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- Easter Hymn Sing
- Prelude: Christ is Arisen — setting by Charles Callahan (b. 1951)
- Christ the Lord is Risen again — ELH 344
- Responsive reading: Psalm 118 (selected verses)
Lectern side: The Lord is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.
Pulpit side: The right hand of the Lord is exalted; The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.
All: I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the Lord.
Lectern: The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.
Pulpit: This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.
All: Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. - Organ introduction — setting by Charles Callahan (b. 1951)
- How Rich, at Eastertide — ELH 349
- Responsive reading: Romans 6 (selected verses)
Lectern: Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death,
Pulpit: That just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,
All: Even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Lectern: Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
Pulpit: Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more.
All: Death no longer has dominion over Him.
Lectern: For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all;
Pulpit: but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
All: Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Organ introduction — setting by Jacob B. Weber
- Built on the Rock — ELH 211: 3, 6
- Responsive reading: 1 Corinthians 15 (selected verses)
Lectern: And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!
Pulpit: If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
All: But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. - Now Christ is Risen — ELH 355
Left side: 1, 3, 5, 7 Right side: 2, 4, 6, 8 All 9-10 - Prayer (in unison):
Lord God, heavenly Father, You delivered Your Son for our offenses, and raised Him again for our justification: We beseech You, grant us Your Holy Spirit, that He may rule and govern us according to Your will; graciously keep us in the true faith, defend us from all sins, and after this life raise us to eternal life; through the same, Your beloved Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one true God, now and forever. Amen. - Organ introduction — setting by Jacob B. Weber
- All stand and sing: Awake, My Heart, with Gladness — ELH 341: 6, 8
- Organ Postlude: The Strife is O'er — setting by Wilbur Held (1914-2015)