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CTW: early on the first day of the week

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Call to Worship     (John 20:1 and Psalm 118:19-23)
Leader One: Early on the first day of the week…
Leader Two: Open to us your gates of righteousness,
All: That we may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
Leader One: While it was still dark…
Leader Two: This is the gate of the Lord;
All: The righteous shall enter through it.
Leader One: Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw…
Leader Two: We thank you that you have answered us;
All: We thank you that you have become our salvation.
Leader One: …that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
Leader Two: The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
All: This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes!
Submitted by Rev. Martha Spong, First Congregational Church, North Yarmouth Maine.

Sunday’s Coming: working towards Easter…

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This week on LL we’ll be working sort of “backwards-ish” through Holy Week. Today we’ll be thinking about what we need for the “big” Easter services–things we need to print in a bulletin–as well as thinking through Easter Sunrise, for those of us who do that. (watch for a sunrise post later today, when we’ll be far more awake than we will Sunday morning at 6-7-8am!

Tomorrow we’ll be creating for Friday and Thursday. Wednesday be sure to stop in for conversation about an Easter Vigil.

Of course, you can always check out the conversations already ongoing by clicking the sidebar links!

 

SO: Easter morning’s big service. What time is your big service? What mood are you going for? How do you decorate? Which Easter story are you reading (Mark? John? one of the others?)? If you’re going with Mark, are you stopping at the shorter ending or adding one of the longer endings?

What creative elements will be part of your Easter service? What very traditional elements will you have? (We always end with the Hallelujah Chorus.) What new thing would you like to try to introduce this year, or what’s something unusual you hope to convey? (besides that someone rose from the dead, which is pretty unusual in itself!)

Drop your words, themes, images, phrases, or seeds-of-ideas into the comments and let’s write some liturgy together!

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Call to Worship: Can You Believe It?

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Leader: Christ is risen!
People: Christ is risen, indeed!
Leader: Can you believe it? Is it true? The women went to the tomb, and they came back saying that Jesus was raised from the dead! Christ is risen!
People: Christ is risen, indeed!
Leader: Can you believe it? What does it mean? He is stronger than any power, even the power of death! Christ is risen!
People: Christ is risen, indeed!
Leader: Can you believe it? What should we do? If we believe it, this news would change our lives, and it could even change the world! I need to say it over and over again, just to let it sink in. Christ is risen!
People: Christ is risen, indeed!
ALL: ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA! ALLELUIA! LET US PRAISE THE LORD!

Submitted by Rev. Eric Beene, White Bluff Presbyterian Church, Savannah, Georgia.

an opening prayer for Easter

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One: We come rushing to the empty tomb,
though we do not understand.
All: We come looking, hoping, praying
for new life against all odds.
One: We come singing Alleluias,
for light is streaming out of the darkness!
All: May our Alleluias ring out
as we rush to follow the risen Christ into the world!
Alleluia! Amen!

Submitted by Rev. Teri Peterson, Ridgefield-Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church.