Starling Avenue Baptist Church
Fifth Sunday of Lent
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March 17, 2024 ╬ 11:00 a.m
TheWorshipofGod
Fifth Sunday of Lent
March 17, 2024 ╬ 11:00 a.m.
*We invite you to stand as you are able.
Gathering at God’s Invitation
Welcome AngelaZimmerman
CalltoWorship AngelaZimmerman
Lenten travelers, how long have you traveled this road with your gaze pointed down at the dust and gravel and asphalt as you walk or limp or roll down the path?
Sometimes it is easier to look at the road than at the people who share the journey with us.
Lift up your heads! Look, listen, reach out a hand. Who are your neighbors on this road?
We lift our heads and look to our Savior who journeys with us and helps us notice our neighbors all around us.
This is the Lenten journey to learn to love God and love our neighbors just as Jesus showed us.
Our journey teaches us to lose our lives to God as we find and follow Christ in our service to others.
Come, let us worship God who caravans with us on this road to the cross.
Come, let us worship! Amen.
LightingoftheChristCandle
KellyRoberts
We light the Christ candle as a reminder that Christ is the one who has drawn us to this place, abides with us now, and is with us to the end of the age.
Prelude Lead,KindlyLight
DaleWood
LifeoftheCommunity LindaPulliam
Offering Ourselves to God
*Hymn#186 When I Survey the Wondrous Cross HAMBURG
ScriptureReading Jeremiah31:31-34
The Word of God for the People of God
Thanks Be to God.
AngelaZimmerman
God of all history and eternity, whom we call upon even now, you are eternal, unchangeable, infinite, and almighty. You are completely wise, just, and good and the overflowing source of all goodness. We thank you for your covenant, which is never broken, and your love, which is never measurable.
Have mercy on us, O God, according to your steadfast love. According to your abundant mercy blot out our transgressions. Wash us thoroughly from our iniquities and cleanse us from our sin.
For we know our transgressions and our sins are ever before us. Against you, and you alone, have we sinned and done what is evil in your sight. Create in us a clean heart, O God. Put a new and right spirit within us. Cast us not away from your presence, and do not take away your Holy Spirit, restore to us the joy of your salvation and sustain in us a willing spirit. Amen
ScriptureReading Psalm51:1-12
The Word of God for the People of God
Thanks Be to God.
AngelaZimmerman
*Hymn#583 Jesus Paid It All ALLTOCHRIST
GivingourTithesandOfferings
OffertoryPrayer JeffStegall
Offertory What Wondrous Love is This? MarkHayes
*Doxology(Hymn#705)
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, amen.
Listening to God
*ScriptureReading John12:20-33 LindaPulliam
For the Word of God in Scripture, for the Word of God among us, for the Word of God within us.
Thanks be to God.
Prayerof
Pulliam
Confession Linda
TheChurchatPrayer&TheLord’sPrayer AngelaZimmerman
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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
Anthem
Sermon
DisciplineofSilence
Alas and Did My Savior Bleed DanForrest
“TheNewCovenant” AngelaZimmerman
To be in God’s presence is to be changed. During this moment of silent reflection, consider the change God wishes to make in you.
Responding to God’s Word
*Hymn#635 I Want Jesus to Walk with Me SOJOURNER
If you sense God calling you today, we invite you to respond during this time of invitation. If God is calling you to follow Jesus for the first time, to rededicate yourself as a Christ-follower, or as a faithful Christian, to join the fellowship of our church, we encourage you to come forward to speak to our pastor during this closing hymn.
Sending Into God’s World
Benediction
Postlude
In Christ Alone MarkHayes
(Please put your nametag in the basket provided at either entrance when leaving.)