Caldwell United Methodist Church
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March
14, 2010
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(Please
sign the attendance sheet in the pew pad. Please tear the sheets out and place
them in the offering plate after everyone in your pew has signed in)
PRELUDE: “Pues Si Vivimos (When We Are Living) #356 UMH
“Surely The Presence of the Lord” #328 Faith We Sing
(use
“God’s mighty power” and “God’s grace”)
WORDS
OF GREETING: God is good – All the time
All
the time- God is good
SHARING OUR JOYS AND CONCERNS: Including
birthdays and
Following each joy, please
respond: anniversaries
For These gifts, We
thank you, God.
Following
each concern, please respond:
God, in your mercy, Hear our
prayer
CHILDREN’S
MOMENTS
*MORNING
GREETINGS: Greet those around you with handshakes
or hugs and words of greeting or joy.
*OPENING SONG: “Your Love, O God” #120 in Your Hymnal
v. 1, v. 2, v. 3, v. 4, refrain
*CALL
TO WORSHIP:
One:
We give praise to our God who knew us before we had
breath.
All: We delight in the Lord who guides us still.
One : God, help us to live as you would have us
live.
All: Give us obedient hearts.
One:
As we gather to worship, we know injustice rains down
on your
people.
All: Disturb us, God, so that we may act justly.
One:
As we celebrate this day, we know so many who suffer
needlessly.
All: Use us, God, as your hands of mercy.
One:
As we move through our day, following our own agendas.
All: Remind us, God, to walk humbly with you.
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:
“Lord, Listen to Your Children
Praying” #2193 in the Faith We
Sing
SILENT PRAYER -
PASTORAL PRAYER
SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS: (Loose change goes
to the
Christian Disciple Farm
*OFFERING RESPONSE;
“Praise God From all Blessings Flow” #95 in
Hymnal
*PRAYER
OF THANKSGIVING
God, we know things
are not right in the world. Children
sleep with hunger pangs, families struggle to stay together
in times of war and strife, droughts leave once lush
fields cracked and dry. We know these things to be true, but they
seem so far and remote. They seem beyond
our reach.
They seem too big for
us to solve. So we do not seek justice
for the widow or the
orphan. We do not respond mercifully.
As we gather together
to worship you this day, we realize that
we cannot walk humbly without you. We cannot act justly or seek mercy without
your grace. Help us, Lord, to move
with
mercy . In Jesus’ name, Amen.
A
2 Corinthians 5:16-21 - Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
MESSAGE: “An Indulgent God in an Impoverished World”
A SERVICE OF HOLY
COMMUNION
Musical Setting B Page #18 in Your Hymnal Lord’s Prayer
Breaking the Bread, Giving the Bread and Cup
Choir
song during Communion: “Kyrie” Marilyn Houser Hamm
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: “Song of Hope (Canto de Esperanza)
#2186 in The Faith We Sing, sing 2 times
*WORDS OF PARTING
*PARTING
SONG “We Are Called” #2172 in the Faith We Sing
v.1
& v.2, refrain
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Pastor Grace
Baldridge’s Cell Phone
(262) 751-0955
Ministers
All of us
Pastor
Pastor Grace Baldridge
Choir Director
Deanna Shimko-Herman
Greeters & Ushers Steib family
Reader
John
Steib
Dates
to Remember
Coffee
bar before and after service
Mar
17 Bible Study, “Reading Revelations
with Hope”
Our Lord’s UMC,
Lenten Service, 1st
Congregational, East Troy 7:00 PM
Mar
18 Choir Rehearsal
6:00 – 7:15 PM
Mar 20 Annual retreat,
Metro South UMW
Lutherdale Conference Center 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Church with a
Workshop at Our Savior’s
Sponsored by
Volunteers for next Sunday
Greeters Van
Buren family
Reader Kim
Van Buren
Psalm 32
Happy
are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Happy are those to
whom the Lord imputes no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no
deceit.
While
I kept silence, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long, For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength
was dried up as by the heat of summer.
Then
I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not hide my iniquity;
I
said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you
forgave the guilt of my sin.
Therefore
let all who are faithful offer prayer to you; at a
time of
distress, the rush of mighty waters shall not reach
them. You are
a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you
surround me with glad cries of deliverance.
I
will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will
counsel you with my eye upon you. Do not be like a horse or a
mule, without understanding, whose temper must be
curbed with
bit and bridle, else it will stay near you.
Many
are the torments of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds
those who trust in the Lord. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice,
O
righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:16 - 21
From now on, therefore, we
regard no one from a human point of
view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we
know him no longer in that way. So if
anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; everything old has passed away; see, everything has
become new! All this is from God, who
reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of
reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself,
not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of
reconciliation to us. So we are
ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat
you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we
might become the righteousness of God.
Luke 15:1-3, 11b -32
Now all the tax collectors and
sinners were coming near to listen to him.
And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This
fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable;
“There was a man who had two
sons. The younger of them said to his
father, ‘Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to
me.’ So he divided his property between
them. A few days later the younger son
gathered all he has and traveled to a distant country. And there he squandered
his property in dissolute living. When
he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout
that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of
the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs. He would gladly have filled himself with the
pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything.
But when he came to himself he
said, “How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but
here I am dying of hunger! I will get up
and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against
heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me
like one of your hired hands.” So he set
off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him
and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed
him. Then the son said to him, ‘Father,
I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called
your son.’ But the father said to his
slaves, ‘Quickly, bring out a robe—the best one—and
put it on him put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. And get the fatted calf and kill it, and let
us eat and celebrate; for this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was
lost and is found!’ And they began to
celebrate.
“Now his elder son was in the
field; and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and
dancing. He called one of the slaves and
asked what was going on. He replied, “Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted
calf, because he has got him back safe and sound.’ Then he became angry and refused to go
in. His father came out and began to
plead with him. But he answered his father, ‘Listen! For all these years I have
been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command, yet
you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my
friends. But when this son of yours came
back, who has
devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for
him!’ Then the father said to him, ‘Son,
you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because
this brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has been
found.’”
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Daily Prayer
Please
use this guided prayer as a way to pray daily for the whole world.
Together,
let us pray
For the people of this congregation…
For
those who suffer and those in trouble…
For the concerns of this local community…
For the
world, it’s peoples, and it’s leaders…
For the
Church universal – it’s leaders, it’s members, and
it’s mission
In communion
with the saints…Amen