Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025
April 20, 2025
Morning Worship
Morning Worship
Welcome & Announcements
Prelude
Call to Worship Pastor: Christ is Risen!
Congregation: He is risen indeed!
Pastor: Christ is Risen!
Congregation: He is risen indeed!
Pastor: Christ is Risen!
Congregation: He is risen indeed!
Invocation
*Hymn No. 277 Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
*Confession of Faith (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 45) Q. What does the “resurrection” of Christ profit us? First, by his resurrection he has overcome death, that he might make us partakers of that righteousness which he had purchased for us by his death; secondly, we are also by his power raised up to a new life; and lastly, the resurrection of Christ is a sure pledge of our blessed resurrection.
*Hymn No. 276 Up from the Grave He Arose
Confession of Sin (unison) Almighty and most merciful Father,
We have erred and strayed from your ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against your holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us. O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare those, O God, who confess their faults. Restore those who repent, according to your promises declared to mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord. And grant, O merciful Father, for his sake, that we may, from now on, live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of your holy name. Amen.
Assurance of Pardon 1 John 2:1–2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Scripture Reading John 4:1–26
Pastoral Prayer
(Please sign and pass the registration pad at the end of the row)
Musical Offering I Will Rise The Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra, Pure Joy, Katheryn Rubio, piano
*Doxology No. 731 Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heav’nly host: praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Children’s Devotion (Children will return to their seats)
Sermon The Boundless Grace of God Dr. Barry Matthew 15:21–31
*Hymn No. 286 Crown Him! – Crown Him with Many Crowns
*Benediction
*Benediction Response Hallelujah! (from “Messiah”)
*Please stand if you are able.
Evening Worship
Evening Worship
Welcome
Call to Worship Philippians 2:5–11 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made for himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Invocation
*Hymn No. 275 The Strife Is O’er, the Battle Done
Scripture Reading Romans 6:1–11 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Prayer of Confession (responsive) Risen Christ, though the world despised and rejected you, you responded with grace, humility, and welcome. Though the proud questioned your power, and devised your death, you responded with peace, forgiveness, and new life. Forgive us, O Lord, our arrogance, and our selfishness. Forgive us our scheming, and our violence. Forgive us, Merciful One. We are like them. In your great mercy make us like you.
Assurance of Pardon 1 Corinthians 15:54–57 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pastoral Prayer
*Hymn No. 281 I Know That My Redeemer Lives––Glory, Hallelujah!
Sermon The Great Reversal Pastor Moore Esther 8:1–17
*Hymn No. 274 Thine Be the Glory
Benediction
*Please stand if you are able.
Morning Worship
Welcome & Announcements
Prelude
Call to Worship Pastor: Christ is Risen!
Congregation: He is risen indeed!
Pastor: Christ is Risen!
Congregation: He is risen indeed!
Pastor: Christ is Risen!
Congregation: He is risen indeed!
Invocation
*Hymn No. 277 Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
*Confession of Faith (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 45) Q. What does the “resurrection” of Christ profit us? First, by his resurrection he has overcome death, that he might make us partakers of that righteousness which he had purchased for us by his death; secondly, we are also by his power raised up to a new life; and lastly, the resurrection of Christ is a sure pledge of our blessed resurrection.
*Hymn No. 276 Up from the Grave He Arose
Confession of Sin (unison) Almighty and most merciful Father,
We have erred and strayed from your ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against your holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us. O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare those, O God, who confess their faults. Restore those who repent, according to your promises declared to mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord. And grant, O merciful Father, for his sake, that we may, from now on, live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of your holy name. Amen.
Assurance of Pardon 1 John 2:1–2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Scripture Reading John 4:1–26
Pastoral Prayer
(Please sign and pass the registration pad at the end of the row)
Musical Offering I Will Rise The Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra, Pure Joy, Katheryn Rubio, piano
*Doxology No. 731 Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below; praise him above, ye heav’nly host: praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Children’s Devotion (Children will return to their seats)
Sermon The Boundless Grace of God Dr. Barry Matthew 15:21–31
*Hymn No. 286 Crown Him! – Crown Him with Many Crowns
*Benediction
*Benediction Response Hallelujah! (from “Messiah”)
*Please stand if you are able.
Evening Worship
Welcome
Call to Worship Philippians 2:5–11 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made for himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Invocation
*Hymn No. 275 The Strife Is O’er, the Battle Done
Scripture Reading Romans 6:1–11 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Prayer of Confession (responsive) Risen Christ, though the world despised and rejected you, you responded with grace, humility, and welcome. Though the proud questioned your power, and devised your death, you responded with peace, forgiveness, and new life. Forgive us, O Lord, our arrogance, and our selfishness. Forgive us our scheming, and our violence. Forgive us, Merciful One. We are like them. In your great mercy make us like you.
Assurance of Pardon 1 Corinthians 15:54–57 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pastoral Prayer
*Hymn No. 281 I Know That My Redeemer Lives––Glory, Hallelujah!
Sermon The Great Reversal Pastor Moore Esther 8:1–17
*Hymn No. 274 Thine Be the Glory
Benediction
*Please stand if you are able.
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