Resurrection Celebration 2025 | Selected scripture texts and songs
There is a Fountain Filled With Blood – A Cappella Harmony Quartet
Thank God for that fountain of cleansing, the blood of Jesus Christ! Today, we commemorate our Lord’s suffering, death, and resurrection, events that dramatically changed the course of human history. Worship with me as we spend the next few moments reflecting on this incredible demonstration of God’s love for you and me.
Here are words from Isaiah, the prophet.
“Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness, and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not esteem Him.”
I Lay My Sins on Jesus – Rosedale Chorale
‘Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement for our peace was upon Him; and by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross – Voice of Praise
“He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who will declare his generation? For he was cut off from the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.”
O Sacred Head Now Wounded – Rosedale Chorale
Then Came the Morning – A Cappella Harmony Quartet
“Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it. His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. And the guards shook for fear of him and became like dead men.
But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”
The Lord is Risen Indeed – Rosedale Chorale
“Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty, and your faith is also empty. Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise—if in fact the dead do not rise. For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If only we have hope in Christ in this life, we are the most pitiable of all men. But now Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the first fruit of those who have fallen asleep.”
Lift Your Glad Voices – Rosedale Chorale
“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both He who sanctifies and those being sanctified are all of one, so He is not ashamed to call them brethren…”
What A Friend We Have In Jesus – Voice of Praise
“Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also, there was no more sea. Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
There is a Fountain Filled With Blood – A Cappella Harmony Quartet
