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Introit - Come All You People, Come and Praise Your Maker – No. 388
Come all you people,
come and praise your Maker;
come all you people,
come and praise your Maker;
come all you people,
come and praise your Maker;
come now and worship the Lord.
Greeting & Announcements
Prelude - Cherished Moments by Jon Schmidt, Loren Tice
Call to Worship
Thirsty, our hearts crave living water.
Hungry, our souls ache to be satisfied.
Weary, our minds are tired by thoughts
that do not come from God.
Thirsty, hungry, and weary,
let us worship the God of love.
+ Hymn 415 - Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy
+ Call to Confession
+ A Prayer of Confession - Sally Fraser, Church of Scotland
Loving God, even as we wander far from You, You plant in our hearts the reminder that we can return. Help us to bring You all our faults and failings, and open our eyes to the ways we have failed to work with You, and turned our back on Your desires and designs for our happiness and flourishing. For the times we have walked or run away, for the times we have refused to come home, and for the times we have resented others’ homecomings, we are sorry, and we humbly ask for Your forgiveness now. Hear now our silent prayers of confession.
• Assurance of Pardon
• Response to Forgiveness: Hymn 581 Gloria Patri
Passing of the Peace
Children’s Message
Prayer for Openness
Our Lord and our God, as we listen for your Word, fill us with your spirit. Soften our hearts that we may discern your ways. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
Scripture Reading - 2 Corinthians 5:16-21, NT pg 181
From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we no longer know him in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God. For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
This is the written testimony to the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God
ANTHEM - Teach Me Your Way, O Lord, Lloyd Larson, Chancel Choir, Susan Carey, piano
Scripture Reading - Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32, NT pg 78
… “Now his elder son was in the field, and as he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. He called one of the slaves and asked what was going on. He replied, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf because he has got him back safe and sound.’ Then he became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and began to plead with him. But he answered his father, ‘Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command, yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’ Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’ ”
Sermon - Lent Week 4: “This Brother of Yours”- Rev. Matt Falco
Statement of Faith - Statement Four of the Declaration of Barmen
4. “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant.” (Matt. 20:25, 26.)
The various offices in the church do not establish a dominion of some over the others; on the contrary, they are for the exercise of the ministry entrusted to and enjoined upon the whole congregation. We reject the false doctrine, as though the church, apart from this ministry, could and were permitted to give to itself, or allow to be given to it, special leaders vested with ruling powers.
(Learn More about the Barmen Declaration by Checking Out the MSPC App)
+ HYMN 774 - There is Now a New Creation
Prayers of the People & THE LORD’s PRAYER (Debts/Debtors - Hymnal pg. 35)
Offering
• INVITATION
• Offertory - Aria (The Sorrow of Jesus) by Flor Peeters, Loren Tice
• Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessing flow Praise Christ the Word in flesh born low;
Praise Holy Spirit evermore; One God, Triune, whom we adore. Amen.
• Prayer of Dedication
+ HYMN 821 - My Life Flows On
Charge and Benediction
Benediction Response - Hymn 203, Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love
Refrain: Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love; show us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
3 These are the ones we should serve; these are the ones we should love;
all these are neighbors to us and you. (Refrain)
Postlude - Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, arr. Michael Bedford
Come all you people,
come and praise your Maker;
come all you people,
come and praise your Maker;
come all you people,
come and praise your Maker;
come now and worship the Lord.
Greeting & Announcements
Prelude - Cherished Moments by Jon Schmidt, Loren Tice
Call to Worship
Thirsty, our hearts crave living water.
Hungry, our souls ache to be satisfied.
Weary, our minds are tired by thoughts
that do not come from God.
Thirsty, hungry, and weary,
let us worship the God of love.
+ Hymn 415 - Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy
+ Call to Confession
+ A Prayer of Confession - Sally Fraser, Church of Scotland
Loving God, even as we wander far from You, You plant in our hearts the reminder that we can return. Help us to bring You all our faults and failings, and open our eyes to the ways we have failed to work with You, and turned our back on Your desires and designs for our happiness and flourishing. For the times we have walked or run away, for the times we have refused to come home, and for the times we have resented others’ homecomings, we are sorry, and we humbly ask for Your forgiveness now. Hear now our silent prayers of confession.
• Assurance of Pardon
• Response to Forgiveness: Hymn 581 Gloria Patri
Passing of the Peace
Children’s Message
Prayer for Openness
Our Lord and our God, as we listen for your Word, fill us with your spirit. Soften our hearts that we may discern your ways. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
Scripture Reading - 2 Corinthians 5:16-21, NT pg 181
From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we no longer know him in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God. For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
This is the written testimony to the Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God
ANTHEM - Teach Me Your Way, O Lord, Lloyd Larson, Chancel Choir, Susan Carey, piano
Scripture Reading - Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32, NT pg 78
… “Now his elder son was in the field, and as he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. He called one of the slaves and asked what was going on. He replied, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf because he has got him back safe and sound.’ Then he became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and began to plead with him. But he answered his father, ‘Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command, yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’ Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been found.’ ”
Sermon - Lent Week 4: “This Brother of Yours”- Rev. Matt Falco
Statement of Faith - Statement Four of the Declaration of Barmen
4. “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant.” (Matt. 20:25, 26.)
The various offices in the church do not establish a dominion of some over the others; on the contrary, they are for the exercise of the ministry entrusted to and enjoined upon the whole congregation. We reject the false doctrine, as though the church, apart from this ministry, could and were permitted to give to itself, or allow to be given to it, special leaders vested with ruling powers.
(Learn More about the Barmen Declaration by Checking Out the MSPC App)
+ HYMN 774 - There is Now a New Creation
Prayers of the People & THE LORD’s PRAYER (Debts/Debtors - Hymnal pg. 35)
Offering
• INVITATION
• Offertory - Aria (The Sorrow of Jesus) by Flor Peeters, Loren Tice
• Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessing flow Praise Christ the Word in flesh born low;
Praise Holy Spirit evermore; One God, Triune, whom we adore. Amen.
• Prayer of Dedication
+ HYMN 821 - My Life Flows On
Charge and Benediction
Benediction Response - Hymn 203, Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love
Refrain: Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love; show us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.
3 These are the ones we should serve; these are the ones we should love;
all these are neighbors to us and you. (Refrain)
Postlude - Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, arr. Michael Bedford