Service
for 3rd Sunday of Easter
10:30
a.m., April 26, 2009
OPENING SENTENCES from John 20:29
After being raised, Jesus met the disciples and said: “Thus it is written,
that
the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day,
and
that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name
to
all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses to these things….”
As
disciples, we are witnesses.
Variations on Madrid M. Helman
(Commissioned for the 25th Anniversary of
the Overbrook Belles 1999)
WELCOME, REGISTRATION & ANNOUNCEMENTS
CHORAL INTROIT &
LIGHTING THE CHRIST CANDLE
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Who are you?
I am a disciple among disciples, a child of
God in God’s world.
Who will you be?
I don’t know, though God knows.
When will you know?
Now I can see only dimly.
I will know when I am fully known, in God’s company face to face.
*PROCESSIONAL HYMN # 376 Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH from
A Brief Statement of Faith
We trust in
Jesus Christ, fully human, fully God.
Jesus proclaimed the reign of God:
preaching
good news to the poor
and
release to the captives,
teaching
by word and deed
and
blessing the children,
eating
with outcasts, forgiving sinners
and
calling all to repent and believe.
Unjustly condemned for blasphemy and
sedition, Jesus was crucified,
suffering
the depths of human pain
and
giving his life for the sins of the world,
vindicating
his sinless life,
breaking
the power of sin and evil,
delivering
us from death to life eternal.
We
trust in Jesus Christ, fully human, fully God.
*THE PEACE
The peace of the One we trust be with you all.
Peace be with you.
(worshipers greet one another with
words and gestures of the peace of Christ)
PROCLAIM
GOD’S WORD
THE LETTER
1
John 3: 1-7(NRSV)
Pew
Bible New Testament p. 225
ANTHEM I Surrender All arr. M. Hogan
MOMENT WITH THE YOUNG
THE
GOSPEL
Luke
24: 36b – 48 (NRSV)
SERMON “’…anything here to eat?’”
OFFERING OURSELVES TO GOD’S
PURPOSES
Call to Respond
OFFERTORY The Trumpet in the Morning arr. D. Wagner
*RESPONSE #
592 Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow
PRAYERS THANKING AND ASKING GOD, THE LORD’S
PRAYER Hymnal p. 16
*HYMN #
115 Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain
*CHARGE 1 John 3:2-3
Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be
has not yet been revealed.
What we do know is this:
When he is revealed, we will be like him,
for we will see him as he is.
And all who have this hope in him purify themselves;
just as he is pure.
We live in him forming ourselves in his
likeness.
*BLESSING
POSTLUDE Fantasia on “Madrid” (Allegro) J. Weaver
(Note that some will be
seated and others depart in joy and silence.)
|
Liturgists |
Jane Leemhuis, Rev. Jonathan Siehl |
|
Sermon |
William R. Leety |
|
Moment with the
Young |
Hope Boring |
|
Musical
Leadership |
Chancel Chimes Chancel Choir Sarah Shaffer, Choirmaster Nancy Deeth, Organ/Piano |
|
Head Usher |
Dick
Dull |
IN MEMORIAM Margaret D. Hixson May 4, 1918 ~ April 21, 2009 “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, though they die, will live.” -John 11:25