FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WAUWATOSA

 

February 25, 2007

MORNING WORSHIP 8:45 AM

Worship for the First Sunday in Lent

 

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS                                        Rev. Samuel R. Schaal

                      (Please pass the red pew pads now. If you are a guest this Sunday,

we would love to greet you following the service or at coffee hour in the Social Hall.)

 

PRELUDE                                          La Cinquantaine                                                   Marie

                                                         Carol Wittig, Cello

                                                                                                                                               

CHIMES AND TOWER BELLS

                                                                       

CALL TO WORSHIP                                                                                                                                    

Liturgist:    Search me, O God, and know my heart;

People:     try me and know my thoughts!

Liturgist:    See if there is any wicked way in me,

People:     and lead me in the way everlasting.

 

*HYMN 14                                  The God of Abraham Praise

 

*THE PRAYER OF THE DAY AND THE LORD’S PRAYER (unison)                            

O Lord God, you led your people through the wilderness and brought them to the promised land. So guide us, that, following our Savior, we may walk through the wilderness of this world toward the glory of the world to come; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever and taught us to pray…

 

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 daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.  Amen

 

*HYMN 517                                       Teach Me, O Lord

 

THE OLD TESTAMENT LESSON  Deuteronomy 26:1-11                          Bible, page 180

 

*HYMN [back page]                   On Eagle’s Wings (Psalm 91)

{Children ages 3 through 8th grade are dismissed to Sunday School

during the singing of the hymn.}                      

 

THE NEW TESTAMENT LESSON     Romans 10:8b-13                          Bible, page 1032

                                                                                                     Rev. Steven A. Peay, Ph.D.

 

THE GOSPEL LESSON                      Luke 4:1-13                                      Bible, page 936

 

THE ANTHEM                      When I Think Upon Thy Goodness                                      Haydn

                                                    Kimberly Porter, Soprano

 

THE SERMON                              “Strategic Memories”                                          Dr. Peay

 

HYMN 317                                      I Love to Tell the Story

 

THE CALL TO PRAYER AND SILENT MEDITATION

 

THE PRAYER OF MINISTER AND PEOPLE

 

THE CHORAL RESPONSE TO PRAYER

 

THE OFFERTORY

 

THE ANTHEM                           God, Grant Me to Be Silent                                               Hill

                                                                                                                                               

*HYMN 537                                    All Things Are Thine

 

*THE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND DEDICATION

 

*HYMN 383                                 Forward Through the Ages

 

*THE CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

 

THE POSTLUDE                                      Korale                                                         Peeters                                                           

 

*You are invited to stand, if able.

 

The Chancel flowers are given in thanksgiving to this church family for all the blessings

it has brought to our lives from
 Jane Kolberg and Don, Jill & Max Schaeffer.

 

 

Worship Preview for Sunday, March 4, 2007

Next Sunday Dr. Peay’s sermon for the second Sunday in Lent is entitled

“When Imitation IS the Real Thing.”

Thomas Gregory is the organist.

Lee Jacobi directs the Pilgrim Choir at 8:45 and the Chancel Choir at 11:00.

 

 

                                                 The Pilgrim Choir Anthem

God, Grant Me to Be Silent
Sir Paul Reeves

God, grant me to be silent before you, that I may hear you;
God grant me to be at rest in you, that you may work in me;
God grant me to be open to you, that you may enter;
God grant to me to be empty before you, that you may fill me. 

Let me be still, and know you are my God. Amen.