Saturday, January 12, 2013

March 17, 2013

This is the Fifth Sunday in Lent

Theme:Wondrous Love--Can Pain Really Be Part of Love?

"The Passion Story of Christ is a love story. It is the story of God sending his one and only son--the Holy Lamb of God--to redeem all of humanity in a sacrificial act of love so that we might be eternally united with the Creator of the universe. It is the story of Jesus who willingly came to give his life for [our} eternal souls."

 --Lloyd Larson, Narration to Wondrous Love: Suffering Servant, Crucified Christ, Risen Redeemer

Liturgist: 

Scripture: Isaiah 53:1-6
Who has believed what we have heard?
    And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
    and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by others;
    a man of suffering[a] and acquainted with infirmity;
and as one from whom others hide their faces[b]
    he was despised, and we held him of no account.
Surely he has borne our infirmities
    and carried our diseases;
yet we accounted him stricken,
    struck down by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
    crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the punishment that made us whole,
    and by his bruises we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have all turned to our own way,
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.
Preparing for Worship
Chimes
Welcome & Announcements
Prelude 

Words of Preparation
Hymn of Praise: 
Call to Worship:

Invocation
The Lord's Prayer
Gloria Patri
A Time for Offering
Call to Offering
Offering Meditation
The Doxology
Prayer of Dedication
We Join in Prayer
Prayer Concerns & Celebrations
Morning Prayer                                                                                        
We Contemplate & Live God's Word
Children's Sermon           
Choir Anthem: "Worthy is the Lamb" from Wondrous Love (Larson)
Scripture:
Sermon             
Invitation to Discipleship
Hymn of Invitation: 
Gathering at the Lord's Table
Call to Communion
Hymn of Communion: 
Prayers of Thanksgiving
Words of Institution
Breaking Bread & Pouring the Cup
Musical Meditation
Partaking of the Lord's Supper
We Depart to Serve
Benediction
Parting Hymn: 
Postlude

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