Easter 2025 Worship Guide

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April 20, 2025

EASTER SUNDAY

 

Series: Hebrews: Jesus Is Greater

Message: Greater Resurrection

Scripture Reference: Hebrews 11:32-40 (ESV)

 

WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

CALL TO WORSHIP

Based on 1 Peter 1:3-5

 

Leader: Alleluia! Christ is risen.

All: He is risen indeed. Alleluia!

Leader: Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

All: He has given us new life and hope. He has raised Jesus from the dead.

Leader: God has claimed us as His own.

All: He has brought us out of darkness. He has made us light to the world.

Leader: Alleluia! Christ is risen.

All: He is risen indeed. Alleluia!

 

SONGS OF ADORATION & PRAISE

Christ the Lord Is Risen Today

“Christ the Lord is ris’n today,” Al- -le-luia!

Sons of men and angels say; Al- -le-luia!

Raise your joys and triumphs high; Al- -le-luia!

Sing ye heav’ns, and earth, reply. Al- -le-luia!

 

Vain the stone, the watch, the seal; Al- -le-luia!

Christ has burst the gates of hell: Al- -le-luia!

Death in vain forbids his rise; Al- -le-luia!

Christ has opened paradise. Al- -le-luia!

 

Lives again our glorious King; Al- -le-luia!

Where, O death, is now thy sting? Al- -le-luia!

Once he died, our souls to save; Al- -le-luia!

Where thy victory, O grave? Al- -le-luia!

 

Soar we now where Christ has led, Al- -le-luia!

Foll’wing our exalted Head; Al- -le-luia!

Made like him, like him we rise; Al- -le-luia!

Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Al- -le-luia!

 

Hail, the Lord of earth and heav’n! Al- -le-luia!

Praise to thee by both be giv’n; Al- -le-luia!

Thee we greet triumphant now; Al- -le-luia!

Hail, the Resurrection, thou! Al- -le-luia!

 

Living Hope – Johnson & Wickham

How great the chasm that lay between us

How high the mountain I could not climb

In desperation I turned to heaven

And spoke Your name into the night

Then through the darkness Your loving-kindness

Tore through the shadows of my soul

The work is finished the end is written

Jesus Christ my living hope

 

Who could imagine so great a mercy

What heart could fathom such boundless grace

The God of ages stepped down from glory

To wear my sin and bear my shame

 

The cross has spoken I am forgiven

The King of kings calls me His own

Beautiful Savior I’m Yours forever

Jesus Christ my living hope

 

CHORUS:

Hallelujah praise the One who set me free

Hallelujah death has lost its grip on me

You have broken every chain

There’s salvation in Your name

Jesus Christ my living hope

(repeat all)

 

Then came the morning that sealed the promise

Your buried body began to breathe

Out of the silence the Roaring Lion

Declared the grave has no claim on me

(repeat all)

 

Jesus Yours is the victory

 

CHORUS

 

Jesus Christ my living hope

Oh God You are my living hope

 

PRAYER OF CONFESSION AND HOPE

From “Resurrection” in The Valley of Vision

 

Leader: O God of Our Exodus, great was the joy of Israel’s sons, when Egypt died upon the shore, far greater the joy when the Redeemer’s foe lay crushed in the dust.

All: Jesus strides forth as the victor, conqueror of death, hell, and all opposing might;

Leader: He bursts the bands of death, tramples the powers of darkness down, and lives forever.

All: Give me the assurance that in Christ I died, in Him I rose, in His life I live, in His victory I triumph, in His ascension I shall be glorified.

Leader: Adorable Redeemer, You who were lifted up upon a cross are ascended to the highest heaven.

All: You, who as Man of Sorrows were crowned with thorns, are now as Lord of Life wreathed with glory.

Leader: Once, no shame more deep than Yours, no agony more bitter, no death more cruel.

All: Now, no exaltation more high, no life more glorious, no advocate more effective.

Leader: You are in the triumph car leading captive Your enemies behind You.

All: What more could be done than You have done! Your death is my life, Your resurrection my peace, Your ascension my hope, Your prayers my comfort.

 

ASSURANCE OF PARDON

1 Corinthians 15:54-57

 

Leader: Death has been swallowed up in victory. “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

SONG OF THANKS

Christ Is Risen, He Is Risen IndeedCash, Getty & Getty

How can it be the One who died

Has borne our sin through sacrifice

To conquer every sting of death

Sing sing hallelujah

 

When Christ’s disciples lift their eyes

Alive He stands their Friend and King

Christ Christ He is risen

 

CHORUS:

Christ is risen He is risen indeed

Oh sing hallelujah

Join the chorus sing with the redeemed

Christ is risen He is risen indeed

 

Where doubt and darkness once had been

They saw Him and their hearts believed

But blessed are those who have not seen

Yet sing hallelujah

 

Once bound by fear now bold in faith
They preached the truth and power of grace
And pouring out their lives they gained
Life life everlasting

CHORUS

 

The power that raised Him from the grave

Now works in us to powerfully save

He frees our hearts to live His grace

Go tell of His goodness

CHORUS (2 times)

 

He’s alive (He’s alive) He’s alive (He’s alive)

Heaven’s gates are opened wide

He’s alive (He’s alive) He’s alive (He’s alive)

Now in heaven glorified

(repeat all)

 

CHORUS (2 times)

 

CONNECT & PRAYER REQUESTS

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WORSHIP THROUGH GIVING

1.           Give online at: calvarypca.org/giving

2.          Mail or bill pay to: Calvary PCA, 6520 Ray Rd Raleigh NC 27613

3.           Place your gift in the “Tithes & Offering box

 

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER

 

SCRIPTURE READING

Hebrews 11:32-40

 

MESSAGE

Greater Resurrection Pastor Nate Wilks

 

SONG OF REFLECTION

Death Was Arrested – Kersh, Coker, Balltzglier & Taylor Smith

Alone in my sorrow and dead in my sin

Lost without hope and no place to begin

Your love made a way to let mercy come in

When death was arrested and my life began

 

Ash was redeemed only beauty remains

My orphan heart was given a name

My mourning grew quiet my feet rose to dance

When death was arrested and my life began

 

CHORUS:

Oh Your grace so free washes over me

You have made me new now life begins with You

It’s Your endless love pouring down on us

You have made us new now life begins with You

 

Released from my chains I’m a pris’ner no more

My shame was a ransom He faithfully bore

He cancelled my debt and He called me His friend

When death was arrested and my life began

CHORUS

 

Our Savior displayed on a criminal’s cross

Darkness rejoiced as though Heaven had lost

But then Jesus arose with our freedom in hand

That’s when death was arrested and my life began

CHORUS

 

Oh we’re free, free, forever we’re free

Come join the song of all the redeemed

Yes we’re free, free, forever amen

When death was arrested and my life began

(repeat all)

 

When death was arrested and my life began

When death was arrested and my life began

 

CONFESSION OF FAITH

Nicene Creed

 

Leader: Christian, what do you believe?

All: I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. Who, for us people and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

 

And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceeds from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.

 

And I believe in one holy catholic* and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

 

*catholic=universal

 

SACRAMENT OF COMMUNION

 

COMMUNION SONG

Behold the Lamb – Getty, Getty & Townend

Behold the Lamb who bears our sins away

Slain for us – and we remember

The promise made that all who come in faith

Find forgiveness at the cross

So we share in this bread of life

And we drink of His sacrifice

As a sign of our bonds of peace

Around the table of the King

 

The body of our Savior Jesus Christ

Torn for you – eat and remember

The wounds that heal, the death that brings us life

Paid the price to make us one

So we share in this bread of life

And we drink of His sacrifice

As a sign of our bonds of love

Around the table of the King

 

The blood that cleanses every stain of sin

Shed for you – drink and remember

He drained death’s cup that all may enter in

To receive the life of God

So we share in this bread of life

And we drink of His sacrifice

As a sign of our bonds of grace

Around the table of the King

 

And so with thankfulness and faith we rise

To respond – and to remember

Our call to follow in the steps of Christ

As His body here on earth

As we share in His suffering

We proclaim Christ will come again

And we’ll join in the feast of heaven

Around the table of the King

 

BENEDICTION

 

DOXOLOGY

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;

Praise him, all creatures here below;

Praise him above ye heav’nly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

 




 

SERMON NOTES Greater Resurrection

 

 

1.           P_______________________ of Resurrection (32-34)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.          P___________________ of Resurrection (35-38)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.           P_______________________ of Resurrection (39-40)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONNECT WITH CALVARY!

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Calvary Presbyterian Church of America

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