Charlene P. Kammerer - "Thine Is the Glory" Easter Service 8:30 am (April 22, 1984)
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(organ music plays) | 0:03 | |
(orchestra music plays) | 10:54 | |
(choir sings along with music) | 12:41 | |
- | Easter morning, the beginning | 22:04 |
of a new week, the celebration of a new age, | 22:07 | |
the anniversary of the death of death. | 22:12 | |
Jesus is Lord, not a figure in a book, but a risen presence. | 22:16 | |
Not a good man now dead, but the risen savior. | 22:22 | |
The Lord is risen; he is risen indeed. | 22:27 | |
In the power of his life-giving spirit, | 22:31 | |
let us worship God, and to that one God, | 22:34 | |
let us confess our sin. | 22:38 | |
Eternal God, when our eyes are too full of our own visions, | 22:53 | |
when our ears are too full of our own sounds, | 22:59 | |
when our mouths are too full of our own wisdom, | 23:03 | |
when our hearts are too full of our own concerns, | 23:06 | |
break through, liberate us | 23:10 | |
from the narrow worlds which constrict our soul. | 23:13 | |
Liberate us from the fear which blinds us | 23:17 | |
to the newness of your work on the horizon. | 23:20 | |
Liberate us from the occupation with the trivial | 23:24 | |
and uneasiness with what is great. | 23:27 | |
Liberate us into the kingdom of God. | 23:30 | |
Bring us through birth and rebirth, | 23:34 | |
through giving and forgiving, | 23:38 | |
through loving and loving kindness, | 23:40 | |
through using us and preparing us for use, | 23:43 | |
through judgment and grace into your kingdom, | 23:47 | |
through Christ our risen Lord, amen. | 23:52 | |
My sisters, my brothers, hear, believe the good news. | 23:57 | |
There is no power, no person, no thing | 24:04 | |
that can separate us from God's love. | 24:08 | |
Come to us in Christ Jesus our Lord. | 24:10 | |
In him we are saved, quickened, made whole again. | 24:15 | |
On this new morning, experience God's presence. | 24:21 | |
Savor God's grace. | 24:27 | |
You are forgiven; you are free at last. | 24:30 | |
Free to live life afresh and with hope. | 24:35 | |
Let us give thanks, for God is good, | 24:41 | |
and God's love is everlasting. | 24:45 | |
Thanks be to God. | 24:49 | |
By his love we have been made. | 24:51 | |
Thanks be to God. | 24:53 | |
By his Grace we have been made whole. | 24:55 | |
Thanks be to God. | 24:59 | |
By whose resurrection of Christ | 25:01 | |
we are promised life everlasting, amen. | 25:03 | |
- | Let us pray. | 25:15 |
O God, you who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, | 25:20 | |
shine into our hearts to give the light | 25:26 | |
of the knowledge of your glory | 25:29 | |
in the face of Jesus Christ, amen. | 25:31 | |
The Old Testament lesson is from Exodus, chapter 14: 10-14. | 25:37 | |
When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel | 25:46 | |
lifted up their eyes, and behold, | 25:48 | |
the Egyptians were marching after them, | 25:52 | |
and they were in great fear, and the people of Israel | 25:55 | |
cried out to the Lord, and they said to Moses | 25:58 | |
is it because there are no graves in Egypt | 26:02 | |
that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? | 26:05 | |
What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? | 26:10 | |
Is not this what we said to you in Egypt? | 26:14 | |
Let us alone, and let us serve the Egyptians, | 26:17 | |
for it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians | 26:21 | |
than to die in the wilderness. | 26:24 | |
And Moses said to the people fear not, stand firm, | 26:28 | |
and see the salvation of the Lord, | 26:33 | |
which he will work for you today, | 26:36 | |
for the Egyptians whom you see today, | 26:39 | |
you shall never see again. | 26:42 | |
The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be still. | 26:45 | |
Here ends the reading from the Old Testament. | 26:50 | |
The Epistle lesson is from Colossians, chapter 3:1-11. | 26:55 | |
If then you have been raised with Christ, | 27:04 | |
seek the things that are above | 27:07 | |
where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. | 27:09 | |
Set your minds on things that are above, | 27:14 | |
not on things that are on Earth. | 27:17 | |
For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. | 27:21 | |
When Christ, who is our life, appears, | 27:25 | |
then you also will appear with him in glory. | 27:29 | |
Put to death, therefore, what is Earthly in you. | 27:33 | |
Fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, | 27:36 | |
and covetousness, which is idolatry. | 27:42 | |
On account of these the wrath of God is coming. | 27:45 | |
In these you once walked when you lived in them, | 27:49 | |
but now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, | 27:53 | |
slander, and foul talk from your mouth. | 27:58 | |
Do not lie to one another. | 28:03 | |
Seeing that you have put off the old nature | 28:05 | |
with its practices and have put on the new nature, | 28:07 | |
which is being renewed in knowledge | 28:11 | |
after the image of its creator. | 28:13 | |
Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, | 28:16 | |
circumcised and uncircumcised, | 28:18 | |
barbarian, Scythian, slave, free-man, | 28:21 | |
but Christ is all and in all. | 28:25 | |
Here ends the reading from the Epistle lesson. | 28:29 | |
(choir sings) | 28:46 | |
Will the congregation please stand | 35:32 | |
for the reading of the Gospel lesson? | 35:34 | |
The Gospel lesson is from Matthew, chapter 28:1-10. | 35:46 | |
Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn | 35:52 | |
of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene | 35:55 | |
and the other Mary went to see the sepulcher, | 35:58 | |
and behold, there was a great earthquake, | 36:01 | |
for an angel of the Lord descended from Heaven | 36:04 | |
and came and rolled back the stone and sat upon it. | 36:07 | |
His appearance was like lightning | 36:12 | |
and his raiment white as snow, | 36:14 | |
and for fear of him the guards trembled | 36:16 | |
and became like dead men, but the angel said | 36:19 | |
to the women, do not be afraid, for I know | 36:23 | |
that you seek Jesus who was crucified. | 36:26 | |
He is not here, for he has risen as he said. | 36:30 | |
Come, see the place where he lay. | 36:35 | |
Then, go quickly and tell his disciples | 36:37 | |
that he has risen from the dead, | 36:39 | |
and behold, he is going before you to Galilee. | 36:41 | |
There you will see him, lo I have told you. | 36:45 | |
So they departed quickly from the tomb | 36:49 | |
with fear and great joy and ran | 36:51 | |
to tell his disciples, and behold, | 36:54 | |
Jesus met them and said hail, and they came up | 36:56 | |
and took hold of his feet and worshipped him. | 36:59 | |
Then Jesus said to them, do not be afraid. | 37:03 | |
Go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee, | 37:06 | |
and there they will see me. | 37:09 | |
Here ends the reading from the Gospel lesson, amen. | 37:12 | |
(organ plays) | 37:17 | |
(choir sings) | 37:25 | |
- | So they departed quickly from the tomb | 38:26 |
with fear and great joy and ran to tell the disciples. | 38:29 | |
Let us pray. | 38:35 | |
Open our hearts and minds, O God. | 38:40 | |
We pray to receive once again the glory of your resurrection | 38:43 | |
and the promise of life eternal, amen. | 38:49 | |
What we have to do on Easter day | 38:56 | |
is to think ourselves back into the mood | 39:00 | |
of that first Easter morning. | 39:03 | |
David Reed has said that the real question | 39:07 | |
of Easter is to rediscover for ourselves | 39:10 | |
what it is that made the disciples glad. | 39:14 | |
You can safely bet that at first they were not glad. | 39:19 | |
I'm afraid for many of us, having seen Passion plays, | 39:25 | |
we all have a kind of a picture in our minds | 39:30 | |
of women weeping and despondent disciples | 39:34 | |
suddenly rejoicing in the fact of an empty tomb. | 39:38 | |
Surely it was not so. | 39:43 | |
It took a long while for the unbelievable reality | 39:47 | |
of that event to break through. | 39:52 | |
I am aware that all the Easter stories | 39:56 | |
in the Gospel begin with darkness and deep sorrow. | 39:59 | |
Stunned people were simply unable to believe | 40:05 | |
what they had seen and felt on a hill. | 40:09 | |
Even more so, some followers of Jesus | 40:13 | |
had deserted him and were thoroughly ashamed. | 40:17 | |
Peter himself had denied knowing him | 40:22 | |
and was hiding out in the hills somewhere out of sight. | 40:25 | |
The women came down early in the morning | 40:31 | |
when the Sabbath was ended, the spices ready in their hands. | 40:34 | |
They were ready to anoint his body, | 40:40 | |
a ritual they had been denied earlier. | 40:43 | |
It was the grave they expected, not a garden. | 40:46 | |
It was a funeral they expected, not a festival, | 40:51 | |
and their first reaction was not of gladness. | 40:57 | |
It was of fear. | 41:01 | |
It was terror. | 41:02 | |
This mixture of fear and joy is most fully captured | 41:05 | |
in Matthew's account of the scene at the empty tomb. | 41:11 | |
He has carefully placed the sequence of events | 41:16 | |
for our hearing after the crucifixion of Jesus. | 41:20 | |
We learned through Matthew's telling of the tale | 41:25 | |
that Joseph of Arimathea had gone to Pilot, | 41:29 | |
had asked for the privilege of having the body of Jesus. | 41:33 | |
And after himself wrapping it carefully | 41:38 | |
in a line shroud, he laid it in his own tomb, | 41:42 | |
rolling a great stone to the door of it. | 41:47 | |
Matthew reminds us that official action was taken | 41:51 | |
by Pilot to secure the tomb of Jesus. | 41:56 | |
Already rumors were abroad in Jerusalem | 42:00 | |
that Jesus's disciples would try to steal the body, | 42:04 | |
and thus Pilot ordered a guard of soldiers to seal the stone | 42:08 | |
and to stand watch over this particular tomb. | 42:14 | |
Matthew wants us to sense | 42:20 | |
the mighty presence of God at work. | 42:22 | |
In spite of all the precautions Pilot took | 42:26 | |
and the whole of the Roman Empire, nothing, | 42:31 | |
absolutely nothing could prevent God's action | 42:35 | |
in the resurrection event. | 42:40 | |
The writer Matthew was intent on answering charges | 42:43 | |
that the resurrection was simply a hoax, | 42:47 | |
and so he tells us compellingly about the earthquake | 42:51 | |
and the angel appearing who rolled away the stone. | 42:56 | |
In fear, we learn that the guards simply became catatonic, | 43:01 | |
but Mary Magdalene and Mary, | 43:07 | |
mother of James and Joseph, | 43:11 | |
were reassured by this astounding angel, | 43:13 | |
this messenger of hope from God. | 43:17 | |
On that first Easter morning, those women | 43:22 | |
trudged to the tomb as if it were the dead-end | 43:26 | |
of all the hopes they had had in Jesus. | 43:31 | |
For them, this was the last lap in a futile race, | 43:36 | |
the last mile in the Boston marathon, | 43:41 | |
and no one was waiting with them. | 43:45 | |
They were determined to cross the finish line | 43:49 | |
to live out their dream of this Jesus. | 43:52 | |
They would anoint the body and be done with it. | 43:57 | |
Their love for Jesus was still strong, | 44:01 | |
but their faith in him had been crushed, | 44:05 | |
and suddenly, these women on their journey were shaken | 44:09 | |
by the Earth underneath their feet, | 44:15 | |
and an angel comes to them | 44:19 | |
and says to them do not be afraid. | 44:22 | |
Now the angel encourages the women again, | 44:27 | |
and they run off, down the path | 44:30 | |
that had surely seemed so long just a few moments before. | 44:33 | |
Yes, they were terribly confused and terribly frightened, | 44:39 | |
but life for them was no longer meaningless, | 44:45 | |
and as they hurried down the road, | 44:50 | |
Jesus was suddenly with them. | 44:52 | |
Not dead, not hanging from the cross, | 44:56 | |
but near, alive, greeting them | 45:00 | |
in the same manner he always had. | 45:04 | |
No wonder they worshipped him. | 45:07 | |
No wonder they knelt and held him and touched him. | 45:11 | |
Jesus released them and said do not be afraid. | 45:17 | |
Go and tell. | 45:22 | |
Not only was Jesus alive now, | 45:26 | |
but these women were alive again. | 45:29 | |
They were now running and hoping | 45:33 | |
and laughing and wonder-filled. | 45:35 | |
Running to the tell the disciples all they had seen. | 45:39 | |
We learned the women hurried on their way. | 45:44 | |
Most of the disciples through that first dismal Easter day | 45:49 | |
were sorely miserable, but little by little, | 45:55 | |
through the confusing and then the conflicting rumors, | 46:00 | |
the truth, | 46:05 | |
the truth about Jesus broke through for them, | 46:07 | |
and then, then it is that the disciples were made glad. | 46:11 | |
Now every Easter morning, the empty tomb | 46:18 | |
and the resurrection confront us once again, | 46:22 | |
and we ask the question, | 46:27 | |
what does this cross mean? | 46:30 | |
How do we account for it, | 46:34 | |
this compelling attractiveness | 46:37 | |
of the Christ who has been raised from the dead, | 46:40 | |
and how is it that the execution | 46:44 | |
of a young revolutionary Jew centuries ago | 46:48 | |
has challenged our minds and haunted our hearts ever since. | 46:53 | |
Easter for us is not simply | 47:00 | |
the recollection of a past event. | 47:03 | |
It is not even its representation in word and sacrament | 47:07 | |
and pageantry as the gathered community of faith, | 47:12 | |
for Easter somehow must celebrate | 47:18 | |
our own participation | 47:21 | |
in the risen life of Christ. | 47:24 | |
That life for us as Christians is initiated in baptism. | 47:27 | |
It is nourished in Holy Communion. | 47:33 | |
It is born out of the struggle and suffering of community. | 47:36 | |
It seems to me that resurrection in the Bible | 47:42 | |
has never been a private affair | 47:46 | |
or an individual experience, but it is | 47:49 | |
an act of God for the people of God. | 47:53 | |
It is first and foremost for us a sign | 47:58 | |
of God's sovereign presence, for you see, | 48:02 | |
the whole life story of Jesus is interpreted | 48:07 | |
as an act of God's own self-communication, | 48:11 | |
and the crucifixion had to be a radical calling | 48:16 | |
into question of the validity of that word | 48:21 | |
and that life | 48:25 | |
by the very contemporaries of Jesus, | 48:27 | |
and the resurrection in turn is God's vindication | 48:30 | |
of the validity of that word and that life. | 48:36 |
- | Christ stood for, in His earthly life, | 0:03 |
came clear in the resurrection. | 0:07 | |
The body of Christ is not simply the continued influence | 0:10 | |
of a figure in past history, or His teaching and example. | 0:16 | |
It is rather the continuation of that same word and work | 0:22 | |
through you and me. | 0:28 | |
Easter, then, must celebrate our own participation | 0:32 | |
in the risen life of Christ. | 0:37 | |
Jesus believed in human nature. | 0:41 | |
And that's what the cross means. | 0:45 | |
Jesus believed in humanity so much | 0:48 | |
that He bowed His head and died in the confidence | 0:52 | |
that all of humanity was worth dying for. | 0:56 | |
He actually believed that people had it in them | 1:01 | |
to be the children of God. | 1:06 | |
To walk the high path of life that He had opened. | 1:09 | |
And His righteous cause He felt could be entrusted | 1:14 | |
in faulty human hands. | 1:19 | |
That was incredible faith. | 1:22 | |
Is it not precisely the kind of faith | 1:26 | |
that we need on this Easter day? | 1:30 | |
Is the resurrection hope? | 1:35 | |
The resurrection story a lie? | 1:37 | |
I confess it must be true. | 1:41 | |
Because I have known and felt and seen | 1:45 | |
the power of the risen Christ. | 1:49 | |
How many, many times have I witnessed | 1:52 | |
the breaking of the bread of life in this community? | 1:56 | |
How many times have we lifted up | 2:02 | |
the cup of joy and sorrow together? | 2:05 | |
When hopes have been dashed, successes fleeting, | 2:09 | |
exhaustion apparent, | 2:14 | |
disappointment and failure set in, | 2:17 | |
when death has come for someone who is loved so very much, | 2:21 | |
life becomes awful. | 2:27 | |
Life itself then seems like the worst, horrible, | 2:30 | |
most plotting reality. | 2:35 | |
Lent and loneliness always, always come | 2:40 | |
before Easter morning. | 2:44 | |
But then, the light of a loving presence, | 2:48 | |
a caring act, | 2:53 | |
a forgiving word breaks through. | 2:55 | |
And Jesus proclaims to us once again, | 2:59 | |
do not be afraid. | 3:03 | |
Anything, anything can happen now. | 3:05 | |
For Jesus the Christ has put an end to death and despair | 3:10 | |
for all of us who believe in Him. | 3:15 | |
There has been a running dialogue in the student newspaper, | 3:21 | |
the Chronicle, recently among students | 3:24 | |
who are deeply questioning the meaning of life. | 3:28 | |
Coincidentally, perhaps, during Holy Week, | 3:34 | |
it seemed to me that the logical arguments about God | 3:38 | |
in that newspaper became so focused and intense. | 3:43 | |
Declarations of belief in God and unbelief | 3:49 | |
are being made all around us. | 3:54 | |
Meanwhile, I am aware that some people | 3:59 | |
are taking their faith very seriously. | 4:02 | |
And living out of the power of the resurrection. | 4:07 | |
While other 11 year olds are doing homework, or watching TV, | 4:12 | |
Trevor Farrell and his parents | 4:18 | |
have been spending their evenings | 4:21 | |
ministering to derelicts in the City of Brotherly Love. | 4:23 | |
For dozens of street people in Philadelphia, | 4:29 | |
the appearance of the Farrell van with food, warm clothes, | 4:33 | |
pillows, and blankets, and mostly human love and contact | 4:38 | |
is a slant of light in the darker side | 4:44 | |
of these people's lives. | 4:48 | |
That all started, my friends, | 4:51 | |
when Trevor saw a TV news segment last December | 4:54 | |
about the city's homeless. | 4:59 | |
He says, "I couldn't believe that people lived that way. | 5:02 | |
"I knew there were some poor people, | 5:07 | |
"but I thought they were in India, not here." | 5:09 | |
New life, new hope has blossomed from the efforts | 5:14 | |
of one small boy | 5:19 | |
who is taking seriously Jesus's command | 5:22 | |
to love, identify with, and help the poor. | 5:25 | |
For nearly three years now, | 5:32 | |
a ragtag band of women demonstrators | 5:34 | |
have been capturing headlines around the world | 5:38 | |
simply by camping just outside the gate | 5:41 | |
to protest deployment of U.S. made missiles. | 5:46 | |
This week, British police converged on them at the main gate | 5:51 | |
of the Royal Air Force Base at Greenham Common. | 5:55 | |
And I've learned that at week's end | 6:00 | |
groups of women had already returned | 6:02 | |
to the perimeter of the Air Base | 6:05 | |
with their sleeping bags and provisions. | 6:08 | |
Could it be, could it be | 6:12 | |
that their actions, | 6:17 | |
seemingly insignificant, are the mouths of babes | 6:18 | |
speaking wisdom to our own human folly | 6:23 | |
and bent toward self destruction? | 6:27 | |
Nothing, nothing has changed so many lives | 6:33 | |
as Calvary and the cross. | 6:37 | |
For it represents to me | 6:41 | |
an unbelievable faith in humankind. | 6:43 | |
If you have lost faith in yourself, He hasn't. | 6:48 | |
If you have lost faith in people, He hasn't. | 6:54 | |
If you have lost confidence in the future, He hasn't. | 6:58 | |
Jesus never lost faith in people. | 7:03 | |
He never despaired of human nature. | 7:07 | |
Nor in the future. | 7:11 | |
Nor in the triumph of His own cause, | 7:13 | |
the righteousness of God. | 7:17 | |
Not even at the cross where He was beaten down | 7:20 | |
by the same kind of brutality | 7:25 | |
that is making cynics of people like you and me today. | 7:28 | |
On this Easter day, we need to hear again | 7:34 | |
and proclaim joyfully with the disciples | 7:38 | |
who were able to come to the place of joy. | 7:42 | |
We proclaim aloud with Christians everywhere. | 7:46 | |
Low, it is Jesus who meets Thee, risen from the tomb. | 7:51 | |
Lovingly He greets thee. | 7:56 | |
Scatters fear and gloom. | 7:59 | |
Let His church with gladness hymns of triumph sing. | 8:02 | |
For the Lord now liveth. | 8:07 | |
Death has lost its sting. | 8:10 | |
Thine is the glory, risen, conquering Son. | 8:13 | |
Endless is the victory | 8:18 | |
Thou o'er death has won. | 8:21 | |
Alleluia and amen. | 8:25 | |
- | Having heard God's good news declared, | 8:39 |
let us now unite in this historic confession | 8:42 | |
of the Christian faith. | 8:45 | |
(with congregation) I believe in God the Father Almighty, | 8:56 | |
Maker of heaven and earth. | 8:59 | |
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord. | 9:02 | |
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, | 9:05 | |
born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, | 9:08 | |
was crucified, dead, and buried. | 9:13 | |
The third day He rose from the dead. | 9:16 | |
He ascended into Heaven and sitteth | 9:19 | |
at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. | 9:21 | |
From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. | 9:24 | |
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, | 9:28 | |
the Communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, | 9:33 | |
the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. | 9:37 | |
Amen. | 9:41 | |
The Lord be with you. | 9:44 | |
- | And with your spirit. | 9:45 |
- | Let us pray. | 9:47 |
Vast God, incarnate One, now the suffering Servant | 10:00 | |
broken on the tree, now the God assaulting death | 10:06 | |
for the sake of each of us, triumphals trumpets declare You. | 10:10 | |
Bells, clamorous songs, all breath and tongues | 10:17 | |
across the earth, the earth itself praise Your resurrection. | 10:21 | |
To be praised are You, O Creating One. | 10:27 | |
Out of Whose divine imaginings spins the cosmos. | 10:30 | |
And this earth, whose rivers wander to the sea, | 10:36 | |
whose valleys resound with pregnant silences, | 10:40 | |
whose mountains are the mountains of Your divine laughter. | 10:44 | |
Receive from us, O Lord, the joy above every joy. | 10:49 | |
For by Your Easter You awaken all peoples | 10:54 | |
from deathly slumber. | 10:57 | |
Release our hearts from fear. | 11:00 | |
Teach us the ways of Your compassion. | 11:03 | |
And thus we give You our thanks. | 11:07 | |
That all flesh shall stand at last, loved, forgiven, | 11:10 | |
beckoned to dwell in the presence of the risen Christ. | 11:19 | |
O Lord and giver of life, on this Easter morning | 11:25 | |
cause us to see ourselves, not as of the old creation, | 11:29 | |
but anew in the mirror of resurrection. | 11:35 | |
Enable us to open our timid souls to the glad tidings, | 11:39 | |
the glad tidings of this day. | 11:44 | |
Strengthen us to live empowered | 11:47 | |
by the energy of resurrection. | 11:49 | |
Make us to eagerly walk as a people | 11:52 | |
who share in the joyful noises of victory. | 11:56 | |
Who anticipate the day when disease is conquered, | 11:59 | |
all wars ended, and hatred is no more, | 12:04 | |
and every selfish concern is crowded out by Your presence. | 12:09 | |
O wooing One, Who intends that every moment | 12:17 | |
be alive with Easter, | 12:20 | |
enter our prayers that we speak as a resurrection people, | 12:23 | |
longing, hoping, expecting what we ask. | 12:28 | |
Do keep our concerns worthy of our calling. | 12:35 | |
Make our flesh and wills ready to act on our words. | 12:40 | |
And be unto all who are afflicted their source of mercy. | 12:46 | |
That the aches and fevers of the body may be healed. | 12:52 | |
The mind's dark terrors made to flee. | 12:56 | |
The heart's loneliness vanished. | 13:01 | |
And as we pray to You for all in the world | 13:05 | |
that requires mending, we ask especially | 13:07 | |
that the world be rebuked, chastened, | 13:12 | |
loved into discovering again its true purpose | 13:16 | |
in praising You and loving all others. | 13:20 | |
Through Jesus the Christ, our risen redeeming Lord, | 13:26 | |
and the One Who gives to His sisters and brothers | 13:31 | |
this prayer: | 13:34 | |
(with congregation) Our Father Who art in Heaven, | 13:36 | |
hallowed be Thy name. | 13:40 | |
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done | 13:42 | |
on earth as it is in Heaven. | 13:46 | |
Give us this day our daily bread. | 13:49 | |
And forgive us our trespasses | 13:52 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 13:54 | |
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. | 13:58 | |
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, | 14:03 | |
and the glory forever. | 14:07 | |
Amen. | 14:10 | |
(slow horn, drum, and organ music) | 14:21 | |
♪ Mighty grace a debt I owe ♪ | 15:02 | |
♪ Death has no mortal claim ♪ | 15:11 | |
♪ God covered it ♪ | 15:20 | |
(dramatic horn, drum, and organ music) | 15:26 | |
♪ Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia ♪ | 15:39 | |
♪ Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia ♪ | 15:45 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 15:50 | |
(organ music) | 15:52 | |
♪ Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia ♪ | 16:00 | |
♪ Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia ♪ | 16:08 | |
♪ Christ the Lord is risen ♪ | 16:15 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 16:17 | |
♪ Jesus Christ is risen ♪ | 16:21 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 16:23 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 16:27 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 16:29 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 16:33 | |
♪ Alleluia Christ is risen ♪ | 16:36 | |
♪ Alleluia Christ is risen ♪ | 16:38 | |
♪ Jesus Christ the Lord is risen ♪ | 16:40 | |
♪ Jesus Christ the Lord is risen ♪ | 16:43 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 16:45 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 16:47 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 16:49 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 16:53 | |
♪ Jesus Christ is risen ♪ | 17:04 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 17:07 | |
♪ Christ the Lord is risen ♪ | 17:09 | |
♪ Christ is risen ♪ | 17:17 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 17:22 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 17:25 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 17:28 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 17:30 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 17:32 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 17:37 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 17:41 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 17:46 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 17:50 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 17:54 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 17:57 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 18:00 | |
(triumphant music) | 18:05 | |
♪ Rejoice, ye earth, let every song ♪ | 18:20 | |
♪ Shout forth Your glory from the sky ♪ | 18:26 | |
♪ Take forth His city all ye people ♪ | 18:32 | |
(music drowns out lyrics) | 18:38 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 18:45 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 18:48 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 18:52 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 18:53 | |
(triumphant music) | 18:56 | |
(choir singing loudly) | 19:04 | |
(music drowns out lyrics) | 19:05 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 19:30 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 19:32 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 19:41 | |
♪ Christ the Lord is risen ♪ | 19:52 | |
(triumphant horn, drum, and organ music) | 19:58 | |
(organ music) | 20:24 | |
♪ Praise God from Whom all blessing flow ♪ | 20:46 | |
♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪ | 20:52 | |
♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ | 20:59 | |
♪ Praise Him above ye heavenly host ♪ | 21:07 | |
♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ | 21:14 | |
♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ | 21:21 | |
♪ Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia ♪ | 21:28 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 21:35 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 21:44 | |
- | Who we are, O Lord, and what we have we bring. | 21:57 |
Our doubts, fears, failures, yes, but also our trust, | 22:01 | |
our knowledge, our eagerness to minister. | 22:05 | |
To let You, in love, reach the world through us. | 22:09 | |
And our money we bring too. | 22:13 | |
Not to earn Your favor, | 22:16 | |
but as a means of enabling Your compassion to abound. | 22:17 | |
And Your kingdom to come. | 22:21 | |
And the holy day of Your shalom to hasten its arrival. | 22:24 | |
To this end we dedicate ourselves and our gifts | 22:29 | |
and ask Your blessing in Jesus's name and for His sake. | 22:32 | |
Amen. | 22:38 | |
(organ music) | 22:41 | |
♪ The day of resurrection ♪ | 23:19 | |
♪ Earth, tell it all abroad ♪ | 23:24 | |
♪ The passover of gladness ♪ | 23:28 | |
♪ The passover of God ♪ | 23:33 | |
♪ From death to life eternal ♪ | 23:37 | |
♪ From sin's dominion free ♪ | 23:42 | |
♪ Our Christ has brought us over ♪ | 23:47 | |
♪ With hymns of victory ♪ | 23:51 | |
♪ Let hearts be purged of evil ♪ | 23:58 | |
♪ That we may see aright ♪ | 24:03 | |
♪ The Lord in rays eternal ♪ | 24:08 | |
♪ Of resurrection light ♪ | 24:12 | |
♪ And, listening to his accents ♪ | 24:17 | |
♪ May hear, so calm and plain ♪ | 24:21 | |
♪ His own "All Hail!" and, hearing ♪ | 24:26 | |
♪ May raise the victor strain ♪ | 24:31 | |
♪ Now let the heavens be joyful ♪ | 24:38 | |
♪ Let earth its song begin ♪ | 24:42 | |
♪ Let all the world keep triumph ♪ | 24:47 | |
♪ And all that is therein ♪ | 24:51 | |
♪ Let all things, seen and unseen ♪ | 24:56 | |
♪ Their notes of gladness blend ♪ | 25:00 | |
♪ For Christ the Lord has risen ♪ | 25:05 | |
♪ Our joy that has no end ♪ | 25:10 | |
♪ Then praise we God the Father ♪ | 25:17 | |
♪ And praise we Christ his Son ♪ | 25:22 | |
♪ With them the Holy spirit ♪ | 25:27 | |
♪ Eternal Three in One ♪ | 25:31 | |
♪ Till all the ransomed number ♪ | 25:36 | |
♪ Fall down before the throne ♪ | 25:40 | |
♪ And honor, power, and glory ♪ | 25:45 | |
♪ Ascribe to God alone ♪ | 25:50 | |
♪ The day of resurrection ♪ | 25:57 | |
♪ Earth, tell it all abroad ♪ | 26:02 | |
♪ The passover of gladness ♪ | 26:07 | |
♪ The passover of God ♪ | 26:11 | |
♪ From death to life eternal ♪ | 26:16 | |
♪ From sin's dominion free ♪ | 26:21 | |
♪ Our Christ has brought us over ♪ | 26:26 | |
♪ With hymns of victory ♪ | 26:31 | |
- | Deep peace of the running wave to you. | 26:41 |
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you. | 26:44 | |
Deep peace of the flowing air to you. | 26:48 | |
Deep peace of the shining stars to you. | 26:51 | |
Deep peace of the Prince of Peace, the risen Savior | 26:54 | |
to each of you this day. | 26:58 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 27:02 | |
(triumphant horn music) | 27:21 | |
(slow organ music) | 29:40 | |
(congregation talking and moving around) | 37:38 |