MORNING WORSHIP: 8:45 AND 11:00 A

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WAUWATOSA

March 11, 2007

MORNING WORSHIP 8:45 A.M.

Worship for the Third 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 Beach Spring Held

CHIMES AND TOWER BELLS

CALL TO WORSHIP Peter Holtz

Liturgist: Come brothers and sisters, dare to seek God with me.

People: Come brothers and sisters, dare to call on God’s name.

Liturgist: Dare to walk in God’s holy ways.

People: Dare to proclaim God’s mercy.

ALL: Come brothers and sisters, together we dare to trust God’s love and become God’s promise to creation.

*HYMN 8 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

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

Holy God, we admit that sometimes we expect nothing of ourselves except a few familiar prayers or pious pronouncements. We admit that sometimes we are not dis-ciples, but merely churchgoers. And we admit that we expect little of you and block our hearts and minds from your powerful and living presence in our lives and in the world. Help us to turn from our darkness to your Light, from our poverty to your Abundance, from our narrowness to your Generosity, from the cross of mortal life to the Crown of life everlasting through Jesus Christ our Lord, who 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 Way of Thy Statutes

THE OLD TESTAMENT LESSON Isaiah 55:1-9 Bible, page 671

THE PSALMODY (unison) Psalm 63:1-8 Bible, page 516

*HYMN 101 There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy

{Children ages 3 through 8th grade are dismissed to Sunday School during the singing of the hymn.}

THE GOSPEL LESSON Luke 13:1-9 Bible, page 950

THE SERMON “The Pause That Refreshes” Rev. Schaal

ANTHEM For Where Love Is, There is God Wagner

THE CALL TO PRAYER and SILENT MEDITATION

THE PRAYER OF MINISTER AND PEOPLE

THE CHORAL RESPONSE TO PRAYER

THE OFFERTORY

THE ANTHEM Christ Is Our Cornerstone Jordan

*RESPONSE HYMN 535 We Give Thee But Thine Own

*THE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND DEDICATION

*HYMN (page three) Lift Every Voice and Sing

*THE CHARGE AND BENEDICTION

THE POSTLUDE Foundation Held

*You are invited to stand, if able.

The Chancel flowers are given by the Muth family in memory of the
Reverend Philip Muth.

Worship Preview for Sunday, March 18, 2007

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

“UNOBS CLR VUE.”

Thomas Gregory is the organist. Lee Jacobi directs the Pilgrim Choir at 8:45 and the

Chancel Choir at 11:00. The Jubilation Ringers, directed by Kimberly Williams, play at 8:45.

Choral Evensong service at 4:00.

The Pilgrim Choir Anthems

For Where Love Is, There Is God

Ubi Caritas et amor, 9th century

Come as strangers to the altar, for where love is, there is God.

Come you poor, you weak, who falter, for where love is, there is God.

Song and scripture wed together, bound by faith in sacred Word,

Sharing peace and consolation, for where love is, there is God.

Let us each love one another, for where love is, there is God,

And embrace as sister, brother, for where love is, there is God.

Heal our hurting, lift our spirits, cease our cold, contentious ways.

Spread the grace of love unending, for where love is, there is God.

Alleluia, praise the Lord. Alleluia, for where love is, there is God.

Christ Is Our Cornerstone

John Chandler 1806-76 Based on "Angularis Fudamentum," 7th century