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March 23, 2025​

Third Sunday in Lent

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PIANO PRELUDE                 “A Shelter in the Time of Storm”  By Ira Sankey

CHIMES

WELCOME

HYMN SING              “Jesus, Lover of My Soul“                      #222

                          by Charles Wesley and Joseph Parry

                         “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy“          #115

                    By Lizzie S. Tourjee and Frederick W. Faber

                                  “Wonderful Grace of Jesus“                   #114

                                            By Haldor Lillenas

*CALL TO WORSHIP (Please join responsively)

Loving God, you made this whole world and you made us to live in it. In Jesus, you even became a person like us to show us the way back to you.

Help us to know Jesus today as we sing and pray and listen; through Jesus we pray. Amen.

*HYMN               “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”         #608

CALL TO CONFESSION

PRAYER OF CONFESSION (Unison)

Merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart and mind and strength. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. In your mercy, forgive what we have been, help us amend what we are, and direct what we shall be, that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways to the glory of your Holy Name.

SILENT PRAYER OF CONFESSION

ASSURANCE OF PARDON           

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION                                                            

FIRST SCRIPTURE READING   1 Corinthians 10:1-13 NT, p 180

MUSIC                              “Thy Word”  By Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith

SECOND SCRIPTURE READING                  Luke 13:1-9 NT, p. 77

SERMON                                 “Repent!”

                                                 Rick Baun

HYMN            “Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy”             #428

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH  (Unison)    The Apostles Creed

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting.  Amen

MUSIC           “Lord Listen to Your Children Praying   By Ken Medema”

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE & THE LORD’S PRAYER     (Debts & Debtors)

INVITATION TO THE OFFERING

OFFERTORY          “All Things Bright and Beautiful“

                                   English melody arr. by Kimball

                                   Green Hill Handbell Ensemble

*DOXOLOGY                                                                                 #382

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION (Unison)

“Almighty Father, as we present these offerings before You, we surrender our hearts in gratitude. May our gifts be a reflection of our thankfulness for Your abundant blessings. Teach us to give with joy, knowing that everything comes from You.”[1]

 

From today’s scripture reading: 1Cor. 10:3-4 “And all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink.  For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.”

*HYMN                   “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me”                                                                        #108

*CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

*BENEDICTION RESPONSE “God Be With You Till We Meet Again (Vs. 1)                                                        #523

POSTLUDE