PRELUDE/ENTRANCE
GREETING/ANNOUNCEMENTS
COUNCIL REPORT
*OPENING SONG
“O Worship the King” UMH 73
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Liturgist: On this first Sunday in Lent, we join Jesus in the wilderness, a place of wild and dangerous things, of testing and temptation away from the security of home.
People: God, rescue us in the wilderness!
Liturgist: Once again, we watch and listen as Satan throws out temptation upon temptation, and we find our security in Jesus, who does not waver from the truth.
People: God, rescue us within the wilderness!
Liturgist: Once again, we face our own frailty and realize that the wilderness is not nearly as dangerous as our choices to prioritize selfish gain and hoarding of power.
People: God, rescue us through the wilderness!
Liturgist: Once again, we call upon God in the wildernesses of our lives, and we trust God’s faithful reply:
ALL: Those who love me, I will deliver; I will protect those who know my name. When they call to me, I will answer them; I will be with them in trouble; I will rescue them and honor them. Thanks be to God! Amen.
Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, August 2024.
OPENING PRAYER
God, you are our refuge. You are the shore in sight, you are hands that reach out, you are the ground on which to rest.
God, you are our strength. You are the life we long for, you are the refusal to give up, you are the keys of home we carry with us. God, you are our help in time of trouble. We call on you from the ruins and the rubble; we call on you from the wildness and the deep. We call on you to meet us in this place! Amen.
Found in Cláudio Carvalhaes, Liturgies from Below: Praying with People at the Ends of the World (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020), 40.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
SHARING GOD’S PEACE
JOYS AND CONCERNS
THE LORD’S PRAYER
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
A TIME FOR CHILDREN
SPECIAL MUSIC
FIRST SCRIPTURE Luke 4:1-13
SECOND SCRIPTURE Numbers 21:4-9
MESSAGE “Don’t be a Grump”
RESPONSE TO THE WORD
*SONG OF RESPONSE
“I Will Call upon the Lord” TFWS 2002
*OFFERING OF OURSELVES
*”A Modern Affirmation” UMH 885
*DOXOLOGY UMH 95
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
SENDING FORTH
*SONG OF DISMISSAL
“It Is Well with My Soul” UMH 377
*BENEDICTION
*PEACE
"God Be with You till We Meet Again” UMH 672
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