Second Sunday in Lent
CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP SERVICE
GATHERING IN GOD’S PRESENCE
MUSIC FOR GATHERING AND CENTERING
Allow the music being offered to help you find your center, to acknowledge God’s presence, and to allow yourself time and space to open your mind and heart to the Spirit of God moving among us this day.
OPENING MUSIC
David Herberg, Director
The Worship Team
“Knowing You”
WORSHIP IN SONG
The Worship Team
“El Shaddai”
*PSALM
*WORSHIP IN SONG
“El Shaddai” (reprise)
OPENING PRAYER
Pastor Daniel F. Diss
WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Pastor Daniel
TIME FOR YOUNG CHRISTIANS
Before leaving for Kid’s Church & Sunday School, our students are invited to join Pastor Daniel at the front for a time of learning together. Parents are asked to escort children to their classroom and to pick-up their children following the service. Please sign your children in and out. Thank you.
LISTENING FOR THE WORD
SCRIPTURE READING
Bob Rhodes
Genesis 17:1-7 (CEB)
When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am El Shaddai. Walk with me and be trustworthy. I will make a covenant between us and I will give you many, many descendants.” Abram fell on his face, and God said to him, “But me, my covenant is with you; you will be the ancestor of many nations. And because I have made you the ancestor of many nations, your name will no longer be Abram but Abraham. I will make you very fertile. I will produce nations from you, and kings will come from you. I will set up my covenant with you and your descendants after you in every generation as an enduring covenant. I will be your God and your descendants’ God after you.
Reader: This is the Word of God for you people of God.
All: Thanks be to God.
WORSHIP IN SONG
The Worship Team
“Shout to the Lord”
SCRIPTURE READING
Bob Rhodes
Mark 8:31-38 (CEB)
Then Jesus began to teach his disciples: “The Human One must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and the legal experts, and be killed, and then, after three days, rise from the dead.” He said this plainly. But Peter took hold of Jesus and, scolding him, began to correct him. Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, then sternly corrected Peter: “Get behind me, Satan. You are not thinking God’s thoughts but human thoughts.”
After calling the crowd together with his disciples, Jesus said to them, “All who want to come after me must say no to themselves, take up their cross, and follow me. All who want to save their lives will lose them. But all who lose their lives because of me and because of the good news will save them. Why would people gain the whole world but lose their lives? What will people give in exchange for their lives? Whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this unfaithful and sinful generation, the Human One will be ashamed of that person when he comes in the Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
Reader: This is the Word of God for you the people of God.
ALL: Thanks be to God.
SERMON
Pastor Daniel
“Recognizing Promises”
*WORSHIP IN SONG
The Worship Team
“Give Thanks”
RESPONDING TO THE WORD
CELEBRATION OF GIFTS
God is generous to us. God’s goodness and desire for goodness for us is never in question; it is the witness of Scripture. As we pause to receive and to give this gift of music to the praise and glory of God, let our hearts grow full as we consider again how good God has been to us.
Please complete your “Connections” cards at this time. The ushers will be around to collect them shortly.
OFFERTORY MUSIC
The Worship Team
“There Is a Redeemer”
*WE ARE AN OFFERING
We lift our voices, we lift our hands; we lift our lives up to you: we are an offering. Lord, use our voices, Lord, use our hands, Lord, use our lives, they are yours: we are an offering. All that we have, all that we are, all that we hope to be, we give to you, we give to you. We lift our voices, we lift our hands, we lift our lives up to you: we are an offering. We are an offering.
*OFFERTORY PRAYER
Leader: Let us pray.
ALL: Receive these gifts we give to you and your work, O God. Bless their use to the building of your reign in this place and around the world in Jesus’ name. Amen.
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
The ushers will collect the “Connection” cards and get them to the pastor. The pastor will offer the joy or concern on the card as well as any shared with him during the previous week. After each petition, the pastor will conclude, “Lord, in your mercy…” The congregation is invited to respond, “Hear our prayer.” The entire time will conclude with a short pastoral prayer and the Lord’s Prayer which can be found at #895 in “The United Methodist Hymnal.”
SENDING FOR SERVICE
WORSHIP IN SONG
“Everyday”
BENEDICTION
Pastor Daniel
We United Methodists are guided by three simple principles:
Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.
POSTLUDE / INSTRUMENTAL CLOSING
*Please stand as you are able.