March 1, 2026

WE GATHER IN AWE AND PRAISE 

PRELUDE                                                                      “When Twilight Comes”                                          DAPIT HAPON

WELCOME                                                                    Rev. Trip Porch  

One: This is the day that the Lord has made

All: Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

*CALL TO WORSHIP

We don’t come with all the answers,

but with honest hearts and open hands.

We come with our worries about people we love,

with our fears about things we cannot fix.

We come with the weight of a world that feels uncertain,

with grief for what we hoped would be different.

We come because we cannot do this alone,

and because we were never meant to.

So let us worship the God who meets us here to be with us in all of it.

Come, let us worship together.

*HYMN INSERT                                                                “Since the Lord is My Salvation”                                              NETTLETON

Words by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette                    

*PRAYER OF CONFESSION                                                                                                    Bob Concitis

Gracious God, we confess that we are afraid of what we cannot control.

We exhaust ourselves trying to manage outcomes that belong to you.

We have treated our own effort as the thing that holds the world together,

and when things fall apart, we have blamed ourselves… or others… or even you.

Forgive us, God. Teach us again how to lament, how to grieve honestly, and to trust more deeply.

Silence is kept.

*ASSURANCE OF PARDON

*RESPONSE OF PRAISE 851    “Come, Bring Your Burdens to God”    Woza Nomthwalo Wakho

*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

MUSICAL OFFERING              “Expectans Expectavi”  from Oratorio de Noel    Camille Saint-Saens

                                                                                      Kya Angle                  

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE                                                                   Robin Murray

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION

SCRIPTURE Luke 13: 22; 31-35  The Message
He went on teaching from town to village, village to town, but keeping on a steady course toward Jerusalem.

Just then some Pharisees came up and said, “Run for your life! Herod’s got your number. He’s out to kill you!”

Jesus said, “Tell that fox that I’ve no time for him right now. Today and tomorrow I’m busy clearing out the demons and healing the sick; the third day I’m wrapping things up. Besides, it’s not proper for a prophet to come to a bad end outside Jerusalem. 

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killer of prophets,

    abuser of the messengers of God!

How often I’ve longed to gather your children,

    gather your children like a hen,

Her brood safe under her wings—

    but you refused and turned away!

And now it’s too late: You won’t see me again

    until the day you say,

        ‘Blessed is he

        who comes in

        the name of God.’”

SERMON                                                                                                Rev. Trip Porch

WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD

*HYMN 195                       “When Twilight Comes”                                                DAPIT HAPON      

                                              Soloist will sing verse 1; all are then invited to sing all verses

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

OFFERTORY                     Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen, D. 343                                     Franz Schubert

COMMUNION

INVITATION TO THE TABLE

GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

SHARING OF BREAD AND CUP      525            “Let Us Break Bread Together”                         LET US BREAK BREAD

    PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

You’ve fed us, even though we did not earn it. You’ve held us, even though we could not manage it ourselves. Send us now into the world not as those who have it figured out, but as those who have been loved, and who can love in return. Amen.

*HYMN 343                            “Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life”                                          GERMANY                                                           

TIME OF COMMUNITY SHARING

CHARGE & BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE                   “Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life”              arr. Lloyd Larson         

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