Easter Sunrise Worship

Easter Sunrise Worship Concordia Lutheran Church 7424 N. Second Street Machesney Park, IL

April 4, 2010 6:30 A.M

We thank Allie Myers, a fourth grade student in your Concordia Lutheran School for providing the beautiful art work for today’s folder. Words of Welcome

“Christ the Lord is Risen Today” Lutheran Worship # 137

Christ the Lord is ris’n today; Alleluia! Christians, hasten on your way; Alleluia! Offer praise with love replete, Alleluia! At the paschal victim’s feet. Alleluia!

For the sheep the Lamb has bled, Alleluia! Sinless in the sinner’s stead. Alleluia! Christ the Lord is ris’n on high, Alleluia! Now He lives, no more to die. Alleluia!

Hail, the victim undefiled, Alleluia! God and sinners reconciled, Alleluia! When contending death and life, Alleluia! Met in strange in awesome strife. Alleluia!

Christians, on this holy day, Alleluia! All your grateful homage pay; Alleluia! Christ the Lord is ris’n on high; Alleluia! Now He lives, no more to die. Alleluia!

Invocation

P: Christ is Risen! C: He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

P: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. C: Amen.

2 Prayer of the Day

P: Let us pray: Almighty God, by the death of Your Son You have overcome sin and death, and by His resurrection You have restored everlasting life to all who believe in You. Deliver us from the influence of the evil one, that we may live confident of the Easter truth, serving faithfully in Your kingdom of grace until at last You receive us into Your eternal kingdom of glory; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord; who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. C: Amen.

Introit Psalm 139:18b, 5, 1

P: I awake, and I am still with you. 5You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. O LORD, you have searched me and known me! All: Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

“Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing” Lutheran Worship # 129

Good Christian friends, rejoice and sing! Now is the triumph of our King! To all the world glad news we bring: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

The Lord of life is ris’n this day; Bring flow’rs of song to strew His way; 3 Let all the world rejoice and say; Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Praise we in songs of victory That love, that life which cannot die, And sing with hearts uplifted high: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Your name we bless, O Risen Lord, And sing today with one accord The life laid down, the life restored: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Old Testament Reading Job 19:25-27

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. 26And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, 27whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!

“Dear Christians, One and All, Rejoice!” Concordia Adult Choir

Epistle Lesson 1 Corinthians 5:6-8

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8Let us therefore celebrate

4 the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

“The Feast of Victory” Lutheran Worship pages 161-164

This is the feast of victory for our God. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Worthy is Christ, The Lamb who was slain, Whose blood sets us free to be people of God. This is the feast of victory for our God. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Power, riches, wisdom and strength, And honor, blessing, and glory are His. This is the feast of victory for our God. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Sing with all the people of God, And join in the hymn of all creation. Blessing, honor, glory, and might Be to God and the Lamb forever. Amen.

This is the feast of victory for our God. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! For the Lamb who was slain Has begun His reign. Alleluia! This is the feast of victory for our God. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

Holy Gospel Mark 16:1-8

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go 5 and anoint him. 2And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” 4And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large. 5And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. 6And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him. 7But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.” 8And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.

“He’s Alive” Duet by Natalie Stuckey and Bekah Mumm

“From A Wake to Awake” Psalm 139:18, 5, 1

I. From Friday to Sunday II. From Sleeping to Waking III. From Death to Life

Offering

Prayer

P: O God of life and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to Your abundant grace You have begotten us again to a new and living hope by the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. C: You have transformed the night of doubt and sorrow into the eternal day of joy and gladness. 6 P: You have brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. For this we give You thanks, O Lord. C: You have delivered Your Son, who died for our sins, from the grip of death and have raised Him by Your power.

P: That which was sown in weakness, You raised in power and glory. C: We praise You, O God, that You have removed from us the sting of death and brought us victory over the grave.

P: Fill our hearts with the joy of the resurrection. C: Grant to Your Church the power of the resurrected Christ.

P: Help us, in all things, to show forth Your praise. C: Fill our homes with the comfort and hope of this day.

P: Let the radiant beams of Easter light shine in the depths of our souls. C: Renew in us the Spirit of Him who is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

P: Visit with Your divine presence those who are alone, those who are ill, those who are in need of our prayers. Watch over our military and all who serve in places of danger. C: We ask all of this in the name of our Risen Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Lord’s Prayer

Benediction

P: Christ is risen!

7 C: He is risen indeed. Alleluia!

P: The good Lord go before you to lead you, behind you to encourage you, beside you to befriend you, beneath you to uphold you, above you to protect you, within you to inspire you; go with the peace and power of Almighty God; in the name of the Father and of  the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

“Make Songs of Joy” Lutheran Worship # 132

Make songs of joy to Christ, our head; Alleluia! He lives again who once was dead! Alleluia!

Our life was purchased by His loss; Alleluia! He died our death upon the cross. Alleluia!

O death, where is your deadly sting? Alleluia! Assumed by our triumphant King! Alleluia!

And where your victory, O grave, Alleluia! When one like Christ has come to save? Alleluia!

Behold, the tyrants, one and all, Alleluia! Before our mighty Savior fall! Alleluia!

For this be praised the Son who rose, Alleluia! The Father, and the Holy Ghost! Alleluia!

Easter Breakfast will be served in the Commons. 8