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Easter Sunday Service - Christ is Risen!

Join us for our Easter Sunday service at OPC Cambridge Chimes. We will have hymns, prayers, scripture readings, and a message of hope and forgiveness.

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Easter Sunday Service - Christ is Risen!

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  1. May 5, 2019 Welcome to OPC

  2. Cambridge Chimes Welcome and Announcements Greeting Each Other Ringing of the Bell

  3. Prelude “When Morning Gilds the Skies” ~BELL CHOIR Lighting of the candles

  4. *CALL TO WORSHIP L: Sisters and Brothers, today is the first day of our week, a new start and a new hope. P: Lord, help us to be ready to hear your words of life this morning and each day.

  5. L: Body of Christ, open your hearts and receive God’s breath of new life. P: Risen Lord, help us to receive your peace and feel our joy for this week.

  6. L: Come everyone, let us worship the Lord with great joy and hope! P: Let us worship God!

  7. *HYMN #104“Christ is Risen! Shout Hosanna!” v.1 Christ is risen! Shout Hosanna! Celebrate this day of days!Christ is risen! Hush in wonder: All creation is amazed.

  8. *HYMN #104“Christ is Risen! Shout Hosanna!” v.1 In the desert all-surrounding, see, a spreading tree has grown.Healing leaves of grace aboundingbring a taste of love unknown.

  9. *HYMN #104“Christ is Risen! Shout Hosanna!” v.2 Christ is risen! Raise your spirits from the caverns of despair.Walk with gladness in the morning.See what love can do and dare.

  10. *HYMN #104“Christ is Risen! Shout Hosanna!” v.2 Drink the wine of resurrection, not a servant, but a friend.Jesus is our strongcompanion.Joy and peace shall never end.

  11. *HYMN #104“Christ is Risen! Shout Hosanna!” v.3 Christ is risen! Earth and heavennevermore shall be the same.Break the bread of new creationwhere the world is still in pain.

  12. *HYMN #104“Christ is Risen! Shout Hosanna!” v.3 Tell its grim, demonic chorus:“Christ is risen! Get you gone!” God the First and Last is with us.Sing Hosanna,everyone!

  13. *PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison) God of empty tombs and empty people: when we hesitate to speak of your hope to a hopeless world, forgive us and give us a voice. When we find it difficult to love one another,

  14. forgive us and give us fresh compassion and concern. When we want to stand with the high and mighty, forgive us and seat us care-fully next to the poor and oppressed. When we act without peace,

  15. change our hearts to carry your Shalom. When we stay locked behind our fears and doubts, forgive us, and send us out to share your grace. When we cannot believe your Word of new life, forgive us, and fill us with your joy.

  16. *Passing of the Peace L: May the Peace of Christ be with you. P: And also with you.

  17. *Assurance of Pardon L: Sisters and Brothers, Christ comes into every shadowed corner of our lives with the light of Easter. Christ comes into the locked rooms of our faults and gifts us with forgiveness and hope.

  18. *Assurance of Pardon P: Christ comes to forgive us and fill us with peace, so we may proclaim the good news of mercy and forgiveness for all. Thanks be to God. Amen.

  19. BELL CHOIR

  20. PROCLAIMING THE WORD SCRIPTURE READING: Isaiah 9:2-7

  21. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness – on them light has shined. You have multiplied the nation, you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as people exult when dividing plunder.

  22. For the yoke of their burden, and the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian. For all the boots of the tramping warriors and all the garments rolled in blood shall be burned as fuel for the fire. For a child has been born for us, a son given to us;

  23. authority rests upon his shoulders; and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. His authority shall grow continually, and there shall be endless peace for the throne of David and his kingdom. He will establish and uphold it with justice and with

  24. righteousness from this time onwards and for evermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

  25. SCRIPTURE READING: John 20:19-31

  26. When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side.

  27. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them;

  28. if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’ But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord.’ But he said to them, ‘Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of

  29. the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.’ A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here and see my hands.

  30. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.’ Thomas answered him, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet havecome to believe.’ Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence

  31. of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.

  32. L: This is the Word of the Lord. P: Thanks be to God!

  33. “Hope Mobilizes” Rev. TeddPullano

  34. *HYMN #316“Breathe on Me, Breath of God” v.1 Breathe on me, breath of God,Fill me with life anew,That I may love what Thou dost love,and do what Thou wouldst do.

  35. *HYMN #316“Breathe on Me, Breath of God” v.2 Breathe on me, breath of God,Until my heart is pure,Until with Thee I will one will,to do and to endure.

  36. *HYMN #316“Breathe on Me, Breath of God” v.3 Breathe on me, breath of God,Till I am wholly Thine,Until this earthly part of meglows with Thy fire divine.

  37. *HYMN #316“Breathe on Me, Breath of God” v.4 Breathe on me, breath of God,So shall I never die,But live with Thee the perfect lifeof Thine eternity.

  38. OFFERING OUR GIFTS TO GOD Offertory Invitation Offertory “Now Thank We All Our God” ~BELL CHOIR

  39. *DOXOLOGY #542, v.4 Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise God all creatures here below; Praise God above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

  40. *PRAYER OF DEDICATION (unison) Gracious and loving God, you raised Jesus from the dead, showing your love for the world. Such a generous act not only showers us with grace, it calls for a response.

  41. We respond with these gifts, and our lives – and we pray your blessing on them. As you sent Jesus, so send us in peace and in the power of your Spirit to reveal your love in all we do and say.

  42. In the name of our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.

  43. RESPONDING TO THE WORD JOYS AND CONCERNS PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

  44. THE SACRAMENT OF THELORD’S SUPPER All who trust in Jesus Christas Lord and Savior areinvited to participate inthe Sacrament of theLord’s Table. With parentalpermission, baptized children are welcometo partake in the Sacrament as well.

  45. *INVITATION TO THE LORD’S TABLE L: Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I invite you to come to the joyful feast of the Lord. When we eat at this table, we share in a meal now. As well, we also take part in a meal both old and new. When we gather here and eat, we eat the meal that Jesus and his disciples ate.

  46. And in doing so, we become those disciples. We sit around the same table. In this holy Meal, we believe that Jesus comes to meet us. And also, while we are in the past with Jesus and the Israelites, while we are in the present with each other, we are also partaking of the future meal –

  47. the resurrection banquet. We sit around this table eating with Jesus as the resurrection people. And it is a peaceful, glorious meal. And each of you are invited.

  48. *HYMN #516“Lord, We Have Come” v.1 Lord, we have come at Your own invitation, Chosen by You, to be counted Your friends;

  49. *HYMN #516“Lord, We Have Come” v.1 Yours is the strength that sustains dedication, Ours a commitment we know never ends.

  50. *THE GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING L: As much as we are loved by God, P: We love each other! L: Beloved of God, come to this Table with your hearts wide open, P: For God has promised to dwell in us. L: Here at the Table of Gracewe are fed by one who loves us.

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