform the world through our witness to your love. We lay our very lives at your feet, O God, knowing that you will use us to proclaim and embody the gospel. Amen.
Prayers of the People:
Leader: Living God,
People: hear our 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.
Choral Response,
Hear our prayer, O Lord, hear our prayer, O Lord,
Incline thine ear to us, and grant us thy peace. Amen
*Hymn #31 “To God Be the Glory”
*Charge & Blessing:
*Choral Response: “Go, My Children, with My Blessing”
Go, my children, fed and nourished, closer to me.
Grow in love and love by serving, joyful and free.
Here my Spirit’s power filled you;
here my tender comfort still you.
Go, my children, fed and nourished, joyful and free.
*The Choral Amen:
Amen, Amen, Amen.
(1) by Nancy C. Townley, www.ministrymatters.com.
(2) by Rev. Mindi, rev-o-lution.org.
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