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PRELUDE“Messiah Overture- Allegro“ (G. F. Handel)String Quartet Pastor: Christ is risen!All: He is risen indeed!Pastor: Christ is risen!All: He is risen indeed!Pastor: Christ is risen!All: He is risen indeed, alleluia! WELCOME HYMN“Jesus Christ is Risen Today”ELW # 365 Pastor: Christ is Risen!ALL: He is risen indeed, alleluia! PRAYER OF THE DAYO God, you gave your only Son to suffer death on the cross for our redemption, and by his glorious resurrection you delivered us from the power of death. Make…

PRELUDE“Now All the Vault of Heaven Resounds” (arr. Tim Graf)Tim Graf Pastor: Christ is risen!ALL: He is risen indeed!Pastor: Christ is risen!ALL: He is risen indeed!Pastor: Christ is risen!ALL: He is risen indeed, alleluia! WELCOME HYMN“Jesus Christ is Risen Today” ELW # 365 Pastor: Christ is Risen!ALL: He is risen indeed, alleluia! PRAYER OF THE DAYO God, you gave your only Son to suffer death on the cross for our redemption, and by his glorious resurrection you delivered us from…

PRELUDE“O Sacred Head Now Wounded”Orchestra WELCOME CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESSOn this day, looking to the cross, we gather to acknowledge the ways that we have broken the world— ways of isolation, selfishness, and hoarding,ways of fear and hunger for influence,ways of self-doubt, ways of sin. We gather to acknowledge the ways that the world has broken us—ways of division and might-makes-right,ways of inequity and injustice,ways of empire, ways of sin. The way of the cross calls us to confess our sin,…

WELCOME SONG“At the Cross”Spirit Singers, Jill Boyd (Director) DIALOGUE CONGREGATIONAL SONG“Were you there?” (Verse 1) DIALOGUE CONGREGATIONAL SONG“Were you there?” (Verse 2) DIALOGUE CONGREGATIONAL SONG“Were you there?” (Verse 3) READINGMark 15:33-39 When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” When some of the bystanders heard it, they said,…

PRELUDE“Were You There” (arr. Jacqueline Hairston)Rachel Calvert, Tim Graf WELCOME CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESSOn this day, looking to the cross, we gather to acknowledge the ways that we have broken the world— ways of isolation, selfishness, and hoarding,ways of fear and hunger for influence,ways of self-doubt, ways of sin.We gather to acknowledge the ways that the world has broken us—ways of division and might-makes-right,ways of inequity and injustice,ways of empire, ways of sin. The way of the cross calls us to…

PRELUDETim Graf WELCOME HOLY WEEK CONFESSIONAs we walk through the week we call holy, we remember a God who is good, a God who celebrates with us, who dines with us, and for whom death does not have the final word. In this week we call holy, set aside time for us to confess, to say we’re sorry, to see what is wrong in our world, and hear the story of Jesus’ life, which is life for us anew. (Silence…

WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP SONG  “King of Glory” CHILDREN’S MESSAGE SONG“Let the Light In” PRAYERS OF GOD’S PEOPLE THE LORD’S PRAYER READINGLuke 19:28-40 After he had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden.…

PRELUDE“Crown Him with Many Crowns” (arr. Bill Holcombe)Jodi Edstrom, Tim Graf WELCOME PROCESSIONAL GOSPELLuke 19:28-40 After he had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, saying, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it…

WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP SONG  “Living in the Overflow” SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION WORDS OF INSTITUTION THE LORD’S PRAYER COMMUNION SONG“Do It Again”   Penny Meier, Elliana Meier, Tim Graf POST-COMMUNION PRAYER READINGMatthew 6:25-34 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow…

PRELUDE“Canzonetta” (William Walton)Rachel Calvert, Tim Graf                                 WELCOME CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESSBlessed be the holy Trinity, ☩ one God,who forgives all our sin,whose mercy endures forever.Amen. Let us return to God, confessing our sin in the assurance of God’s abiding love. Silence is kept for reflection. Most merciful God,we confess that we are captive to sin and cannot free ourselves. We have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and by what we have left undone. We have…

WELCOME/CALL TO WORSHIP SONGS  “House of the Lord” “The Way” PRAYERS OF GOD’S PEOPLE THE LORD’S PRAYER READINGMatthew 6:19-24 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The eye is the lamp of the body. So,…

PRELUDE“Lord Jesus, Think on Me” (arr. Anne Krentz Organ)Jodi Edstrom, Barb Carroll WELCOME CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESSBlessed be the holy Trinity, ☩ one God,who forgives all our sin,whose mercy endures forever.Amen. Let us return to God, confessing our sin in the assurance of God’s abiding love. Silence is kept for reflection. Most merciful God,we confess that we are captive to sin and cannot free ourselves. We have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and by what…