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ORDER OF WORSHIP
March 28, 2024 7:00pm
GATHERING
PRELUDE
WORDS OF WELCOME
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: Tonight is about God’s love displayed in Jesus Christ. And in the words of Jesus...
People: “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.”
Leader: By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
People: Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
PRAYER OF INVOCATION
*HYMN Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (Heidelberg Catechism)
Leader: What is your only comfort, in life and death?
People: That I belong - body and soul, in life and in death - not to myself but to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ, who at the cost of His own blood has fully paid for all my sins and has completely freed me from the dominion of the devil; that he protects me so well that without the will of my Father in heaven not a hair on my head can fall from my head: indeed, that everything must fit His purpose for my salvation. Therefore, by His Holy Spirit, He also assures me of eternal life, makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for Him.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Eternal God, we come recognizing that we share the self-centerdness, inattention and fearfullness of the disciples. We are more concerned about our own place in life than we are about the well-being of others. We say and do things that hurt others. We exaggerate or belittle our own gifts from You. We feel cut off by others, by our own actions or theirs, by misunderstanding or by deliberate intent. We are reluctant to admit mistakes, ask forgiveness, or try new and better ways of caring for others. Grant us insight into understanding ourselves, others and You. Teach us to love as You have loved us. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
Leader: Even in the darkness of this night, even in the emptiness of these hours that stretch out before Easter morning, the promise of the resurrection is still at hand.
All: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
*HYMN
INSTRUMENTAL
LITURGICAL PRESENTATION
MY TIME HAS NOT YET COME
The Wedding at Cana
Thine Hour
Lee Batson, harpHealing at the Pool
ANTHEM
Healer of Our Every Ill
Refrain: Healer of our every ill, light of each tomorrow, give us peace beyond our fear, and hope beyond our sorrow.
You who know our fears and sadness, grace us with Your peace and gladness; Spirit of all comfort, fill our hearts. Refrain
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
THE LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
LITURGICAL PRESENTATION
In the pain and joy beholding how Your grace is still unfolding, give us all Your vision, God of love. Refrain
Jesus at the Mount of Olives
Marty HaugenTHE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER
All who profess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and have been baptized are welcome to partake of the Lord’s Supper. Children who have been baptized and instructed in its meaning are also welcome to partake. Please hold the bread, so that all may commune together, but drink the cup when served.
ANTHEM
I Am Light, I Am Life, I Am Love
At this table, come and dine, feast on bread, partake the wine.
Do this in remembrance of Me.
This my body and my blood, for the weary soul outpoured.
Do this in remembrance of Me.
I was given for you. Come and taste of the Father’s love.
As you drink from the cup, remember the blood shed for you.
I am Light. I am Life. I am Love.
At this table, come and dine, feast on bread, partake the wine.
Do this in remembrance of Me.
I was given for you. Come and taste of the Father’s love.
As you drink from the cup, remember the blood shed for you.
I am Light. I am Life. I am Love. Please join in singing.
ANTHEM
Thy Will Be Done/My Hour Has Come
Our cup was filled with darkness. Our cup was filled with death.
Christ took our cup and drank it, and gave us life, and gave us hope, gave us Himself.
My father, let this cup pass from me.
My father, let this cup pass from me;
Yet not my will, O Lord, yet not my will, O Lord, but Thine be done.
In blackest night we hear Him in dark Gethsemane.
Pleading with the Father for one more way, for one more hope, for one more day.
My father, let this cup pass from me.
My father, let this cup pass from me;
Yet not my will, O Lord, yet not my will, O Lord, but Thine be done.
Then they took our Savior, and led Him to a tree;
And there thy broke His body, poured out His life, put Him to death to rise again!
My father, let this cup pass from me.
My father, let this cup pass from me;
Yet not my will, O Lord, yet not my will, O Lord, but Thine be done.
My hour has come; My hour has come.
Depart in Silence.
Craig Courtney
Please join us tomorrow evening at 7:00pm as the service continues.
Why matzo for communion tonight?
Matzo for communion is deeply connected to Passover which is what Jesus was celebrating with His disciples at the Last Supper. In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, during the Last Supper, Jesus breaks some bread - likely unleavened as matzo is - and tells His disciples to take and eat because it is His body.
You are invited to join us for our Easter Services
Sunday, March 31, 2024
We commemorate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
6:30am Sunrise Service on the Patio
8:00, 9:30 and 11:00am in the Sanctuary With the Sonoran Brass and orchestra
