Worship Service Bulletin
A Service for the Lord’s Day
2nd Sunday in Lent
(*Please stand in body or in spirit)
The Instrumental Prelude and Time for Meditation
Announcements, Rev. Hana Elliott
Celebrations and the Birthday Song,
Happy birthday, happy birthday, your friends are all singing.
May the year that is coming bring gladness to you.
May it teach you to be helpful, kindhearted, and loving.
Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to you.
*Call to Worship: (1)
Leader: Who is it that you seek?
People: We seek the Lord our God.
Leader: Do you seek Him with all your heart?
People: Amen. Lord, have mercy.
Leader: Do you seek Him with all your soul?
People: Amen. Lord, have mercy.
Leader: Do you seek Him with all your mind?
People: Amen. Lord, have mercy.
Leader: Do you seek Him with all your strength?
People: Amen. Christ, have mercy
*Hymn #62 “We Praise Thee, O God, Our Redeemer”
*Call to Confession:
The Lord is our light and our salvation; whom shall we fear? With humble hearts, let us confess our sins before God and one another, first in silence, and then aloud together.
*Prayer of Confession:
(Begin with individual silent prayer before joining in unison)
Merciful God, you have made us citizens of heaven, but we confess that we have set our minds on earthly things. We have let our desire for security restrain our commitment to serve the poor. We have let our fear of danger curb our obligation to love our enemies. We have let our love of things dull our generosity to the needy. We have let our craving for public status prevent our honesty about hidden sins. Yet, you know the desires of our heart and nothing is hidden from you. By the power of the Holy Spirit, conform our sin-weakened bodies to the glory of Christ, that we may be the body of Christ for the world.
*Assurance of Forgiveness:
God, our light and our salvation, does not forsake us or leave us with our sin. In Christ we are forgiven and offered the gift of healing repentance. Thanks be to God!
*The Gloria #108, In Unison
Glory be to the Father
And to the Son and to the Holy Ghost
As it was in the beginning,
Is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen
*Passing of the Peace:
Through Christ God was pleased to reconcile all things, by making peace through the blood of the cross. May the peace of Christ be with you. And also with you.
Prayer for Illumination:
God of abundant life, your grace is our daily bread. Nourish us by your Word and fill us with your Spirit so that we may grow in faith and love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
First Scripture Reading: Psalm 27:1, 7-14 (pg. 858)
Second Scripture Reading: Luke 13:31-35 (pg. 1632)
Leader: This is the word of the Lord.
People: May our thanks and praise be to God.
Children’s Message, Blake Burch
Sermon: “Where Are We Going”
*Hymn #357 “Under His Wings”
*Affirmation of Faith: (2)
Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess to the glory of God: Jesus Christ is Lord! Amen.
Call to Offering:
All that we seek to accomplish, all that we strive to achieve, all that we claim to possess—all of this amounts to nothing without the grace of Christ. Let us offer our lives to the Lord.
Offering: Monetary gifts may be placed in the offering plates as they are passed through the pews.
*Doxology #109
Praise God from whom all blessing flow,
Praise God all creatures here below,
Praise God above ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*Prayer of Dedication:
Let us pray: O God, we have beheld your goodness to us. Accept the offering of the work of our hands, an use us for the sake of Christ, in whose name we pray. Amen.
Prayers of the People: (3)
…Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
Choral Response,
Hear our prayer, O Lord, hear our prayer, O Lord,
Incline thine ear to us, and grant us thy peace. Amen
*Hymn #400 “Jesus Calls Us O’er the Tumult”
*Charge & Blessing:
*Choral Response: “Go, My Children, with My Blessing”
Go, my children, fed and nourished, closer to me.
Grow in love and love by serving, joyful and free.
Here my Spirit’s power filled you;
here my tender comfort still you.
Go, my children, fed and nourished, joyful and free.
*The Choral Amen:
Amen, Amen, Amen.
(1) adapted from the Northumbria Community website. http://northumbriacommunity.org/offices/morning-prayer/
(2) Philippians 2:5-11
(3) adapted from Christine Jerrett and Richard J. Fairchild.