1. Homecrest Presbyterian Church Worship of the Lord’s Day March 19th, 2017 3rd Sunday in Lent

2. Gathering Around the WORD Call to Worship (Psalm 95:1-7)
O come, let us sing to the LORD;
let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
Let us come into his presence
with thanksgiving;
let us make a joyful noise to him
with songs of praise!
For the LORD is a great God,
and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are the depths of the earth;
the heights of the mountains are his also.

3. Gathering Around the WORD Call to Worship (Psalm 95:1-7)
The sea is his, for he made it,
and the dry land, which his hands have formed.
O come, let us worship and bow down,
let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

4. Gathering Hymn # 386 “Come, Worship God”
who is worthy of honor; enter God’s presence
with thanks and a song! You are the rock
of your people’s salvation to whom our jubilant praises belong.

5. Gathering Hymn # 386 “Come, Worship God”
Ruled by your might
are the heights of the mountains; held in your hands
are the depths of the earth. Yours is the sea, yours the land,
for you made them, God above all gods,
who gave us our birth.

6. Gathering Hymn # 386 “Come, Worship God”
We are your people,
the sheep of your pasture; you are our Maker,
and to you we pray. Gladly we kneel
in obedience before you; great is the one
whom we worship this day!

7. Gathering Hymn # 386 “Come, Worship God”
Now let us listen,
for you speak among us; open our hearts
to receive what you say. Peace be to all
who remember your goodness, trust in your word,
and rejoice in your way!

8. Gathering Around the WORD Call to Confession God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the gift of the Holy Spirit. Trusting in God’s overflowing grace, let us confess our sins before God and our neighbors.

9. Gathering Around the WORD Prayer of Confession (in unison) Healing God of majesty and glory, we are thirty for your grace. You made a way for us in the wilderness, and still, in our foolishness, we go astray. We hide our eyes from your presence. We do not listen to your word. We are lifeless when we ought to dance and speechless when we ought to sing. Forgive us, O Lord. Speak peace to our fearful hearts, strengthen our weak hands, and make firm our feeble knees as we seek to follow in your holy way, Amen.

10. Gathering Around the WORD Declaration of Forgiveness (Based on Romans 5:8-10) This is the good news of God’s grace. Though we were sinners, Christ died for us. Though we were enemies of God, God loved us. Once we were lost and dead – now Christ has become our life and salvation. In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Thanks be to God, Amen

11. Gathering Around the WORD Gloria Patri
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.

12. Gathering Around the WORD Passing of the Peace of Christ
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. Sisters and Brothers, let us pass the peace of Christ and the love of God with one another. (I John 4:7-8)

13. Proclaiming the WORD Message to the Youth/ Prayer of Illumination

14. Proclaiming the WORD Scripture Reading – John 4:5-26, 39-42
5So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)

15. Proclaiming the WORD Scripture Reading – John 4:5-26, 39-42
10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” 13Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”

16. Proclaiming the WORD Scripture Reading – John 4:5-26, 39-42
15The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.” 17The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’ 18for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!” 19The woman said to him,
“Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

17. Proclaiming the WORD Scripture Reading – John 4:5-26, 39-42
21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. 24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” 26Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking to you.”

18. Proclaiming the WORD Scripture Reading – John 4:5-26, 39-42
39Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. 41And many more believed because of his word. 42They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”

19. Proclaiming the WORD (John 4:5-26, 39-42)
Thirsting No More

20. Proclaiming the WORD (John 4:5-26, 39-42)
Thirsting No More

21. Proclaiming the WORD (John 4:5-26, 39-42)
Thirsting No More

22. Proclaiming the WORD (John 4:5-26, 39-42)
Thirsting No More

23. Proclaiming the WORD (John 4:5-26, 39-42)
Thirsting No More

24. Proclaiming the WORD (John 4:5-26, 39-42)
Thirsting No More

25. Responding Hymn # 666 “O Splendor of God’s Glory Bright”
O splendor of God’s glory bright, from light eternal bringing light; O Light of Light, light’s living spring, true Day, all days illumining:

26. Responding Hymn # 666 “O Splendor of God’s Glory Bright”
Come, Holy Sun of heavenly love, rain down your radiance from above, and to our inward hearts convey the Holy Spirit’s cloudless ray.

27. Responding Hymn # 666 “O Splendor of God’s Glory Bright”
O joyful be the passing day with thoughts as clear as morning’s ray, with faith like noontide shining bright, our souls unshadowed by the night.

28. Responding Hymn # 666 “O Splendor of God’s Glory Bright”
O Lord, with each returning morn, your image to our heart is born; O may we ever clearly view our Savior and our God in you.

29. of every race and people, to live as one community.
Responding to the WORD
Affirmation of Faith –
Presbyterian Church (USA)’s
A Brief Statement of Faith Section 3
We trust in God, whom Jesus called Abba, Father. In sovereign love God created the world good and makes everyone equally in God’s image male and female,
of every race and people, to live as one community.

30. But we rebel against God;
Responding to the WORD
Affirmation of Faith –
Presbyterian Church (USA)’s
A Brief Statement of Faith Section 3
But we rebel against God;
we hide from our Creator. Ignoring God’s commandments, we violate the image of God in others and ourselves, accept lies as truth, exploit neighbor and nature, and threaten death to the planet entrusted to our care.

31. Responding to the WORD Affirmation of Faith –
Presbyterian Church (USA)’s
A Brief Statement of Faith Section 3
We deserve God’s condemnation. Yet God acts with justice and mercy to redeem creation. In everlasting love, the God of Abraham and Sarah chose a covenant people to bless all families of the earth.

32. Responding to the WORD Affirmation of Faith –
Presbyterian Church (USA)’s
A Brief Statement of Faith Section 3
Hearing their cry, God delivered the children of Israel from the house of bondage. Loving us still, God makes us heirs with Christ of the covenant. Like a mother who will not forsake her nursing child, like a father who runs to welcome the prodigal home, God is faithful still.

33. Bearing and Following the WORD into the World Announcements &
Sharing of Joys and Concerns
The afternoon Bible Study Group will continue downstairs in the basement today, at 12:30pm. We are currently studying a new series on “365 Days with John Calvin” edited by Joel R. Beeke in commemoration of the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation this year.
The Women's Group meets on every Wednesdays at 7:30pm over at the Manse (2048 E 14th Street). They are currently studying Gospel of Mark. For more information, please see Margaret and Cara.

34. Bearing and Following the WORD into the World Announcements &
Sharing of Joys and Concerns
Lenten Breakfast will be scheduled for three consecutive Sundays, March 26th, April 2nd, and April 9th.

35. Bearing and Following the WORD into the World Announcements &
Sharing of Joys and Concerns
 We will be visiting and distributing Palm Crosses at the nursing home on Palm Sunday, 4/9 after service. We will be making these crosses on Saturday, 4/8.
Good Friday Worship Service, 4/14 7pm. We will be joint by Sheepshead Bay Resurrection once again this year.

36. Bearing and Following the WORD into the World Prayer of the People & The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven.
Halloweth be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts; as we forgive our debtors.
Lead us not into temptations, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory forever. Amen.

37. Bearing and Following the WORD into the World Offering of our Gifts and our Lives

38. Bearing and Following the WORD into the World Doxology and Offertory Prayer

39. Sending Hymn # 65 “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”
Guide me, O thou great Jehovah, pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak, but thou art mighty. Hold me with thy powerful hand. Bread of heaven, bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more; feed me till I want no more.

40. Sending Hymn # 65 “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”
Open now the crystal fountain, whence the healing stream doth flow. Let the fire and cloudy pillar lead me all my journey through. Strong deliverer, strong deliverer, be thou still my strength and shield; be thou still my strength and shield.

41. Sending Hymn # 65 “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”
When I tread the verge of Jordan, bid my anxious fears subside. Death of death, and hell's destruction, land me safe on Canaan's side. Songs of praises, songs of praises I will ever give to thee; I will ever give to thee.

42. Bearing and Following the WORD into the World The Charge and Benediction

43. Bearing and Following the WORD into the World Benediction Response
# 547 “Go, My Children, with My Blessing”
(Stanza 2)
Go, my children, sins forgiven,
at peace and pure. Here you learned how much I love you,
what I can cure. Here you heard my dear Son’s story; here you touched him, saw his glory. Go, my children, sins forgiven, at peace and pure .

44. Homecrest Presbyterian Church Worship of the Lord’s Day March 19th, 2017 3rd Sunday in Lent