02/28/2021 Bulletin for Virtual Worship

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Greetings & Announcements   


Chimes

Opening Prayer

All: Father, we thank You that we can worship You because we have been justified by faith and we now have peace with You Father through our Lord Jesus Christ and we have been given access to grace by faith in Him.


Prelude

Call to Worship
One:   Let us worship God, who reconciled us through Christ.

All:    We are new creations; the old is gone, the new has come!

One:   Let us worship God as Christ’s ambassadors.

All:    Through us and through our worship may we announce the good news to all.

One:   Let us worship God in spirit and in truth.

All:    Praise God! We are reconciled, redeemed, renewed!
One:   Yes, come!  Let us worship God! 


Hymn #839             Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine                


Call to Confession


Prayer of Confession 

All: God of compassion and mercy, look with favor upon us as we confess our sins. Our faith is weak in the face of crisis.  Our hope collapses when we are threatened or maligned. We seek our own safety and abandon those you love. We trust in objects we can create and control. We speak much and risk little. But you, O God, have given your promise that you will never forsake us. Forgive our failure to take you at your word.  Forgive us, we ask, in the strong name of Jesus. Amen.


Declaration of Forgiveness



Prayer for Illumination

All: Draw us close, Holy Spirit, as the Scriptures are read and the Word is proclaimed. Let the word of faith be on our lips and in our hearts, and let all other words slip away. May there be one voice we hear today - the voice of truth and grace. Amen. 


Old Testament Reading:                      Psalm 22:23-31

New Testament Reading:          Mark 8:31-38         


Message:   “Bearing Crosses & Come-to-Jesus Talks”   Greg Gibson   



Hymn #223              When I Survey the Wondrous Cross          


Prayers of the People and The Lord's Prayer

Offertory


Prayer of Dedication

All: Help us who have received so freely from you to give as freely in our turn, and so have the pleasure of giving as well as the happiness of receiving. Amen.

Hymn #216                       Beneath the Cross of Jesus                   


Benediction

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