Morning Service

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2021
The First Sunday in Lent

*congregation standing as able

PRELUDE
Nathan Skinner, organ

INTROIT
Help me, O Lord
Words: New Lebanon, NY, ca. 1838
Music: Arr. Kevin Siegfried (b. 1969)

Help me, O Lord, thy way to keep, in truth and in sincerity.
For what I sow, that I must reap, through time and in eternity.

* CALL TO WORSHIP from Psalm 63
Margaret Sloat, Elder Candidate

Leader: O God, you are my God; early will I seek you.
My soul thirsts for you, my flesh also longs after you, in a barren and dry land where there is no water.
People: Thus I have looked upon you in your holy place, that I might behold your power and your glory.
Leader: For your loving-kindness is better than life itself; my lips shall praise you.
People: As long as I live I will magnify you, and lift up my hands in your name.

* HYMN Lord, Who throughout These Forty Days

* INVOCATION, CONFESSION, & LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father who art in heaven; Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our coming day’s bread;
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors;
And lead us not into trial, but deliver us from the Evil One.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

* PEACE

LIFE OF THE CHURCH
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ANTHEM
Psalm 23
Music: René Clausen (b. 1953)

The Lord is my shepherd
I’ll not want.
He makes me to lie in green pastures;
he heals me beside still waters,
he restores my soul.
He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear not.
For you are with me,
your rod and your staff they comfort me.

You spread a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
and anointed my head with oil,
my cup runneth over,

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all of my days,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever,
Amen.

OLD TESTAMENT READING
Dan Verrengia
Ezekiel 34:11–24

Leader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God

* HYMN Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us

NEW TESTAMENT READING
Kimberley Morrison, Minister of City Engagement
John 10:1–21

Leader: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God

GLORIA PATRI (Hymn No. 734)
Glory be to the Father,
and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen, amen.

SERMON
“The Good Shepherd”
Mark Booker, Senior Minister

* HYMN No. 600 He Leadeth Me

CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
Kimberley Morrison
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OFFERTORY
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Andante Larghetto, from Sonata in G minor, by G. F. Handel (1685-1759)
Sarah M. Skinner, violin

* HYMN No. 155 O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High

* BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE
Nathan Skinner, organ