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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