Sunday, February 28th – 10 a.m. – 2nd
Sunday in Lent
VISITORS
Welcome to First Presbyterian
Church! Let us get to know you better! Please fill out the
friendship pad in the pew, and join us for refreshments in the Fellowship Room following
the worship service. The Fellowship Room is
downstairs – use either the elevator or the central passageway from the main entry.
TODAY’S
SERVERS
| Guest Preacher |
Rev. Phil Price |
| Greeters |
Linda & Melissa Howar |
| Litugists |
Zakk Sharp & Ben Neilsen |
| Head Usher |
Ruth Mes |
| Ushers |
Peter Mes, Bob Blackston,
Lawrence Flournoy, John Justus |
| Elevator Attendant |
Abraham Mes |
| Acolytes |
Layla & Rosanna Blackston |
Deacon Ambassador
for the
Month of February |
Marsha Neibling |
O Lord, Jesus
Christ,
The Way, the
Truth, and the life:
Do not let us
stray from you, the Way,
Nor to
distrust you, the Truth,
Nor to rest
in anything other than you, the Life.
Amen.
First
Presbyterian Church
of
Twin Falls, Idaho
GATHERING AND WELCOMING EACH
OTHER AS THE BODY OF CHRIST
Music Medley
Welcome, Notices of Community
Life, & Signing the Friendship Pad
PRAISING GOD AND
PREPARING OUR HEARTS
TO RECEIVE THE WORD
Opening Our Souls to Worship
“If With All Your Hearts” Felix Mendelssohn
Call to Worship
Liturgist: How
are we to know we are loved by God, as deeply as Sarah and Abraham were?
People: At the center of the covenant is God's promise, as well
as God's honor.
Liturgist: How
are we to know that when we cry out to God, that we will be heard?
People: At the center of our relationship with God is love and
trust.
Liturgist: How
are we to trust that what people like Paul and Jesus tell us is true?
People: At the center of Scripture we find God, full of grace
and wonder.
Liturgist: Let
us worship God!
*Praising God
“The God of Abraham Praise”
#488
*Prayer of Confession
Refuge of our hearts, we must admit that all too often you
are not the center of our lives. We find shelter in all the false securities the
world offers, rather than grounding ourselves in your promises. Our emotions drive our
fears, and so we end up making foolish choices, rather than being guided by your word and
heart. We turn to the politicians, the celebrities, the commentators to give us guidelines
for living, rather than following the One who comes in your name. We ask one
thing of you, our God, that you not hide
your face from us, but turn to us with forgiveness and hope.
Time for Silent Prayer & Reflection
*Assurance of Pardon
Liturgist:
The good news is that at the
very moment we discover that the temptations of the world provide no true home for us, we
find God sheltering us with love, with grace, with joy.
Friends, believe and live the good news.
People:
In Jesus Christ, we
are forgiven!
*Praising God for Our
Forgiveness and Wholeness:
“Glory Be to the Father”
#579
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is
now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
* Passing the Peace: Please turn to your neighbors and greet them with
the assurance that God loves you and has forgiven you to love and serve others.
*Children’s Time
HEARING THE GOOD NEWS
Praying to hear God’s
Word to Us (pray together)
Liturgist:
Let us pray.
People: God
of mercy, you promised never to break your covenant with us.
Amid all the changing words of our generation, speak your eternal Word that
does not change. Then may we respond to your
gracious promises with faithful and obedient lives; through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
First Reading
Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18
pages 11-12
Choral Anthem
Second Reading
Luke 13:31-35
page 72
Proclaiming the Good
News “The
Politics of Jesus”
RESPONDING TO GOD’S WORD
Singing Our
Response “Fight the Good Fight” #307
Joys and Concerns
Supporting the Mission
of Christ
The Invitation
The Offertory “If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee”
Emma Lou Diemer
*Praising God &
Dedicating Our Gifts to Christ’s Use:
“The Doxology” #592
Praise God from whom all
blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below,
Praise Him above, ye heavenly
host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
DEPARTING TO LIVE
AS FOLLOWERS OF THE RISEN
CHRIST
*Closing Hymn
“Walk On, O People of God” #296
Receiving the
Blessing
Postlude “Jesus
Christ My Sure Defense” Paul Manz
Lenten Thoughts…
Jesus
is going to Jerusalem to fulfill his destiny. He
knows it. From the beginning he has before his
eyes all our sins which he will redeem. Now,
little by little, day by day, their weight lies on him more heavily, for the moment
approaches when he must pay. The cross. And he alone; all the others are busy with silly
dreams. We too; there’s our business and
the stock exchange which is not going well and which is worrying us. Or else it is working out all right and our worries
are no less. There are clients and there is
the price of butter. All that is so much more
important than the cross of Jesus. –Jacques
LeClerq, “A Year with the Liturgy”
You
have to be critical and see the world and persons with your own judgment, and Christians
must learn to sharpen their distinctive Christian judgment.
The
rich must be critical amid their own surroundings of affluence: why they are wealthy and
why next door there are so many poor. A
wealthy Christian will find there the beginning of conversion, in a personal questioning:
Why am I rich and all around me so many that hunger? -Oscar
Romero, “The Violence of Love”
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