The Order of Worship – March 8, 2026

This is the 67th Day of 2026.
There are 289 more days remaining in 2025.

Filled with the Holy Spirit,
we are a people of prayer
committed to love one another
and equipped to share Christ’s love throughout the world.

Prelude:

Welcome & Announcements:
This month’s mission focus is the Arms of Mercy
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Call to Worship: Oh How He Loves You and Me

Responsive Reading: Psalm 95
The rock of our salvation

¹ O come, let us sing to the LORD; 
let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
² Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; 
let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
³ For the LORD is a great God, 
and a great King above all gods.
⁴ In his hand are the depths of the earth; 
the heights of the mountains are his also.
⁵ The sea is his, for he made it, 
and the dry land, which his hands have formed.
⁶ O come, let us worship and bow down, 
let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
⁷ For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, 
and the sheep of his hand. 
O that today you would listen to his voice!
⁸ Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, 
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
when your ancestors tested me, 
and put me to the proof, 
though they had seen my work.
¹⁰ For forty years I loathed that generation and said, 
“They are a people whose hearts go astray, 
and they do not regard my ways.”
¹¹ Therefore in my anger I swore, 
“They shall not enter my rest.”
Praise the Lord!

Opening Hymn: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah…No. 127 (G)
Verse 1

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;
(want no more)
feed me till I want no more.

Verse 2

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;
(strength and shield)
be thou still my strength and shield.

Verse 3

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;
(give to thee)
I will ever give to thee.!

Affirmation of Faith:
The Apostle’s Creed..No. 881

I believe in God the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth;
and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord:
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified,
dead,
and buried;
the third day he rose from the dead;
he ascended into heaven,
and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from thence he shall come to judge
the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.

Gloria Patri…Page 70

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.

Praise Song: I Speak Jesus (C)

I just wanna speak the name of Jesus Over every heart and every mind
’Cause I know there is peace within Your presence I speak Jesus
I just wanna speak the name of Jesus
’Til every dark addiction starts to break
Declaring there is hope and there is freedom I speak Jesus

’Cause Your name is Power Your name is Healing Your name is Life
Break every stronghold Shine through the shadows Burn like a fire
I just wanna speak the name of Jesus Over fear and all anxiety
To every soul held captive by depression I speak Jesus

Your name is Power Your name is Healing Your name is Life
Break every stronghold Shine through the shadows Burn like a fire
Shout Jesus from the mountains Jesus in the streets
Jesus in the darkness over every enemy Jesus for my family
I speak the holy name Jesus

Shout Jesus from the mountains Jesus in the streets
Jesus in the darkness over every enemy Jesus for my family
I speak the holy name Jesus
Shout Jesus from the mountains Jesus in the streets
Jesus in the darkness over every enemy
Jesus for my family I speak the holy name Jesus

Your name is Power Your name is Healing Your name is Life
Break every stronghold Shine through the shadows Burn like a fire
Your name is Power  Your name is Healing Your name is Life
Break every stronghold Shine through the shadows Burn like a fire
I just wanna speak the name of Jesus Over every heart and every mind
‘Cause I know there is peace within Your presence I speak Jesus
I just wanna speak the name of Jesus Over every heart and every mind
‘Cause I know there is peace within Your presence I speak Jesus 

Pastoral Prayer
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The Lord’s Prayer:

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 trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
forever. Amen.

Anthem: Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy…340 (Ab)

Offertory

Doxology:

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly hosts;
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen

Children’s Moment
Children’s Song (Lord of the Dance…No. 261 (G)
Verse 1

I danced in the morning when the world was begun,
and I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun,
and I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth.
At Bethlehem I had my birth.

Chorus

Dance, then, wherever you may be;
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he.
And I’ll lead you all wherever you may be,
and I’ll lead you all in the dance, said he.

Verse 2

Come, ye thirsty, come, and welcome,
God’s free bounty glorify;
true belief and true repentance,
every grace that brings you nigh.

Refrain

I will arise and go to Jesus;
he will embrace me with his arms;
in the arms of my dear Savior,
O there are ten thousand charms.

Prayer for Illumination
Lord, open our hearts and minds by the power of your Holy Spirit, that as the Scriptures are read and your Word is proclaimed, we may hear with joy what you say to us today. Amen.

Old Testament Reading: Exodus 17:1-7
Water from the rock

¹ From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

² The people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?” ³ But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?”

⁴ So Moses cried out to the LORD, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”
⁵ The LORD said to Moses, “Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

⁶ I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink.” Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.

⁷ He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Leader: The Word of God for the people of God
All: Thanks be to God

Gospel Reading: John 4:5-42
The woman at the well

⁵ So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶ Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.

⁷ A 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.)

⁹ The 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.)

¹⁰ Jesus 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.”

¹¹ The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? ¹² Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?”

¹³ Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but 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.”

¹⁵ The 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.”

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.”

¹⁷ The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!”

¹⁹ The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. ²⁰ Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

²¹ Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²² You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. ²³ But 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. ²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

²⁵ The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.”

²⁶ Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who is speaking to you.” ²⁷ Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?”

²⁸ Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, ²⁹ “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?”
Leader: The Word of God for the people of God
All: Thanks be to God 

Sermon Text: Romans 5:1-11
Reconciled to God by Christ’s death

¹ Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. ³ And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴ and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵ and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

⁶ For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷ Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person–though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die.

⁸ But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. ⁹ Much more surely then, now that we have been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God.

¹⁰ For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life. ¹¹ But more than that, we even boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Leader: This is the Word of God for the people of God
All: Thanks be to God

Sermon:  “God Loves Sinners”

Closing Hymn: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross…#298 (E)
Verse 1

When I survey the wondrous cross
on which the Prince of Glory died,
my richest gain I count but loss,
and pour contempt on all my pride.

Verse 4

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
that were an offering far too small;
love so amazing, so divine,
demands my soul, my life, my all.”

Filled Up and Poured Out

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