Travis Park UMC-Sunday Morning Worship
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
First Sunday in Lent
9:00 a.m.
PRELUDE: Ken Freudigman & Emily Watkins
CALL TO WORSHIP*
Leader: Let us worship God, who reconciled us to Godself through Christ.
People: We are new creations; the old has gone, the new has come!
Leader: Let us worship God as Christ’s ambassadors.
People: Through us and through our worship may we announce the good news to
all.
Leader: Let us worship God in spirit and in truth.
All: Praise God! We are reconciled, redeemed, renewed!
--based on John 4:24, 2 Corinthians 5:17-21
OPENING HYMN* No. 2234 Lead On, O Cloud of Presence ALL
PRAYER of CONFESSION
Leader: O Lord, you desire truth in our inward being;
People: teach us wisdom in our secret heart.
Leader: Send out your light, send out your truth,
People: and let them lead us to our home.
Leader: Take from us the weight of our sin,
People: that room might be made for the spirit of truth.
Leader: If we prepare a dwelling place, that spirit will abide within us,
People: and the truth will set our spirits free.
Leader: Then shall we love not only in word or in speech; then we shall love in deed and truth.
People: and by this know that our service is faithful.
Leader: O Lord, you desire truth in our inward being;
People: teach us wisdom in our secret heart. Amen.
--Ruth C. Duck
SILENT PRAYERS
WORDS OF ASSURANCE
MESSAGE Luke 4:1-13 Rev. Karen Vannoy
TITHES AND OFFERINGS: We Meet You, O Christ
Words: Fred Kaan
Music: Carl F. Schalk
Sanctuary Choir; Lana Cartlidge Potts, accompanist
Please turn to number 257 in The United Methodist Hymnal for text.
(Please register your attendance in the red registration books.)
*DOXOLOGY
(This morning’s doxology is found in the back of The Faith We Sing found in your pew rack.)
SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION
Leader: The Spirit of God be with you.
People: And also with you.
Leader: Lift up your hearts to heaven
People: where Christ in glory reigns.
Leader: It is right, and a good and joyous prayer, always and everywhere to give you thanks. For
in the beginning, Creator God, You made the earth; round, rich, and fertile, the mother of all life, the seedbed of all growth.
People: You bent low and gently gathered up a handful of clay and shaped and
wonderfully and intricately made man and woman.
Leader: You breathed wind and spirit into flesh and bone.
People: We became like you, formed in your image carrying the stars in our eyes,
the moon in our hearts and the cosmos in every breath.
Leader: And, so with all the saints who have gone before, all the creatures of the earth, and all the
faithful touched by the Spirit, we praise your name and join the unending hymn of praise:
--from Water Words by Larry Peacock
SANCTUS #2257-b in The Faith We Sing ALL
WORDS OF INSTITUTION AND CONSECRATION
Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them become for us the presence of Christ, so that we may be signs of new life for our searching world. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with all creation and one in service to all the world until Christ comes in radiant glory and seats all at the heavenly table.
All: Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain-bearer, Life-giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, living God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the people of the world!
Your heavenly will be done by all created beings!
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom sustain our hope and come on earth.
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In times of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love, now and forever.
Amen.
--from A New Zealand Prayer Book
DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELEMENTS
COMMUNION MUSIC: Lana Cartlidge Potts
HYMN OF INVITATION* No. 2105 Jesus, Tempted in the Desert ALL
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE: Ken Freudigman & Emily Watkins
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