ORDER OF WORSHIP March 18, 2018 5 th Sunday of Lent Please sign and pass the Friendship Book ( pew pad ) where you can also record any prayer requests. Our prayer is that you will experience the presence of the Living God as we worship together. We invite you to focus your heart and mind in worship. * indicates please stand as you are able. WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS Tom Tiffany PRELUDE Prelude in E Minor BWV 555 Organ J.S. Bach Tom Tiffany Jesus said, When I am lifted up, I will draw all people to myself. Blessed be the God of our salvation who bears our burdens and forgives our sins. CALL TO WORSHIP *SONGS OF WORSHIP: BLESSED BE YOUR NAME (VERSE 1) In the land that is plentiful Where your streams of abundance flow (VERSE 2) When I'm found in the desert place Though I walk through the wilderness (PRE-CHORUS) Every blessing you pour out I'll turn back to praise When the darkness closes in Lord still I will say (CHORUS) Blessed be the name of the Lord Blessed be the name of the Lord Blessed be your glorious name
(VERSE 3) When the sun's shining down on me When the world's all as it should be (VERSE 4) On the road marked with suffering Though there's pain in the offering (PRE-CHORUS) Every blessing you pour out I'll turn back to praise When the darkness closes in Lord still I will say (CHORUS) Blessed be the name of the Lord Blessed be the name of the Lord Blessed be your glorious name (BRIDGE) You give and take away You give and take away My heart will choose to say Lord blessed be your name. (REPEAT CHORUS) CCLI Song No. 3798438 2002 Thankyou Music (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) Beth Redman Matt Redman For use solely with the SongSelect Terms of Use. All rights Reserved. www.ccli.com CCLI License No. 296507 I AM NOT SKILLED TO UNDERSTAND (Hymn #480) (VERSE 1) I am not skilled to understand what God has willed, what God has planned; I only know as his right hand stands one who is my Savior. (VERSE 2) I take him at his word and deed: Christ died to save me, this I read; and in my heart I find a need of him to be my Savior.
TIME OF PRAYER (VERSE 3) That he should leave his place on high and come for sinners here to die; you find it strange? So once did I before I knew my Savior. (VERSE 4) I hope that Christ my Lord may see fulfillment of his work in me; and with his child contented be, as I with my dear Savior. (VERSE 5) Yes, living, dying, let me bring my strength, my comfort from this spring: that he who lives to be my King once died to be my Savior. Bill Colvin Call to Confession Let us pray for the cleansing of our hearts, confessing our sins to the One whose mercy is everlasting. Prayer of Confession Redeeming God, we confess that we have not loved you with our whole heart, and have not loved our neighbors as we ought; we have strayed from your commandments. Do not remember our sins, but forgive our iniquities, that we may fix our eyes on you and sin no more, through Christ our Lord. Amen. [Silent Prayer] Declaration of Forgiveness Sisters and brothers, by the faith of Christ, your sins are forgiven. May you delight in the joy of your salvation.
ANTHEM And God Shall Wipe Away All Tears Eleanor Daley Choir PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE Elder Tom Tiffany OFFERING OF OURSELVES & OUR GIFTS Invitation to the Offering Bill Colvin Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and takes on new life, it remains just a single grain. With grateful hearts, let us bring the fruit of our lives to God. *Doxology Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise him, all creatures here below Praise him above ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen. Prayer of Thanksgiving/Dedication As the high priest Melchizedek blessed Abraham and offered his tithe of bread and wine at your holy altar, may our gifts be made perfect through Christ to glorify you and bless the world. Amen. You may bring your offering and/or light a candle at the front or back of the sanctuary. The children are excused at this time to attend Junior Chapel. Offertory Flute & Organ Beneath the Cross of Jesus Arr. Lani Smith PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION Your Word, O God, has power to change our lives and to create a whole new world. As we meditate on your word this day, fill us with your Holy Spirit, that we may treasure your word with our whole hearts and fix our eyes on you. Amen.
READING OF THE SCRIPTURES Karen Colvin Jeremiah 31:31 34 (NIV) 1 The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them, declares the Lord. 33 This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, Know the Lord, because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. Mark 8:27 38 (NIV) 27 Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, Who do people say I am? 28 They replied, Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets. 29 But what about you? he asked. Who do you say I am? Peter answered, You are the Messiah. 30 Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.
31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. 32 He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. Get behind me, Satan! he said. You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns. 34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father s glory with the holy angels. MESSAGE Jesus the Christ Brenna Stanfield *SONG OF WORSHIP: THE SOLID ROCK (Hymn #517) (VERSE 1) My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus name. (REFRAIN) On Christ the solid Rock I stand;
all other ground is sinking sand; all other ground is sinking sand. (VERSE 2) When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest on his unchanging grace; in every high and stormy gale my anchor holds within the veil. (REPEAT REFRAIN) (VERSE 3) His oath, his covenant, his blood support me in the whelming flood; when all around my soul gives way he then is all my hope and stay. (REPEAT REFRAIN) (VERSE 4) When he shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in him be found, dressed in his righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne. (REPEAT REFRAIN) BENEDICTION Brenna Stanfield POSTLUDE Fugue in E Minor BWV 555 Organ J.S. Bach * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In the pulpit today: Brenna Robinson Stanfield went to Mead High school, attended Whitworth University, and received her MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary. She worked previously as a youth director in Stanwood, WA and as an associate pastor in Boise, Idaho. She now teaches Bible & Theology classes at Whitworth University, where her husband, Alan, coaches football. They spend most of their time watching over their four small children who keep them quite busy and very grateful.
Today s Lectionary Readings Jeremiah 31:31 34 Hebrews 5:5 10 Psalm 51:1 12, 17 22 John 12:20 33 or Psalm 119:9 16 Questions for Reflection God is at work offering forgiveness, showing mercy, and giving knowledge of life, death, and salvation. Where is God enacting that new life within or around you? What in your life must die so that you may flourish? What must fall away so that you can rise again in Christ? Household Prayer: Morning Loving God, you offer the gift of new life each day. Open my heart to receive this grace that I may be wholly yours, then give me the courage to share this gift wherever I go as I seek to walk in your way of mercy, forgiveness, and newness of life. Amen. Household Prayer: Evening Forgiving God, who makes all things new, you know where I have flourished this day, and you know where I have failed. Help me to know that in all my challenges there is a seed of hope that enables me to more faithfully depend on you. May I rest in peace this night and awake refreshed to greet the newness of your day. Amen. The Morning & Evening Household Prayers and Questions for Reflection are reprinted by permission of Westminster John Knox Press from Feasting on the Word Worship Companion. 2014