Resurrection Quartet

Sabbath, March 26, 2016

Prelude

Angelica Prodan, Organist

Lavinia Nastasa, Pianist
Christ the Lord is Risen Today, arr. M. Ham/K. Varner
Welcome


Shiphrah Fepuleai

Worship in Praise


Congregation
Joyful, We Adore Thee

Invocation



Gabriel Katrib

Childrens Song God Has a Plan Caleb & Faith Iordan

Childrens Story

Pauline Thompson

Worshipping in Giving
George Dobrota

Offertory
Angelica Prodan and Lavinia Nastasa
Slava (Glory) op. 11, no. 6, by S. Rachmaninoff

Responsive Praise

Lourdes Gudmundsson


Leader
Christ is Risen!

Congregation He is risen indeed!

Leader

Jesus said, I am the resurrection

and the life; he who believes in
me, will live, even though he
dies; and whoever lives and
believes in me will never die. Do
you believe this?

Resurrection Quartet
There was one resurrection; there are four narratives of it.
Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John tell the story, each in his own
way. Each narrative is distinct and has its own character.
When the four accounts are absorbed into the imagination,
they develop rich melodies, harmonies, counterpoint. The
four voices become a resurrection quartet.

Matthew

Congregation Because Christ is alive, our fear

of death is past, and the future
is filled with hope!

Leader

Where, O death is your victory?

Where, O death is your sting?

Congregation Death has been swallowed in

victory!

ALL

Thanks be to God, who gives us

the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!

Instrumental Music
Gianluca Gibbons, Saxophone
Center of My Joy, by Richard Smallwood

Julio Tabuenca

Music

Passover Singers

Christ the Lord is Risen Today 1

Mark

Viana Vidales

Mark gives us one of the most dramatic scenes, They went

out and fled from the tomb; for trembling and astonishment
had come upon them; and they said nothing to anyone, for
they were afraid: (16:8)

Music

Passover Singers

Christ the Lord is Risen Today 2

Luke

Shiphrah Fepuleai

Luke wants us to understand the resurrection. He develops his

material in a manner designed to expand our imagination so it
can take in the immense scope of the resurrection. The
resurrection, in other words, is comprehensive. It takes the
scattered pieces of mans historical-religious-cultural life and
puts them all together.

Music

John

Passover Singers

Christ the Lord is Risen Today 3

The eye-catching in Matthews narrative is, There was a

great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from
heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat upon it
(28:2).

Cristian Iordan

Johns story is designed to persuade: These are written that

you may believe that Jesus is the Christ (20:31). Believe in
Johns lexicon is a union of intellectual comprehension and
life commitment.

Special Music My Tribute Wintley Phipps, (video)

Benediction

Lourdes Gudmundsson

Postlude

Angelica Prodan, Organist
Lavinia Nastasa, Pianist
All Hail the Power of Jesus Name,
arr. M. Ham/K. Varner