MORNING WORSHIP: 8:45 AND 11:00 A

FIRST CONGREGATONAL CHURCH OF WAUWATOSA

March 4, 2007

MORNING WORSHIP 8:45 AM

Worship for the Second Sunday in Lent

The Church Gathers

Our Worship Order this week is adapted from the ‘Wee Worship Book’ of the

Ecumenical Iona Community, Scotland

WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Rev. Steven A. Peay, Ph.D.

(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 Adagio Peeters

CHIMES AND TOWER BELLS

CALL TO WORSHIP Rev. Robert J. Brink

Minister: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

People: And also with you.

Liturgist: Give praise to God and rejoice in God’s love.

People: Like a hen with her brood beneath her wings, God has brought us together!

Liturgist: Rejoice in God’s presence and sing songs of praise to God’s name.

People: We seek God’s will and pray that we may walk safely in God’s path.

Liturgist: Let everyone thank the Lord for many benefits.

People: Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.

*HYMN 93 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah

*INVOCATION AND THE LORD’S PRAYER (unison)

O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, and who taught us to pray saying…

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

*RESPONSE HYMN 517 Teach Me, O Lord, the Way of Thy Statutes

The Church Hears the Word

OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 Bible, page 11

*PSALMODY Psalm 27 sung to Beach Spring

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

during the singing of the Psalmody.}

God, my light and my salvation,

In whose strength my hope is laid;

Confident in my salvation,

I shall never be afraid.

Evil hosts may rise against me,

Wars distress, and flesh decays;

Yet the cruelest death imagined

But begins my song of praise.

Shelter me within the haven

Of Thy house all time to come;

On the rock of Thy protection,

Let me safely find a home.

Lift me high above the legions

Who would rail against Thy word;

O’er the tumult of division

Make my cry for peace be heard.

When my trust is disappointed,

Faith confronted with disdain;

Friend and foe defeat my purpose,

Even then wilt Thou sustain.

Had I not with eyes believing

Seen the goodness of Thy face,

Never could I taste Thy pleasure,

Nor await Thy saving grace.

NEW TESTAMENT LESSON Philippians 3:17-4:1 Bible, page 1070

GOSPEL LESSON Mark 1:9-15 Bible, page 910

COMMUNION REFLECTION “When Imitation IS the Real Thing” Dr. Peay

ANTHEM Open My Eyes Scott

The Church Offers Prayer and the Great Thanksgiving

CALL TO PRAYER AND SILENT MEDITATION

PRAYER OF PEOPLE AND MINISTER

After the Minister says, “do it with me, you said” we say:

So, thank you, Lord, for intervening in our private lives.

After the Minister says, “you walk with me, you said” we say:

So, thank you, Lord, for promising us nothing.

After the Minister says, “until we change” we say:

So, thank you, Lord for the essential gifts.

After the Minister says, “offering us bread and wine” we say:

So, thank you, Lord, for coming again and keeping your word, and showing you care for us and for all people. Amen.

CHORAL RESPONSE TO PRAYER

OFFERTORY

ANTHEM Give Ear, O Ye Heavens Wood

*RESPONSE HYMN 535 We Give Thee But Thine Own

INVITATION TO TABLE AND CONFESSION

*THE PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison)

God of steadfast compassion, we confess that we don’t always struggle very hard with those daily temptations that surround us. We confess that we often give in to the temptation to judge others, to speak harshly, to allow our anger free rein, to take more than our share, to be lazy, to be thoughtless. Encourage us in the discipline of expecting better of ourselves in these things and the strength to stand firmly against large temptations we face. Bless us with the faith to turn to you in honest repentance when we fail. Amen.

THE ASSURANCE OF PARDON

THE STORY

THE GREAT THANKSGIVING

{after the minister concludes “…on earth and in heaven:” we all say:}

ALL: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory, hosanna in the highest. Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Minister: Lord God, as we come to share the richness of your table, we cannot forget the rawness of the earth. We cannot take bread and forget those who are hungry. Your world is one world and we are stewards of its nourishment.

ALL: Lord, put our prosperity at the service of the poor.

Minister: We cannot take wine and forget those who are thirsty. The ground and the rootless, the earth and its weary people cry out for justice.

ALL: Lord, put our fullness at the service of the empty.

Minister: We cannot hear your words of peace and forget the world at war or, if not at war, then preparing for it.

ALL: Show us quickly, Lord, how to turn weapons into welcome signs and the lust for power into a desire for peace.

Minister: We cannot celebrate the feast of your family and forget our divisions. We are one spirit, but not in fact. History and hurt still dismember us.

ALL: Lord, heal your church in every brokenness.

THE PRAYER OF CONSECRATION

THE COMMUNION

THE PRAYER FOLLOWING COMMUNION (unison)

Lord God, you put the life of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, into our hands; now we put our lives into yours. Take us, renew and remake us. What we have been is past; what we shall be, through you, still awaits us. Lead us on. Take us with you and let us follow you with new minds and new hearts. Amen.

*HYMN 375 Lead On, O King Eternal

*THE CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

POSTLUDE Koraale Peeters

*You are invited to stand, if able.

The Chancel flowers are given by George and Sharon Nortman in memory of their parents,

LeRoy & Carol Bach
and Walter & Gwendolyn Nortman.

Worship Preview for Sunday, March 11, 2007

Next Sunday Rev. Samuel Schaal will deliver the sermon entitled,

“The Pause That Refreshes.”

Thomas Gregory is the organist.

Roxanne Trump-Miles directs the Junior Choir at 8:45.

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

The Pilgrim Choir Anthems

Open My Eyes

Lancelot Andrewes, 1555-1626