Focused Like A Laser

Today’s guest speaker is Rev. Jim Agnew.
 
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Welcome and Morning Greeting

VOTUM and SALUTATION:

INTROIT: HYMN: “You Servants of God, Your Master Proclaim” 

CALL TO WORSHIP: God loves us with a steadfast love. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so! God loves us so much he gave us His Son. Let us believe and have eternal life! God loves us with a great love, rich in mercy. Let us have faith to receive this grace! Give thanks to the Lord, for God is good.

INVOCATION

CALL TO CONFESSION: The good news is this, Christ came into the world to save sinners. Let us therefore open ourselves to His saving love as we humbly confess our sins, and in faith receive cleansing.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION: God, we have sinned against you. We have spoken against you and your servant Jesus. We have uttered lies. We have cursed you and others. We have said vulgar things. We have been consumed by doubt. We have been bitten with the venom of hatred in our world. We have oppressed the helpless. We have been intolerant of others. We have delighted in violence. We have spent money foolishly. Please, Lord God, forgive us our transgressions, that we may be healed of our sin.
Time of Reflection

ASSURANCE OF PARDON: Hear now the loving truth of God: God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Those who believe in Him are not condemned. For, those who have received and believe in Him are justified and forgiven through Him.

HYMN: “To God Be the Glory” 

APOSTLE’S CREED

CHILDREN’S SERMON

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION

SCRIPTURE LESSON 
Old Testament: Numbers 21:4-9
New Testament: John 3:14-21 

Numbers 21:4-9

The Bronze Snake
4 They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; 5 they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!”

6 Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. 7 The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

8 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.

​John 3:14-21

14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
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16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

SERMON: “Focused Like a Laser”

ASCRIPTION OF PRAISE

HYMN: “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” 

THE OFFERING
(Offering plates located near the door)

THE PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give God thanks and praise.

CHURCH JOYS AND CONCERNS

Birthdays: Dillon Durila, Bob Fisher 

Anniversaries: Bill and Ida Reese

ANNOUNCEMENTS - We will be having a Good Friday Service at 7:00 PM, April 2nd.

We added Emmy Higgins, 10 years old to our prayer list this past week. She was born with bowel disease and has been on our prayer list before due to several operations. She has been doing well but had a flare up this past week. Ed Horne was admitted to Montifore Hospital last Sunday evening as of Friday he was doing better, if you would like to send him a card, send it to his home and Carol will take to him. Debbie Durila requested prayers for her sister, Carolyn who was taken to ER on Thursday.

SYMPATHY To the family of Rosetta Bedillion 

Continued prayers for Roma Grose, Ruth Hampe, Susan Schively, Jimmy Davis, Judy Donaldson, Margo Johnson, Melissa Pedigo, Aaron Blake, Lisa Phillips, Mickey Gubitti, Chip Rogers, Dixie Avoila, Dennis McWreath, Chuck Warlow, Chuck Dicks, Randy Moore, Margaret Knabenshue, Janet Schively, Mary Ann Durila, Patty Nagey, Dr. Craig Fox, Karen Eisiminger, Kelley Gump, Mary Ann McFeeley, Ed Horne, Donna West, June and Keith McGill, Dianna Donaldson, Chuck Montecello, Glenn Miles, Dave Cummings, Doug Ward, Mark Knabenshue, Rick McFeeley, Deron Wood, Susan Alberti, Bryan Dunn, Dana Wilson, Marge McWreath, Tim Knabenshue, Jack Burnfield, Debbie Rugg, Reba Flowers, Cody Clifford, Frank Baker, Bill Stewart, Katelyn Allen and Carol Moore.

PASTORAL PRAYER AND THE LORD’S PRAYER 

Postlude Hymn: “The Old Rugged Cross” 

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