WELCOME AND CONCERNS OF THE CONGREGATION

PRELUDE             “Panis Angelicus”                         arr. David Paxton                                                                                               

SERVICE FOR LENTEN CANDLES

LITANY – from Psalm 51:7, 10

One: It is time for our sins to be washed away 

All: that we may be as clean as the fresh-driven snow. 

One: May God make our hearts pure 

All: and our hearts right within us. 

SCRIPTURE AND PRAYER

*HYMN 624        I Greet Thee, Who My Sure Redeemer Art 

PRAYER OF CONFESSION                                    William Temple

O God, our judge and savior, set before us a vision of thy purity, and let us see our sins in the light of thy holiness.  Pierce our self-contentment with the shafts of thy burning love, and let love consume all that hinders us from service to thy cause; for thy holiness is our judgment, so are thy wounds our salvation…

Silent Prayers of Confession

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS 

Hear the good news: Those who are in Christ are a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.  All this is from God to whom we have been reconciled through Christ.  (2 Corinthians 5:17-18) And so I declare to you, in Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. 

Thanks be to God!

*RESPONSE OF PRAISE “What Wondrous Love” Hymn 215

What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul,

What wondrous love is this, O my soul!

What wondrous love is this, that caused the Lord of bliss,

to bear the heavy cross for my soul, for my soul,

to bear the heavy cross for my soul! 

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION 

SCRIPTURE LESSONS: Jeremiah 31:31-34; Luke 13:31-35

SERMON    “Letting God Love You”           Rev. Barrett Ingram 

Text: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem… How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!”  (Luke 13:34)

*HYMN 182          I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say 

*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH         The Apostles’ Creed       pg. 35

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic* Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.  

PASTORAL PRAYER AND THE LORD’S PRAYER 

OFFERTORY ANTHEM   

                     “O God, My Faithful God”         Kevin Hildebrand   

RECEIVING OF GOD’S TITHES AND OFFERINGS

*DOXOLOGY   “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow"      Hymn 606         

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION

*HYMN 450          Be Thou My Vision  

*BENEDICTION  

*POSTLUDE     “Prelude and Fugue in A Minor”   J. S. Bach