Morning Service

SUNDAY MARCH 14, 2021
The Fourth 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 Siegried

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

* CALL TO WORSHIP from Psalm 69
Margaret Sloat, Elder

Leader: Save me, O God, for the waters have come up even to my neck.

People: I have come into deep waters, so that the floods run over me.

Leader: But, LORD, I make my prayer to you in an acceptable time. Hear me, O God, in the multitude of your mercy.

People: Draw near to me and save me; O deliver me because of my enemies.

Leader: I will praise the Name of God with a song, and magnify it with thanksgiving.

People: Let heaven and earth praise him, for God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah.

* HYMN When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

* 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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Welcome to New Members
Chris Briere
Eric Chen
Wes Ireland
Joshua Siewert
Li Wang
James Yee
Kara Yee
Michael Yee
Tianyi Zhang

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ANTHEM
Crucifixus from Mass in B minor
Words: Nicene Creed
Music: J. S. Bach (1685–1750)

Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato,
For our sake, he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
passus et sepultus est.
He suffered [death] and was buried.

OLD TESTAMENT READING
Linda Hemphill
Isaiah 52:7–13

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

* HYMN Lift High the Cross

NEW TESTAMENT READING
Tim Leary, Director of Grad Student Ministry
John 12:20–36

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
“I Am Lifted Up”
Mark Booker, Senior Minister

* HYMN No. 257 Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted

CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
Tim Leary
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OFFERTORY
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Sinfonia from the Cantata “Christ Lay in Death’s Bonds”, BWV 4
by J. S. Bach (1685–1750)
Park Street Church Strings

* HYMN O God Beyond all Praising

* BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE
Lachrimæ Antiquæ from “Seven Tears”
by John Dowland (1563–1626)
Park Street Church Strings