February 18, 2024

WE GATHER IN AWE AND PRAISE

PRELUDE                                     “In a Special Place”                                                       Linda Kerby   INTROIT                                        “Alabare”   Traditional Spanish

WELCOME                                                                                             Rev. Emily Corzine

  One: This is the day that the Lord has made

  All: Let us rejoice and be glad in it

*CALL TO WORSHIP   based on Psalm 107

    One:  God’s faithful love endures for ever and ever.

         Because of God’s everlasting goodness,

All:  we offer God our thanks and praise. 

One:  God’s faithful love endures for ever and ever.

            Because of God’s care and concern for humanity,

All:     we offer God our thanks and praise.

One:  God’s faithful love endures for ever and ever.

            Because of God’s transforming powers and actions,

All:    we gather as a community of faith to worship

           and we offer God our thanks and praise… 

*HYMN 215                            “What Wondrous Love Is This?”                                 WONDROUS  LOVE

*PRAYER OF CONFESSION  by Ann Sidall                              

One:  On this first Sunday of Lent,

             we pause and look within, examining our consciousness.

All:     Have mercy on us, O God, according to your steadfast love.

One:   Where we have neglected prayer, been apathetic in worship,

             found reasons to avoid generosity, or lacked compassion:

All:     Have mercy on us, O God, according to your steadfast love.

One:  Where we have colluded in oppression,
            Or willfully ignored those who are invisible or suffering

All:    Have mercy on us, O God, according to your steadfast love.

One:  Where anxiety has eroded the gift of Your peace,

            and where we have cared too much about what others think:

All:    Have mercy on us, O God, according to your steadfast love.

*ASSURANCE OF PARDON

*CONGREGATIONAL RESPONSE 551              “Lord, Have Mercy”                              LAND OF REST 

*PASSING OF THE PEACE                                       

    One:   The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all,

All:      And also with you.

WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD                           

ANTHEM                                       “Books of the Bible”                                                   Nate Anderson  

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION                        

SCRIPTURE  Psalm 25:1-10

To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul.

O my God, in you I trust; do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.

Do not let those who wait for you be put to shame; let them be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.

Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.

Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long.

Be mindful of your mercy, O LORD, and of your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for your goodness'

sake, O LORD!

Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.

He leads the humble in what is right and teaches the humble his way.

All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.

Holy Wisdom, Holy Word

Thanks be to God

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE                                                                                           Mary Rebekah Fortman

SERMON                                                                                              Rev. Emily Corzine

WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD

*HYMN849             “Everyone Who Longs for the Boundless Love of God”         EVERYONE WHO LONGS

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE  followed by The Lord’s Prayer                       

TIME OF OFFERING   online giving is available at   indianolapres.org/give

OFFERTORY                                         “As I Have Loved You”             Luacine Clark Fox, arr. Jan Welch

*OFFERTORY RESPONSE 710          “We Lift Our Voices”                                                    OFFERING  

*PRAYER OF DEDICATION 

  We thank you, Holy God, for the blessings you lavish upon our world in love. Bless all the gifts we share in response to your

steadfast love, and continue to bless us, that we may live from this day forth with generous and expansive hearts.  Amen.  

 *HYMN 833                         “O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go”   ST. MARGARET 

TIME OF COMMUNITY SHARING                                                                        

CHARGE AND BENEDICTION                                                                       

CHORAL RESPONSE                      “Go Now in Peace”
POSTLUDE                         “How Great the Wisdom and the Love”              Thomas McIntryre

                                                                                                                                                        arr. Sherrie Manwill Boren

 

 

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