April 13 , 2025 - Palm Sunday
Pastor: Rev. Benjamin Travis
Organist: Patrick Bier, Minister of Music
Choir Director: Kris Barnes
Call To Worship
Welcome & Announcements
Confession & Forgiveness (pg 94)
Gathering Song - # 344 All Flory, Laud, and Honor
Apostolic Greeting & Kyrie (pg 147)
Prayer of the Day
Creator God, you prepare a new way in the wilderness, and your grace waters our desert. Open our
hearts to be transformed by the new thing you are doing, that our lives may proclaim the extravagance
of your love given to all through your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
First Lesson - Isaiah 43:16-21
Responsive Reading - Psalm 126 (5)
Second Lesson - Philippians 3:4b-14
Children's Sermon
Gospel Acclimation
Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:13-14)
Gospel Reading
Pastor: The holy gospel according to John.
Response: Glory to you, O Lord.
Scripture - John 12:1-8
Pastor: ...The gospel of the Lord.
Response: Praise to you, O Christ.
Sermon
Hymn of the Day - #351 O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Apostle's Creed (pg 105)
Prayers of Intercession (pg 152)
Sharing of the Peace
Offertory- Deep Were His Wounds, and Red Donald Rotermund
Offertory Response - #182
The Great Thanksgiving (pg 152)
Sanctus (pg 153)
Eucharistic Prayer (pg 153)
Lord's Prayer (pg 154)
Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) (pg 154)
Table Blessing
Post Communion Hymn-pg. 204
Post Communion Prayer (pg 155)
Blessing
Sending Song- #353 Were You There
Dismissal of the Congregation - Response: Thanks be to God.
Postlude-Postludium Gordon Young
Thank you for worshiping with us today.
Readings for this Week:
Su Sunday of the Passion
M Isaiah 42:1-9 Psalm 36:5-11 (7) Hebrews 9:11-15 John 12:1-11
Tu Isaiah 49:1-7 Psalm 71:1-14 (6) 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 John 12:20-36
W Isaiah 50:4-9a Psalm 70 (1) Hebrews 12:1-3 John 13:21-32
Th Exodus 12:1-4 [5-10] 11-14 Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19 (13) 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 John 13:1-17, 31b-35
F Isaiah 52:13—53:12 Psalm 22 (1) Hebrews 10:16-25 John 18:1—19:42
Sa Genesis 1:1–2:4a Genesis 7:1-5, 11-18, 8:6-18, 9:8-13
Genesis 22:1-18 Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21 Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21 Isaiah 55:1-11 Proverbs 8:1-8, 19-21; 9:4b-6 Ezekiel 36:24-28 Ezekiel 37:1-14 Zephaniah 3:14-20 Jonah 1:1–2:1 Isaiah 61:1-4, 9-11 Daniel 3:1-29