Resurrection Sunday 2022

The New Testament describes the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as an historical event, claiming that a physically dead Jesus rose up from the grave three days after His death on the cross. Over 500 eyewitnesses saw Jesus alive after He came back to life. In one of the earliest New Testament writings, the apostle Paul said many of those eyewitnesses were still alive and could be interviewed by any person choosing to investigate the Resurrection event.

Now, what difference could it make to us if Christ was raised from the dead? Isn’t the whole idea of Easter just a spiritual warm-fuzzy, a metaphor for springtime and renewal, based upon a rehashed pagan celebration and merely designed to prop up the image of a good man who had a very tragic death? Why would it even matter to us that Christ was raised from the dead?

Join Pastor Jim as he explores the significance of the Resurrection and why it provides Christians with an inexhaustible hope even in the midst of an increasingly dark and despairing world. (35:23)

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Songs:

(1:46) "Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates"
George Frideric Handel

(5:05) "Christ the Lord is Risen Today"
Charles Wesley

(8:18) "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name"
Oliver Holden, Edward Perronet & John Rippon

(12:47) "And Can it Be"
Charles Wesley

(20:51) "He Will Hold Me Fast"
Ada Ruth Habershon & Matthew Merker

(29:42) "Is He Worthy"
Andrew Peterson & Ben Shive

(1:05:21) "Christ Our Hope in Life and Death"
Keith Getty, Matt Boswell, Jordan Kauflin, Matt Merker & Matt Papa

(1:10:28) "Doxology"
from "All People that on Earth Do Dwell"
William Kethe

(1:11:50) "Spring" (from "The Four Seasons")
Antonio Vivaldi


(11:33) Call to Worship: Resurrection

Leader: Jesus Christ is risen!
People: Jesus Christ is risen indeed! Alleluia!

Leader: Let us praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
People: He made us a resurrection people by raising Jesus from the dead.

Leader: We celebrate His victory over death.
People: We recognize His presence among us.

Leader: We praise Him for His grace and mercy!
People: We declare our love and devotion to Him!

Leader: Rejoice, then, for He has called you from darkness into light.
People: We will rejoice and give thanks! For Jesus Christ has risen to give us new life! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!


(34:09) Creed: Resurrection Sunday 2022
(SOURCE: Heidelberg Catechism, Questions 1 & 45)

Leader: What is your only comfort in life and death?
People: That I am not my own, but belong - body and soul, in life and in death - to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.

Leader: How does Christ’s resurrection benefit us?
People: First, by His resurrection He has overcome death, so that He could make us share in the righteousness He had obtained for us by His death. Second, by His power we too are raised up to a new life. Third, Christ’s resurrection is to us a sure pledge of our glorious resurrection.