FIRST SABBATH IN LENT

11:00 a.m.                                              February 25, 2007

Assemble in God’s Name

Organ Prelude:

 

Choral Introit:

 

Welcome

Concerns of the Church

 

s  Passing the Peace

s Bible Songs: "Dependence on God for Salvation”  #122

Lighting the Candles

Call to Worship (Psalm 41:1-2)

Leader:  The Lord be with you.

People:  And with you also.

Leader:  Blessed are you when you consider the poor.

People: the Lord will deliver you in time of trouble.

Leader:  The Lord will preserve you, and keep you alive.

People:  The Lord will bless you upon the earth

 

Opening Prayer

 

A Prayer of Thanksgiving --Psalm 40:1-10

(See Insert)

 

s Hymnbook: “Praise God, Ye Servants of the Lord”  #19

s Gloria Patri #546

 

Presentation of Tithes and Offerings

 

Offertory

 

s Doxology #544

 

Proclaim God’s Word

Children's Sermon

               Dismissal to Children’s Church (5 and Under)

 

Prayers of the People

 

First Reading: Psalm 41:3-10

 

Anthem

 

Second Reading: Psalm 41:11-13

 

Sermon: "Remote Control”

 

Go in God’s Name

s The Apostles' Creed

 

s Prayer of Thanksgiving

 

s The Lord's Prayer

 

s Hymnbook: "Praise the Lord, His Glories Show” #4

s Extinguishing the Candles

 

s Charge and Blessing

Leader:  May God’s face shine upon you and be gracious to you.

People:  Amen.

Leader:  May God look upon you with kindness and give you peace.

People:  Amen.

Leader:  Let us go forth into the world rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit!

People:  Thanks be to God.

Postlude:

 

s:  all who are able, please stand.


 

 

On this first Sabbath in Lent, we rejoice in your presence with us.  It is here that we can find light for every darkness.  It is here that we can find the blessings and comfort that God alone can offer.  Welcome!

 

Bible Study, Wednesday, February 28, 10 a.m. and  7 p.m.

 

The young people will go bowling this afternoon at 2:00 p.m.

 

Today we conclude the ARP Women’s Ministries Prayer Emphasis program.  For three Sabbaths we have been preaching on prayer, singing about prayer, reading scripture on prayer.  We hope this prayer emphasis has made a contribution to your prayer life.

 


 

Psalm 40:1-10

[1] I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry.

[2] He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.

[3] He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God.  Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD.

[4] Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods!

[5] Thou hast multiplied, O LORD my God, thy wondrous deeds and thy thoughts toward us; none can compare with thee!  Were I to proclaim and tell of them, they would be more than can be numbered.

[6] Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire; but thou hast given me an open ear.  Burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not required.

[7] Then I said, "Lo, I come; in the roll of the book it is written of me;

[8] I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my heart."

[9] I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; lo, I have not restrained my lips,

as thou knowest, O LORD.

[10] I have not hid thy saving help within my heart,

I have spoken of thy faithfulness and thy salvation;

I have not concealed thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness from the great congregation.

 

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