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SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT
ORDER OF WORSHIP 
Rev. Kendra Lovelace Balliet
Organist: Jim Ross 

Prelude - Elegy For Forty Days- Vicente Piano

Welcome

*Call to Worship
Leader: Lenten travelers, who is this Jesus that we follow?
People: He is the Messiah.
Leader: What kind of Messiah is Jesus?
People: He is the Messiah who teaches that he will lose his life and who calls us to lose our lives in order to save our lives.
Leader: How does it feel to follow a Messiah whose teachings and call are so hard and uncomfortable?
People: Some feel fear and anger, while others feel uncertain and anxious, and still others feel resolute and ready to follow.
Leader: Lenten travelers, we are not alone in our feelings about following Jesus as our Messiah. It is a hard road. The blessing is that we do not travel it alone.
People: Thanks be to God that we share this journey with Jesus and one another as we lose our lives for the sake of the gospel to save our lives through Jesus, our Messiah. Amen.

*Opening Hymn "Lord of the Dance" #261

*Prayer of Confession
Leader: Come let us turn to our God,
who is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Let us pray.
People: Holy Friend, our God and Savior,
we have talked much about faith yet have been slow to take its risks,
we have lauded forgiveness yet have been miserly in giving it,
we have praised truth yet have fudged our own integrity,
we have extolled love yet have placed conditions on our loving,
we have urged hope for others yet have ourselves lived like cynics,
we have honored Christ’s Cross yet have avoided our own.
Leader: Most faithful God, please deal with each according to our individual betrayals of the Gospel we espouse. By your Spirit enter the secret caverns of the soul and there expose, judge, counsel, cleanse and reform us. Forgive us repeatedly, we pray, until forgiveness is such a part of us that it may become a way of life as we deal with those around us. In the name of Christ our Redeemer.
All: Amen!

Psalter 118:14-29 #839-840
Gloria Patri

Children's Chat

Music Ministry and Offertory - Meditation on Olive Brow - Anthony Giamanco
Doxology and Prayer of Gratitude

Scripture Mark 12:1-12 
Sermon Series “Journey of Stones”
Sermon: “Rejected Stones” 

Joys/Concerns 
Hymn “Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation” #559
Pastoral Prayer/Lord's Prayer

Closing Hymn "The Church’s One Foundation" #545

Action Steps & Benediction

Postlude - These Holy Mysteries-Roger C. Wilson

The flowers on the altar today are given by Suzanne DeArment                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

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