third Sunday in lent

Mifflin Avenue United Methodist Church

March 8, 2015

 

*Those that are able are invited to stand

 

Gathering

 

Welcome and Announcements

 

-Gathering into worship-

 

*Call to Worship

One: The Lord is merciful and gracious,

                slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

All:  He does not deal with us according to our sins,

                nor requite us according to our iniquities.

One: What shall I render to the Lord for all his bounty to me?

All:  I will lift up the cup of salvation

                                 and call on the name of the Lord.

 

*Opening Hymn         “He Leadeth Me: O Blessed Thought”                                #128            

 

*Opening Prayer

O Lord our God, teach us temperance and self-control,

    that we may live in the Spirit

    and be mindful of all that Jesus endured and sacrificed for our sakes,

    and how he was made perfect through sufferings.

Help us so to keep the fast that you have chosen,

    that we may loose the bonds of wickedness,

    undo the heavy burdens, and let the oppressed go free;

through the grace of Christ Jesus our crucified and risen Savior. Amen.

 

*Chorus                              “I’ve Got Peace Like a River”                                    #2145

                                                                   in The Faith We Sing

                                                                          

*Greeting One Another in Christian Love

 -Offering our prayers-

(You are invited to share your prayer concerns by writing them on the

Prayer Request cards in the pews and placing them in the offering plate.)

 

Prayer Hymn                  “O For a Heart to Praise My God”                                   #417                                          

 

Silent Prayer / Pastoral Prayer / Lord’s Prayer

            Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.  Amen. 

 

-BECOMING THE CHURCH THROUGH THE WORD-

 

Children’s Sermon

         (After the Children’s Sermon, Children K through 3rd grade are invited to Junior Church)

 

Anthem                                “Man of Sorrows”                                                         Choir                             

 

Scripture                                                                                           John 2:13-22      

 

Sermon                           “A Market Place or a Meeting Place?”            Rev. David Morse

 

-Sharing our blessings-

 

Offering Our Gifts and Tithes

To give electronically from your mobile device visit donate.mifflinave.org or scan this code

 

 

*Doxology                  “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”                                #95

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below;

Praise God above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.  Amen.

 

*Offering Prayer

 

-Taking the Word to the World- 

*Closing Hymn             “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”                                        #384                                          

 

*Benediction

 

*Hymn                                   “I Love to Tell the Story” (refrain only)                            #156

             I love to tell the story, ‘twill be my theme in glory,

          to tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.

 

Postlude

 

 

Mifflin Avenue United Methodist Church

 “Where Faith and Life Meet”

www.mifflinave.org

412-731-2511

 

Pastor: Rev. Kelly Smith

214-202-9291

[email protected]