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St. Timothy Lutheran Church Our Lord Our Resurrection of Resurrection If you are a visitor with us today, we welcome you in the name of Christ. We encourage our guests to join us in the communion meal because Jesus welcomes all to his table of grace, uniting and filling us for love and service. Christ is our host and our food, bearing to us God’s forgiveness and grace through this harvest of field and vineyard. Resurrection of Our Lord April 4, 2021 Christ is risen! Jesus is alive, and God has swallowed up death forever. With Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, we may feel astonished and con- fused, unsure of what to make of the empty tomb. But this is why we gather: to proclaim, witness, praise, and affirm the liberating reality of Christ’s death and resurrection. In word and feast, we celebrate God’s unending love, and depart to share this good news with all the world. Alleluia! GATHERING Welcome Thanksgiving for Baptism Pastor: Alleluia! Christ is risen. All: Christ is risen indeed. Alleluia! Pastor: Let us give thanks for the resurrection life we share in Christ. We thank you, risen Christ, for the water of baptism, where you make us new, leading us from death to life, from tears to joy. We bless you, risen Christ, that your Spirit comes to give us rebirth, like rains to our thirsting earth, like streams that revive our souls, like cups of cool water shared with strangers. All: Breathe your peace on your church when we hide in fear. Pastor: Clothe us with your mercy and forgiveness. All: Send us companions on our journey as we share your life. Pastor: Make us one, risen Christ. Cleanse our hearts. All: Shower us with life. Pastor: To you be given all praise, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God, now and forever. All: Amen. Gathering Hymn Jesus Christ is Risen Today #365 vs. 1, 3, & 4 1 Jesus Christ is ris'n today, Alleluia! now above the sky he's king, Alleluia! our triumphant holy day, Alleluia! where the angels ever sing. Alleluia! who did once upon the cross, Alleluia! 4 Sing we to our God above, Alleluia! suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia! praise eternal as his love; Alleluia! 3 But the pains which he endured, praise him, all you heav'nly host, Alleluia! Alleluia! our salvation have procured; Alleluia! Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Alleluia! 2 Greeting Pastor: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. All: And also with you. Song of Praise Now the Feast and Celebration 3 Prayer of the Day Pastor: Let us pray. God of mercy, All: we no longer look for Jesus among the dead, for he is alive and has become the Lord of life. Increase in our minds and hearts the risen life we share with Christ, and help us to grow as your people toward the fullness of eternal life with you, through Jesus Christ, our Savior, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. WORD Children’s Word Pastor Clark Brown Psalm Psalm 118: This Is the Day Please join in singing the refrain. The cantor will sing the verses. 1. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, and declare the works of the Lord. His mercy endures forever; 3. The stone which the builders rejected Let the house of Israel say: has become the cornerstone. “His mercy endures forever.” By the Lord has this been done; 2. The Lord's right hand has struck with it is wonderful in our eyes! power, the Lord’s right hand is exalted; I shall not die, but live 4 Reading 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 The core of the Christian faith and Paul’s preaching is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. As the crucified and risen Christ appeared to the earliest of his followers, so we experience the presence of the Risen One in the preaching of this faith. Lector: A reading from First Corinthians. 1Now I would remind you, brothers and hundred brothers and sisters at one time, sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed most of whom are still alive, though some to you, which you in turn received, in have died. 7Then he appeared to James, which also you stand, 2through which also then to all the apostles. 8Last of all, as to you are being saved, if you hold firmly to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. the message that I proclaimed to you— 9For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to unless you have come to believe in vain. be called an apostle, because I persecuted 3For I handed on to you as of first the church of God. 10But by the grace of importance what I in turn had received: God I am what I am, and his grace toward that Christ died for our sins in accordance me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I with the scriptures, 4and that he was buried, worked harder than any of them—though it and that he was raised on the third day in was not I, but the grace of God that is with accordance with the scriptures, 5and that he me. 11Whether then it was I or they, so we appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. proclaim and so you have come to believe. 6Then he appeared to more than five Lector: Word of God, word of life. All: Thanks be to God. Gospel Acclamation 5 Gospel Mark 16:1-8 The resurrection of Jesus is announced, and the response is one of terror and amazement. Pastor: The holy gospel according to Mark. All: Glory to you, O Lord. 1When the sabbath was over, Mary Magda- side; and they were alarmed. 6But he said lene, and Mary the mother of James, and to them, “Do not be alarmed; you are look- Salome bought spices, so that they might ing for Jesus of Nazareth, who was cruci- go and anoint Jesus’ body. 2And very early fied. He has been raised; he is not here. on the first day of the week, when the sun Look, there is the place they laid him. 7But had risen, they went to the tomb. 3They had go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is been saying to one another, “Who will roll going ahead of you to Galilee; there you away the stone for us from the entrance to will see him, just as he told you.” 8So they the tomb?” 4When they looked up, they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror saw that the stone, which was very large, and amazement had seized them; and they had already been rolled back. 5As they en- said nothing to anyone, for they were tered the tomb, they saw a young man, afraid. dressed in a white robe, sitting on the right Pastor: The gospel of the Lord. All: Praise to you, O Christ. Message Pastor Clark Brown Hymn Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds #367 vs. 1-3 1 Now all the vault of heav'n resounds and by his presence stills all strife. in praise of love that still abounds: "Christ has triumphed! He is living!" "Christ has triumphed! He is living!" Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Sing, choirs of angels, loud and clear! 3 Oh, fill us, Lord, with dauntless love; Repeat their song of glory here: set heart and will on things above "Christ has triumphed! He is living!" that we conquer through your triumph; Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! grant grace sufficient for life's day 2 Eternal is the gift he brings, that by our lives we truly say: therefore our heart with rapture sings: "Christ has triumphed! He is living!" "Christ has triumphed! He is living!" Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Now still he comes to give us life Affirmation of Faith AM: Let us confess together our faith in God’s new day. We know the fear of the upper room. We know the feeling of hard days and long nights. We know the grief of the tomb, And the particular ache of saying goodbye. 6 We know the pain of Good Friday, And we know the darkness before dawn. And still, And still, We believe. We believe that again and again, The sun will rise. Again and again, God will draw near. Again and again, We will march toward justice. Again and again, The tomb will be empty. Again and again, Love will win. Again and again, God will lead the church. Again and again, And again and again, We will be loved. The journey will not be perfect. We will need to rise before dawn. We will need angels along the way. But again and again, The sun will rise. We believe. Amen. Prayers of Intercession Alive in the risen Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, we bring our prayers before God who promises to hear us and answer in steadfast love, responding to each petition with, “Your mercy is great.” Praise to you for your power revealed in the resurrection! Fill your church with the power of your love that is stronger than death. Send us to tell the good news wherever death holds sway. Hear us, O God. Your mercy is great. Praise to you for your life at work in the resurrection! Fill all of creation with your life.