Welcome to our worship for Easter Day 2022. Jesus is alive and we shall live with him. Let’s begin with Charles Wesley’s great Easter Hymn:

Our reading today is from Luke 24, beginning at verse 1:

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the
tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone
rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find
the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this,
behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. 5 And as they were
frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them,
“Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but has
risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that
the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be
crucified and on the third day rise.” 8 And they remembered his words,
9 and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven
and to all the rest. 10 Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary
the mother of James and the other women with them who told these
things to the apostles, 11 but these words seemed to them an idle
tale, and they did not believe them. 12 But Peter rose and ran to the
tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves;
and he went home marvelling at what had happened.

Talk – “Why seek ye the living among the dead?”

Now we sing “Thine be the glory!”

Let’s close by saying the grace for each other: