WELCOME AND CONCERNS OF THE CONGREGATION

PRELUDE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

SERVICE FOR LENTEN CANDLES

LITANY – from Psalm 25:4, 5, 8

One: Let us call on God to show us how to live. 

All:  Show us the truth, O God, and teach us every day. 

One: Our God is good. Our God is sure. 

All:  For he shows us the right way. 

SCRIPTURE AND PRAYER

*HYMN 166 “Lord, Who throughout These Forty Days”

PRAYER OF CONFESSION                                         

Gracious God, our sins are too heavy to carry, too real to hide, and too deep to undo. Forgive what our lips tremble to name, what our hearts can no longer bear, and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment. Set us free from a past that we cannot change; open to us a future in which we can be changed; and grant us grace to grow more and more in your likeness and image, through Jesus Christ, the light of the world…

Silent Prayers of confession

WORDS OF ASSURANCE 

Christ carries our sins on the wings of God’s love and grace.  Once, for all, Christ has suffered, that our sins may be put to death and our lives may be given new birth.  What God has put to death, let us now put to death.

In the name of Christ, we are forgiven! 

Thanks be to God!

*GLORIA PATRI         “Glory Be to the Father”          #581

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION 

SCRIPTURE LESSONS: Genesis 9:8-17; Galatians 5:16-26

SERMON                  “Way of the Cross”        Rev. Barrett Ingram 

*HYMN 724              “O Jesus, I Have Promised”

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH        The Apostles’ Creed      pg. 35

PASTORAL PRAYER AND THE LORD’S PRAYER 

OFFERTORY ANTHEM               “Immortal Love, Forever Full”                                                                                Philip Dietterich        

RECEIVING OF GOD’S TITHES AND OFFERINGS

*DOXOLOGY                                                         Hymn 606       

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION

*HYMN 610               O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing   

*BENEDICTION  

*POSTLUDE

                        *Those who are able are invited to stand.