Words: Jim Burklo Tune: Christ the Lord is Risen Today – Easter Hymn 7.7.7.7.
Tune: St. Christopher 76.86.86.86
Jesus is not my scapegoat / for any wrong I’ve done It isn’t fair to place on him / what he had never done
An Easter Journey
A progressive Christian encounter with the Easter story that situates it within the longer story of sacred love and within our lives today.
From the Seasoned Celebration collection
1. The fragrance of Spring lies not in judgement's intervention but in love's nurturing of the interior goodness. 2. Spring is not so much a moment as a movement, a manifestation of the sometimes hidden but always present life-force of God.
Written by William Channing Gannett
Bring, O morn, thy music! Night, thy starlit silence! Oceans, laugh in rapture to the storm-winds coursing free! Suns and planets chorus, praise to all found holy. Life was, and is, and evermore shall be.
From the Festive Worship collection
1. Easter is the festival of the irrepressible God whom not even death can contain. 2. Most of us would prefer a cozy God to a God who shatters our complacency. Yet Easter is about a God who bursts tombs of the familiar, the ordinary and the mediocre.
From the Boundless Life collection
From Good Friday’s gruesome darkness To the rise of Easter Morn Lies a path beyond our coyness, Path that holds the newly born.
For deeper love we spread the bread I won’t be full till all are fed Till every soul has home and bed The rest of us can’t move ahead
From the Boundless Life collection
In between the Cross and Rising, In between our grief and light, Lie the tombs of hibernation, Times of inner healing's might.
Love one another as I love you all; In others’ needs hear my insistent call. I bid you wear with me love’s seamless dress, Welcome the outcast from the wilderness.
From the Boundless Life collection
To our winters Jesus brings Light and warmth and dancing, Melting frozen lives and hearts, Freeing and enhancing.
A bloody cross, a cold stone grave, A gentle man no one could save
Beginning with the traditional opening from Charles Wesley, this moves into a progressive Christian expression of resurrection. Christ the Lord is risen today - Alleluia! Mortal tongues and angels say: - Alleluia!
Lo! Christ is with us, risen from the tomb; Love for one another, conquers hopeless doom; Let the church with gladness, hymns of joy now sing: For with Christ arisen, death hath lost its sting.