Service for the 3rd Sunday in Lent
GATHER IN GOD’S NAME
WORDS ABOUT PRELUDE
PRELUDE
CARILLON, WELCOME,
REGISTRATION, ANNOUNCEMENTS
CHORAL INVOCATION # 82 O Lamb of God Most Holy!
*CALL TO WORSHIP on
Psalm 95: 1-7 (BCW)
Leader: Come,
let us sing to the Lord:
let us shout for joy to the Rock
of our salvation.
People: Let us
come before God’s presence with thanksgiving
and raise a loud shout to
the Lord with psalms.
Leader: For
the Lord is a great God, and a great Sovereign above all gods.
People: The Lord holds the caverns of the earth,
and sustains the heights of
the hills.
Leader: The sea belongs to God, who made it,
whose hands have molded the dry land.
People: Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee,
and kneel before the Lord
our Maker.
Leader: For the Lord is our God,
and we are the people of God’s pasture and the sheep of God’s hand.
Oh, that today you would hearken to God’s voice!
*LIGHTING THE CHRIST CANDLE
*PROCESSIONAL HYMN #
Leader:
God says:
Harden not your hearts, as your
ancestors did in the wilderness,
…when they tempted me.
They put me to the test, though
they had seen my works.
People: Forty years long I detested that generation
and said,
“This people are wayward in
their hearts;
they do not know my ways”
Leader:
So I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter into my rest.”
Unison: Lord, protector and strength:
You guide us as sheep of your fold.
In your goodness sustain us, that our hearts may never be hardened
through unbelief of your holy
Word,
but that we may serve you in
true and living faith
and so enter your heavenly
rest; through Jesus Christ.
(time for
silent confession of our hard heartedness) Amen.
*RESPONSE #
Leader: We are the people of God’s pasture
and the sheep of God’s hand.
People: In our Shepherd, we are forgiven, and made to lie down and rest
in good pasture.
Leader:
The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
People: Peace be with you.
(Worshipers exchange words and gestures
of peace)
PROCLAIM GOD’S WORD
SERMON “Rock” RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD
Call to Respond
Offertory
*Doxology #592 Praise
God From Whom All Blessings Flow
*Prayer of Dedication
PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND
INTERCESSION, THE LORD’S PRAYER
*HYMN #
*CHARGE & BENEDICTION
*CONG. RESPONSE # 81 (verse 4) Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days
*POSTLUDE
*Congregation stands as able
Next Week’s Script. Readings: 1 Sam. 16: 1-13; Ps. 23; Eph. 5: 8-14; John 9: 1-41
|
Sermon |
William R.
Leety |
|
Word with Children |
Jonathan C.
Siehl |
|
Musical Leadership |
Chancel Choir Sarah Shaffer,
Director |