This is part of the worship series,
"The Way of the Cross”
Series Introduction | Lent 1 | Lent 2
Lent 3 | Lent 4 | Lent 5 | Palm Sunday |
Good Friday | Easter | Pentecost
Second Sunday of Lent
Gathering Song
“Come, Let Us Worship and Bow Down” Doherty
Call to Worship
Lent calls us to journey, this and every day,
following Jesus wherever he leads us.
Lent calls us to journey:
to the place where God covenants with us,
to receive the new names we are given.
Lent calls us to worship together,
to tell future generations the good news.
Lent calls us to practice justice,
to bring God’s hope to all people.
Lent calls us to faithful living,
to trust the One who gives us life.
Lent calls each of us to take up our cross,
to trust the One who bears it with us.
Lent calls us to journey with God.
Let us worship God, who walks with us,
this and every day.
—Thom M. Shuman © 2020. lectionaryliturgies.blogspot.com. Permission pending.
Opening Prayer
Eternal God, whose signature we see, if we dare to look, in the creation of the universe, help us this hour to look and to listen for your handwriting and your voice in this place, among these people.
Connect our temporary praise to your timeless rhythms, your ageless melodies, your everlasting joyful noise.
Guide us now to focus upon you, knowing that in you, our distractions become new possibilities for action.
Breathe life into our singing, our praying, our speaking, our listening, our touching, that all these activities might become more than they are. In our worship we reach out to you, O God, knowing that you have already enfolded us in your arms. In Jesus, we pray. Amen.
—Inspired by Psalm 19, myredeemerlives.com/prayers.
Songs
“Hosanna (Praise is Rising)” Brown
“Your Great Name” Nordhoff and Neale
Communion as Confession and Assurance
“Guide Me, O My Great Redeemer” Williams
“All Who Are Thirsty” Brown and Robertson
Message
Mark 11:12–26, “Clearing the Temple”
Song of Response
“This Is Amazing Grace” Riddle, Farro, and Wickham
Offering
“I Will Change Your Name” Butler
Prayer of the People
Closing Song
“King of Heaven” Ingram and Baloche
