WE PRAISE OUR LORD

Hymn of Praise        “Come, Rejoice Before Your Maker”    HS 44

Scripture Reading    Matthew 21:1-9    Kenton Cowick

As the youth bring in the palm leaves, congregation to sing  “Alleluia”

A Call to Worship

    Leader:    Hosanna!  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of our God!

    People: Today we wave palm branches on high, read the story once again, and sing with Christians everywhere: Hosanna!

   Leader:    Today we welcome Christ as ruler, a ruler who brings peace not war, a ruler who desires to relate with each one individually.

    People: Hosanna to the servant-king!  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of our God!  Hosanna in the highest!

*Hymn of Praise        “All Glory, Laud, and Honor”    HS 23

*Invocation    Steve Thomas

*Prayer Response

WE CONFESS OUR SINS

Lenten Confession

( A silent time to reflex and pray for forgiveness for times you might have betrayed/disappointed Christ.}

Matthew 26:14-16  “Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you?  They paid him thirty pieces of silver.  And from that moment he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.”

Hymn of Forgiveness  “God Forgave My Sin in Jesus’ Name”    HS 382

WE ARE MINISTERED BY MUSIC AND THE WORD

Today’s Message    Charles Hudlin

Ministry of Music     “Song of the Palms”    Choir

WE RESPOND BY GIVING FREELY

Disciples’ Generous Response    Steve Thomas   Offertory Prayer   Offertory Music



Pastoral Prayer

*Closing Hymn    “Song of Shalom”    SP 40

*Sending Forth    Betty Cowick

     This Lenten time is about reconciliation, forgiveness and joy.  We praise God for our creation and for sending Christ as a child to be human with us in our history, to suffer death upon the cross and be raised to newness of life.

       —“I Then Shall Live” by the Gaithers
*Postlude    Jean Rasmussen